Service providers often offer tariff structures with several two-part tariffs that consist of a fixed fee and a usage price, such that consumers may pick the tariff they prefer. Prices of tariffs have significant impacts on service providers' profit, because they simultaneously influence...

Many advertisers hire agencies to run their search engine marketing campaigns; increasingly, they are using innovative performance-based compensation plans, in which they pay the agency a fee for each conversion (i.e., acquired customer) but require the agency to pay all search engine marketing...

This paper reports on a large-scale implementation of marketing science models to solve the bidding problem in search engine advertising. In cooperation with the online marketing agency SoQuero, we developed a fully automated bidding decision support system, PROSAD (Profit Optimizing Search...

This paper reports on a large-scale implementation of marketing science models to solve the bidding problem in search engine advertising. In cooperation with the online marketing agency SoQuero, we developed a fully automated bidding decision support system, PROSAD (Profit Optimizing Search...

Wir greifen die in der Literatur seit längerer Zeit nicht mehr betrachtete Frage der Verkaufsgebietseinteilung auf und zeigen, daß die bisherigen Vorgehensweisen zur Einteilung von Verkaufsgebieten ökonomisch wenig fundiert sind, da sie nicht notwendigerweise zu Verkaufsgebieten führen, die...