OBJECTIVES To investigate the use of planning models and social marketing planning principles within a state's central public health agency as a means for informing improved planning practices. METHODS Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 key programme planners in selected division branches, and a quantitative survey was distributed to 63 individuals responsible for p...

The desire to maintain a youthful image combined with an emerging global market with disposable income has driven the development of many new industries. The cosmeceutical industry is based on the development and marketing of products that lie between cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. Today, there are over 500 suppliers and manufacturers of cosmeceutical products, and the industry is estimated to ...

Marketing organizations often design multiple marketing campaigns to meet a variety of objectives. Marketing resources must be allocated carefully across campaigns to minimize conflicts and maximize organizational value (e.g., impact on customer lifetime value). While data-driven analytics has greatly improved the ability to predict the effect of marketing actions on individual customers, such ...

This article examines the applicability of marketing concepts to social causes and social change. Social marketing is defined as the design, implementation, and control of programs calculated to influence the acceptability of social ideas and involving considerations of product planning, pricing, communication, distribution and marketing research. Wiebe examined four social advertising campa...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Food marketing has been identified as a target for intervention in the prevention of childhood overweight and obesity within countries and globally, and promotion of healthy diets has been classified as a key strategy to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases and health inequalities. The present study aims to investigate how Vietnamese middle-class household fo...

This paper aims to locate the key schools of thought in viral marketing (VM) literature, recognise the various sub-sets within viral marketing overall area of research and to identify the different gaps in viral marketing research literature offering a summation of the existing work done so far. The paper tries to build on the existing body of literature in the field of viral marketing, its rel...

This paper explores the emergence of sponsorship-linked events as a strategy to leverage relational outcomes through sponsorship investment. The growing use of sponsorship-linked events reinforces the need to understand the potential of such leverage strategies, thus the findings contribute to the body of literature on effective sponsorship practices. Findings from semi-structured interviews wi...

O ver the years, I’ve been fortunate enough to help build a fairly diverse set of software solutions. Along the way, I’ve played various roles, including individual contributor, direct manager, and senior member of the corporate executive staff. I’ve worked in engineering, product marketing and product management, quality assurance, firstand second-line support organizations, and on technical p...

This paper investigates a method for increasing the involvement of marketing fourth year learners in academic research, by encouraging greater participation in, and commitment to, their research project in the Applied Marketing IV subject. It is assumed that greater involvement will result in a greater pass rate. The main reasons for this lack of interest were found to be a sense of incompetenc...