I consider a setting where firms can ask their salespeople to spend time and effort persuading customers. The equilibrium often features heterogeneity, with some salespeople being asked to persuade customers while others are not. Persuasive messages can either increase or decrease welfare, with price and quantity data generally being insufficient to determine whether welfare rises or falls. If ...

Internet marketing enables new forms of vertical communication and marketing between suppliers and customers in a traditional marketing sense, and also generates the potential for horizontal networks of customers interacting with each other to share information and experiences about specific products and services. Marketers have always used promotional activities such as advertising and product...

This study examined E-marketing strategies and performance of small medium-sized enterprises: A new-normal agenda. It aimed to explore the effects social media marketing, online advertising, email marketing on SMEs in era. The adopted a cross-sectional survey research design. used structured questionnaire obtain primary data from 295 operators SMEs. hypotheses developed for were statistically t...

Media multitasking competes with television advertising for consumers’ attention, but it also may facilitate immediate and measurable response to some advertisements. This paper explores whether and how television advertising influences online shopping. We construct a massive dataset spanning $3.4 billion in spending by 20 brands, measures of brands’ website traffic and transactions, and ad con...

If tobacco advertising and promotion increase cigarette consumption, they are issues for public health policy. Although public health advocates assert that tobacco advertising does increase cigarette consumption, there is a significant empirical literature that finds little or no effect of tobacco advertising on smoking. In this chapter, these empirical studies are examined more closely with se...

Increases of the Internet users have drastically increased the number of media via which companies promote their products. One of such media are computer games. This paper investigates the perception of secondary school students as to the ads appearing in the games as well as their opinions and the experience they have gathered up to now regarding the advertising in the computer games. The firs...

In the era of globalisation and digitization, improved employment access, high female literacy rate and exposure to electronic media has laid a lot of importance to marketing communications in shaping the consumer buying behavior in skin care products. In this research study impact of advertising and sales promotions on consumer buying behavior in skin care products has been analysed. This pape...

This thesis focuses on the planning, scheduling, and pricing of ad slots in technology-enabled modes of advertising, including webpage banner ads, video games, electronic outdoor billboards, and the next generation of digital TV. This work contributes to practice by being the first academic work to rigorously study the scheduling of dynamic in-game advertising; contributes to the body of theory...

This chapter surveys the literatures on advertising bans and alcohol consumption or abuse, and advertising expenditures and alcohol consumption. Studies of state-level bans of billboards are examined as well as studies of international bans that cover broadcasting media. For expenditures, the survey concentrates on econometric methods and the existence of an industry advertising-sales response ...