“Socializing†environments has created an important and critical potential power in virtual world. Recent trends in this field are social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter etc. Social networking sites are a very huge marketing environment. This marketing environment...

Services industry is a fast developing industry in Turkey that consists of many industries one of which is banking. Recently, consumer behaviour concept has gained importance in banking industry. The development of information technologies and the increased wants of bank consumers have caused to...

The aim of this study is analyze the relationship between the quality of the services provided by accounting profession members and customer satisfaction by means SERVQUAL scale. The sample of the study is the companies based in EskiÅŸehir which have bought services from certified public...

The study investigates the effects of environmental claims and claim specificity on advertisement effectiveness. An experimental study is conducted using hypothetical print advertisements for three product categories, namely laundry machines, wrist watches, and DVD players. Findings indicate...

During last years, the concept of integrated marketing communications (IMC) and it’s elements are being discussed as it has been discussed whole around the world among the communication practitioners and academicians. In the related literature about the IMC, subjects like, the differences...

Viral marketing describes any strategy that encourages people to pass on a marketing message to others, demonstrating an important potential for exponential growth in the message’s exposure and influence. Viral marketing has become one of the most effective and cost-efficient ways to...

The sponsorship is a type of communication and marketing strategy that institutions and well-known trademarks employ for the purpose of fulfilling their marketing and public relation aims veryoften. Todays, it is an important issue to reveal the effectiveness of sponsorship that is encountered...

In resent years, a brand is a powerful mean of differentiation, and that differentiation provides a significant competitive advantage for firms. Knowing how consumers assess a brand is important. For this reason, we need to determine the factors which affect to consumer-based brand equity. In...

Surprisingly little research has been done in Turkey on the reasons for which advertisers select their advertising agencies. Asurvey with 52 of Turkey’s biggest advertisers strongly affirms the importance of creativity and other aspects of the agency’s product as key criteria in...

Intangible nature of services makes it necessary to implement different advertising strategies. Academics studying on services marketing have suggested various managerial frameworks about services advertising to tangibilize the services in the minds of consumers. Presenting physical evidences of...