Current obstacles in the study of social media marketing include dealing with massive data and real-time updates have motivated to contribute solutions that can be adopted for viral marketing. Since information diffusion and social networks are the core of viral marketing, this article aims to investigate the constellation of diffusion methods for viral marketing. Studies on diffusion methods f...

Without sales and marketing working to produce revenue, the firm ceases to exist. Yet, given the magnitude of what’s at stake, these two functions are often at odds with one another to the detriment of performance. This article reviews previous studies that investigate conflict, collaboration, and integration between the sales and marketing functions. Next, hypotheses are developed relating ali...

The objectives of the study were to estimate costs and margins, seasonal price variation and to test market integration of egg. Primary and secondary data were used for this study. The higher marketing cost was incurred by aratdars and the lowest by retailer. On the other hand, retailers earned the highest net marketing margins. Analysis of market integration shows that egg market in Bangladesh...

This paper proposes a domain statement for strategic marketing as a field of study and delineates certain issues fundamental to the field. It also proposes a definition for marketing strategy, the focal organizational strategy construct of the field, and enumerates a number of foundational premises of marketing strategy. The domain of strategic marketing is viewed as encompassing the study of o...

MIS managers generally have not slressed Ihe marketing aspects of their operations. A more widespread concern is with the shortage of systems analyst and programmer resources. In an effort to learn how one group of MIS managers views their marketing responsibilities and practices in a shortage era, a study was conducted and the results were used lo describe both short term and long term MIS mar...

 Strategic planning aims to harness a company’s core competencies to capitalise on identified environmental opportunities and minimise or avoid environmental threats.  As marketing managers bridge the gap between company, customers, competitors and channels of distribution, they not only manage their marketing strategies, but also tend to be highly influential in business and corporate strate...

Marketing is under increased pressure to demonstrate its economic value to the firm. The challenge is exacerbated by the fact that marketing uses attitudinal (e.g. brand awareness), behavioral (e.g. brand loyalty) and financial (e.g. sales revenue) performance metrics, which, unfortunately, do not correlate highly with each other. Thus marketing initiatives could be viewed as successful by one ...

Mutual funds provide various facilities that make saving and investing simple, accessible, and affordable, by using professional management, diversification, variety of products, liquidity, affordability, convenience, and ease of record keeping. Moreover, strict government regulation and full disclosure of information makes the investments more secure in India. In Mutual fund market the key are...

While most market-oriented pricing schemes include offers of quantity discounts, their size is generally decided on arbitrarily. This article discusses the various possible marketing objectives of quantity discounts and argues that valid methods for calculating appropriate schedules should be linked to these objectives. Using a specific case study, the practical application of this approach is ...

Marketing has long had a place in the planning and management of public sector recreation. In particular, the use of market segmentation has allowed leisure providers to better understand their clients’ needs and to tailor their services to the diversity of those needs. However, the use of marketing approaches is not without controversy and is sometimes perceived to be at odds with the public s...