We study the optimal levels of advertising and promotion budgets in dynamic markets with brand equity as a mediating variable. To this end, we develop and estimate a state-space model based on the Kalman filter that captures the dynamics of brand equity as influenced by its drivers that include a brand’s advertising and sales promotion expenditures. By integrating the Kalman filter with the ran...

How do competitors react to each other’s price-promotion and advertising actions? How do these reactions influence the net sales impact we observe? We answer these questions by performing a large-scale empirical study of the short-run and long-run reactions to promotion and advertising shocks in over 400 consumer product categories, over a four-year time span. Competitive reaction can be passiv...

ABSTRACT
 At present the cosmetics industry in Indonesia has increased by 20% 2017, so competition cosmetic is quite tight. There are many ways that companies can do marketing their products, namely through personal selling, selling it certain requires workers to carry out these activities, one of which using a Sales Promotion Girl.
 The aims this research are: 1). To find how role Gi...

ABSTRACT. In order to promote web sales, companies conducting electronic commerce are constantly seeking viable and efficient ways to increase web traffic. One approach is to build consumers’ trust, and ultimately to increase web sales. Many business-to-consumer online merchants follow this approach and display trust-promoting seals on their websites. However, whether these seals really fulfill...