advertising appeal plays a significant role in the execution of advertising. in service advertising, they are of more importance because of the peculiar characteristics of services. this study attempts to investigate the impact of emotional and rational appeal on service advertising. this study also studies the impact of typology of service as a moderating variable in the relation of advertisin...

Advertising appeal plays a significant role in the execution of advertising. In service advertising, they are of more importance because of the peculiar characteristics of services. This study attempts to investigate the impact of emotional and rational appeal on service advertising. This study also studies the impact of typology of service as a moderating variable in the relation of advertisin...

Online advertising has become increasingly popular among SMEs in service industries, and thousands of service advertisements are published on the Internet every day. However, there is a huge barrier between service-provider-oriented service information publishing and service-customer-oriented service information discovery, which causes that service consumers hardly retrieve the published servic...

Asymmetrically positioned retailers, who vary in the quality/in-store service offered, are increasingly using promotional advertising—the practice of advertising sale prices on familiar merchandise lines—to compete for customers who are willing to comparison shop. The objective of this paper is to examine the role of promotional advertising for stores that vary in their quality positioning in c...

The emergence of Internet advertising brings about an economic and efficient marketing means for small and medium enterprises in service industries. Every day, massive service advertising information is published over the Internet. Nevertheless, on the other side, service consumers find it difficult to quickly and precisely retrieve their desired services. This problem is partly caused by the u...

Service description in a distributed system allows system components to know about one another and to make intelligent decisions regarding request routing and propagation. The paper discusses service description model used in a distributed system for Web search and search-based advertising. A service description consists of content description (terms), attribute set, and a number of service par...

New media, e.g. the internet, are no longer just the playground for “online-freaks”, firms have recognized the chances offered by online communication. An empirical study, conducted by the LudwigMaximilians-University of Munich, Germany, reveals that service industries (mainly financial service providers) regard online advertising as very important (Schwaiger 1998). When asked about future impo...

This paper presents an advertising framework to ensure the targeted advertisement service for heterogeneous consumer devices with different capabilities and subscribers with different preferences by providing advertisement content selection and filtering mechanism in real time. To support scalable advertisement service in multi-screen service environment, we suggest a new advertising framework ...

Lemma 2. Let c < c' and k < k'. Under the advertising model, if a buyer with cost c' participates in the platform, the buyer with cost c also participates in the platform. If a seller with cost k' participates in the platform, the seller with cost k also participates in the platform. Moreover, if the seller with k' participates in the advertising service, the seller with k also participates in ...