BACKGROUND Alcohol education aims to increase knowledge on the harm related to alcohol, and to change attitudes and drinking behaviour. However, little (lasting) evidence has been found for alcohol education, in changing alcohol-related attitudes and behaviour. Social marketing uses marketing techniques to achieve a social or healthy goal, and can be used in alcohol education. Social marketing ...

With social network sites growing in popularity, many organisations have started to use this platform to market themselves. However, marketing on social network sites is different from traditional marketing. Its value lies in engaging members of the social network and generating shared cultural meaning of the advertised brand rather than promoting awareness of the brand to a large number of peo...

Popularity of social marketing messages indicates the effectiveness of the corresponding marketing strategies. This research aims to discover the characteristics of social marketing messages that contribute to different level of popularity. Using messages posted by a sample of restaurants on Facebook as a case study, we measured the message popularity by the number of “likes” voted by fans, and...

T interest in social networks among marketing scholars and practitioners has sharply increased in the last decade. One social network of which network scholars increasingly recognize the unique value is the academic collaboration (coauthor) network. We offer a comprehensive database of the collaboration network among marketing scholars over the last 40 years (available at http://mktsci.pubs.inf...

Social Network Services (SNS) nowadays require marketing research study using Big Data tools. In this paper we present Sodatech platform: a monitoring and analysis tool of big data to help researchers and SNS community managers to measure effectiveness of social media marketing activities. Sodatech platform provides three functions: collect massive data from social network; analyze marketing me...

A longitudinal study of policy effect (smoke-free legislation) on smoking norms: ITC Scotland/UK Authors: Abraham Brown, Crawford Moodie, Gerard Hastings. Authors affiliations: Abraham Brown MSc, Centre for Tobacco Control Research, Institute for Social Marketing, University of Stirling, UK. Crawford Moodie PhD, Centre for Tobacco Control Research, Institute for Social Marketing, University of ...

We argue that social marketing, a strategy that uses techniques from corporate marketing to influence the behavior of target audiences, is a useful framework for thinking about motivating people to enact environmentally sustainable behaviors. We critically examine some pervasive green applications through the lens of social marketing and discuss how we might study various persuasive factors enc...

With the development of internet, some online social communities have been founded, most people, in such online social communities, have good relationships with the other people, they believe in each other and share a lot of business experience. Relational marketing, based on online social marketing, becomes an important marketing channel. In this paper, relationship quality is defined as the m...

Social commerce should make more efforts to retain existing customers. Shopping motivation which reflects the customers' behavior is one of the key factors to meet the users' needs. In order to attract customers, social commerce enterprise needs to better understand the shopping motivation. This study provided implications on social commerce business, service and consumer-oriented marketing str...