The use of metaphors as the main marketing strategy in psychotropic drug advertising in journals and the quality of information provided in these advertisements has been criticised. We investigated marketing strategies and information provision in advertisements appearing in three different psychiatric journals. The majority of advertisements in two of the journals used metaphors as their main ...

The concept of “alignment” – between IS strategy and business strategy has become widely recognized as an important determinant of information systems success. Alignment is also an important consideration in the marketing domain, although there it usually concerns alignment between the organization and its customers. This study examines alignment between the IS and marketing functions. Field in...

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...

To understand the consumer is the prerequisite for the enterprise to enter the consumer market. With the market competition intensified, Traditional marketing strategy is difficult to achieve the expected goal of the enterprise. It needs new marketing theory to guide the market and satisfy the demand. In this paper, the sales of baking products are taken for an example in which 425 questionnair...

The business performance and economic profit of the firm can be summarized in market share. One of the most important aims of firms is to enhance market share to achieve greater scale in its operations and improve profitability. Due to this, managers always want to expand their market share. Market share responds to elements of marketing strategy and one of the important items that affect marke...

In epidemiology, an epidemic is defined as the spread of an infectious disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time. In the marketing context, a message is viral when it is broadly sent and received by the target market through person-to-person transmission. This specific marketing communication strategy is commonly referred as viral marketing. Due to ...

In epidemiology, an epidemic is defined as the spread of an infectious disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time. In the marketing context, a message is viral when it is broadly sent and received by the target market through person-to-person transmission. This specific marketing communication strategy is commonly referred as viral marketing. Due to ...

Learning about customers takes place through relevant dialogues with those customers, also known as customer relationship management (CRM). As relationships develop, information about the customer is gathered in the firm’s customer information systems (CIS): the content, processes, and assets associated with gathering and moving customer information throughout the firm. This research develops a...