The nature of banking in India is passing through a transformation, due to recent changes in economic, business, legislative, technological and social environments. The pattern of individual disposable income is also changing, with the increasing prosperity of the common man, the growing...

Niche marketing isn't surprisingly still a completely formalized idea. While the niche concept is to be considered quite clearly defined, little has been said about the connected management rules that have to be significantly different from the volume markets'ones. The article, through the...

В статье анализируются возможности расширения ритейла за счет региональной составляющей населения России. Данная проблема рассматривается в аспекте апологии...

Рассматривается переход от маркетинга взаимоотношений с потребителями к маркетингу от потребителя и процесс управления на основе маркетинга от потребителей....

In contemporary consumer culture, products and brands carry cultural value that defines consumers and their relationships to their environments. To be effective in consumer marketing, electronic commerce must communicate cultural value by creating cultural presence in virtual environments that...

Strategy of outsourcing salespeople (sales promoters) to prospect the customers through inter-personal communication and develop pre-purchase arousal for products and services is being increasingly employed by the manufacturing and marketing firms. Sales promoters are deployed at strategic...

The purpose of this paper is to seek differences between the status of marketing in SMEs selling consumer goods and those sell industrial goods. The research is a field study conducted with 112 Small and medium sized enterprises located in the five biggest industrial cities of Iran. The results...

This article proposes that cross-cultural research frameworks used in international marketing should also apply to domestic marketing within culturally diverse economies. The cultural homogeneity assumption inherent in domestic consumer marketing is questioned by the existence of countries...

Relationship marketing (RM) was conceived as an approach to industrial and service markets, and was considered inappropriate in other marketing contexts. Recently, however, the domain of RM has been extended to incorporate innovative applications in mass consumer markets. Much has changed in a...

The article discusses the features of product policy in marketing. The author analyzes the objectives, functions and structural elements of product policy as a tool to promote the products in the consumer market. Particular attention is paid to the practical implementation of product policy in...