Online reviews are more influential than expert reviews towards marketing communication. Starting from the network reputation, this article classified online reviewers through the study of consumer reviews motivation and dominant willingness. The research deemed that the online-reviewers should be classified into Dominant egoist, Dominant altruist, Robust egoist, Robust altruist, Accommodated e...

The goal of this research is to evaluate the effect of ad rank on the performance of keyword advertising campaigns. We examined a large-scale data file comprised of nearly 7,000,000 records spanning 33 consecutive months of a major US retailer’s search engine marketing campaign. The theoretical foundation is serial position effect to explain searcher behavior when interacting with ranked ad lis...

The importance of optimal marketing communications mix decisions is well-recognized by both marketing scholars and practitioners. A significant volume of work has addressed the problem of dynamic marketing mix optimization assuming constant effectiveness of marketing instruments. However, the effectiveness of marketing communications varies over time for a variety of reasons. Moreover, due to f...

An article about the transformation of the theory and practice of marketing in terms of e-commerce and network economy. The author considers Internet Marketing as an independent marketing communication in a virtual environment. The main thesis of the article: virtual environment determines the transformation of marketing, changing methods, priorities and structure not only practice, but also th...

OBJECTIVE The present study sought to identify both the ingredients for success and the potential impediments to social marketing effectiveness for healthy eating behaviour, focusing on studies conducted over the last 10 years. DESIGN A comprehensive literature review was undertaken examining seventeen databases to identify studies reporting the use of social marketing to address healthy eati...

This paper considers how marketing can be made more appropriate in entrepreneurial contexts by proposing a conceptual model of the processes of marketing as undertaken by entrepreneurs. Although marketing is a key factor in the survival and development of business ventures, a number of entrepreneurial characteristics seem to be at variance with marketing according to the textbook. These include...

Theories of marketing and their future directions are increasingly discussed topics. A significant theme is whether we can construct a unifying logic for the marketing discipline (Vargo and Lusch 2004), or whether marketing should be seen as a theoretically pluralistic field (Möller and Halinen 2000). This issue is first addressed by examining the characteristics of marketing as a scientific do...

one of the most important behavioral aspects in relationship among the main members of marketing channel is the issue of power and dependence that here we have looked through the source of power and countervailing power and we have considered reputation independence, sale and profits and marketing role dependence. in this research relationship between the two main marketing channel members in h...

Marketing departments handles with a great volume of data which are normally task or marketing activity dependent. This requires the use of certain, and perhaps unique, specific knowledge background and framework. This article aims to introduce an almost unexplored research at marketing field: the ontological approach to the Database Marketing process. We propose a framework supported by ontolo...