We measure the effectiveness of competitive advertising on brand search using alarge-scale, quasi-experimental ad allocation on Bing. Competitors are able to stealtraffic from the focal brand, and they steal an order of magnitude more clicks if the focalbrand's link is exogenously removed from...

Advertising has crucial role in todays competitive marketing world. This research studies two important persuasive processes often employed in the management of businesses; Creative Advertising and Marketing Management. Creative Advertising and Marketing Management is necessary in order to have...

Purpose of this paper is to offer a pragmatic tool for management and marketing practitioners in small businesses. The name of the tool is Prioritized Action for Marketing Improvements (PAMI). This work gives an overview of marketing and strategy processes in small businesses and a brief...

In article some results of research received by the author of some the Moscow small enterprises are analyzed. Under a critical corner of sight activity on support of SME in Russia is considered. Problems of small business are formulated and ranged.

Changing economic epi-centre from the west towards the east is accompanying the luxury goods markets and the emerging Chinese market is becoming impossible to overlook for the luxury goods brands. Potential purchasers buying process of conspicuous and hedonic values enabled Luxury goods differ...

From fantasy football to virtual professors, the Internet is a key concept in marketing education — and the learning process. This literature review and gap analysis investigates the recent publications concerning the Internet and marketing education in The Journal of Marketing Education. The...

In this paper the importance of word of mouth for marketing management in the twenty-first century will be discussed. After a short introduction, there will be a focus on the demarcations and problems of traditional marketing. Then, in the third section, word of mouth (WOM) and word-of-mouth...

Numerous studies confirmed the positive impact of Market Orientation (MO) upon performance. However, MO as a sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) is still questionable and few previous studies investigated this issue. By aggregating a sample of 1175 multi-source informants from 60 firms, we...

The marketing mix paradigm, in its famous version of the 4Ps, went all the way through the evolution of marketing theory: from the marketing concept, through relationship marketing, to digital economy, being object of discussion both in academic literature and managerial practice. If it is a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the marketing challenges facing the Nigerian movie industry – Nollywood. The paper also attempts to make a case for due recognition to this multimillion dollar industry in management research as opposed to being pigeonholed in the domain of...