Directions for Improving Marketing Strategy

A new marketing strategy map for direct marketing

Direct marketing is one of the most effective marketing methods with an aim to maximize the customer’s lifetime value. Many cost-sensitive learning methods which identify valuable customers to maximize expected profit have been proposed. However, current cost-sensitive methods for profit maximization do not identify how to control the defection probability while maximizing total profits over th...

Mobile Marketing: From Marketing Strategy to Mobile Marketing Campaign Implementation

Over the past few years, mobile marketing has generated an increasing interest among academics and practitioners. While numerous studies have provided important insights into the mobile marketing, our understanding of this topic of growing interest and importance remains deficient. Therefore, the objective of this article is to provide a comprehensive framework intended to guide research effort...

Marketing Strategy Models *

Many of the models and approaches outlined in other chapters of this book address single marketing issues (promotional spending, pricing, salesforce deployment, etc.) within the context of any organization where other factors are assumed constant. For the most part, such approaches are 'bottom-up', and closely akin to the operational philosophy of traditional ORIMS. Consider, in contrast, a lar...

Assessing Marketing Strategy Performance

A marketing strategy for a nursing college.

The objective of this study is to explore and describe a marketing strategy for a nursing college. An explorative and descriptive research design, within the context of a nursing college and affiliated hospitals, was followed. A literature study of marketing models was undertaken and the Delphi-method was utilised to determine the contribution of marketing staff and the possible content of a ma...