BACKGROUND Despite regulatory restrictions, off-label marketing of pharmaceutical products has been common in the US. However, the scope of off-label marketing remains poorly characterized. We developed a typology for the strategies and practices that constitute off-label marketing. METHODS AND FINDINGS We obtained unsealed whistleblower complaints against pharmaceutical companies filed in US...

Although leveraging is not the sponsor responsibility, a substantial number of research concluded that sponsorship effectiveness highly related to activeness sponsors leverage their investment. This discusses issues sponsorship, brand image as well strategies namely use leveraged packaging (SLP), association and co-visibility, TV emotional connections cause-related marketing (CRM). More studies...

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 ...

E-marketing strategy is normally based and built upon the traditional 4 P's (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) that forms the classic marketing mix; e-marketing’s uniqueness is created using a series of specific and relational functions that are combined with the 4P’s to form the emarketing mix elements, each of which contain associated e-marketing mix tools that are provided on business web...

a strategy that integrates an organization's marketing goals into a cohesive whole, ideally drawn from market research, focuses on the ideal product mix in order to achieve maximum profit potential; the marketing strategy is set out as a marketing plan, a good idea, method, information, object, or service that is the end result of a process and serves as a need or want satisfier. it is usually ...

Mobile marketing refers to the twoor multi-way communication and promotion of an offer between a firm and its customers using a mobile medium, device, or technology. We present the conceptual underpinnings of mobile marketing and a synthesis of the relevant literature. We identify and discuss four key issues: drivers of mobile device/service adoption, the influence of mobile marketing on custom...

Marketing mix related to the importance and contribution of the elements on the marketing mix that shows how these elements can provide a source of competitive advantage. Marketing mix strategy have high impact to the competitive advantage but each elements of marketing mix have different contribution. The objective of this paper is to examine the influence of the marketing mix to the competiti...