Given the vast amount of data generated by customers’ online and offline purchases, many organizations today are turning to data analytics to help design their direct marketing campaigns and introduce personalized promotions for customers. Data analytics allows companies to implement more effective market segmentation strategies, customize promotional offers, allocate marketing resources effici...

This essay explores how the concept of social marketing can be employed to change attitudes towards leprosy. Firstly, the concept of social marketing is discussed, then the attitudes that people have about leprosy, the stigma that people with leprosy and their families may face, and the detrimental effects that this can have on their lives. The effect of knowledge and education on attitudes tow...

3 (IT Dept., Amity University, India) ABSTRACT In current Business Scenario, banks use direct marketing campaigns and advertisement activities in the context of corporate reputation and brand name enhancement and to increase the sale of their new launched product by researching more improved market segments which is based on understanding customers’ behavior. The competition in market has led m...

political marketing shares many characteristics in common with marketing in the business world. in business marketing , sellers dispatch goods, services, and communications[e.g.advertising] to the market and in return, money [consumer purchases], information [consumer research], and customer loyalty are received. in political campaigns, candidates dispatch promises , favors , policy preferences...

Companies have been increasingly seeking new mechanisms for making their electronic marketing campaigns to become viral, thus obtaining a cascading recommendation effect similar to word-of-mouth. We analysed a dataset of a magazine publisher that uses email as the main marketing strategy and found out that networks emerging from those campaigns form a very sparse graph. We show that online soci...

In this article, we provide a computational simulation model which offers alternative explanations on viral marketing campaign effectiveness compared to standard aggregate diffusion models by (1) combining individual preference information and heterogeneity among individuals as well as (2) simulating differing degrees of interconnectedness among individuals within social networks. Our model pro...

Until the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was adopted in 1997, states were not expected to actively promote their public health programs for children or to encourage enrollment. But the availability of new administrative funds under SCHIP for outreach and marketing spurred states to create marketing campaigns to raise awareness about and increase involvement in SCHIP and Medic...

The increasingly vast number of marketing campaigns over time has reduced its effect on the general public. Furthermore, economical pressures and competition has led marketing managers to invest on directed campaigns with a strict and rigorous selection of contacts. Such direct campaigns can be enhanced through the use of Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Mining (DM) techniques. This paper de...

Media-related commercial marketing aimed at promoting the purchase of products and services by children, and by adults for children, is ubiquitous and has been associated with negative health consequences such as poor nutrition and physical inactivity. But, as Douglas Evans points out, not all marketing in the electronic media is confined to the sale of products. Increasingly savvy social marke...