Consumers have emotional bond with the brands that are closer to their self-concept. The product involvement is consumers' perception of relevance of a product with needs, goals and consumers' self-concept. Therefore, the study aims to reconsider the role of product involvement in the...

Spanish Abstract: En el mundo globalizado actual, donde los empresarios le apuestan a posicionarse en los mercados, existe incertidumbre en la sobrevivencia de las Micro Pequeñas y Medianas Empresas (MIPYMES), las cuales aportan aproximadamente el 48% del PIB de la economía de los países, y...

To what extent did external events and news versus the candidates' own actions drive the 2016 election outcome? And were candidates misled if they focused on traditional market research versus the newer probabilistic polls? Based on the dynamic political will formation framework, the authors...

The objective of this study was to identify the characteristics of messages in photographs posted on Instagram. We analysed four famous sports brands to determine which type of photographs generate the greatest number of “likes” based on engagement with and admiration for a brand. The...

Buying a home is considered a major financial decision and one of the most expensive purchases an individual can ever make. While acknowledging the complex and multi-faceted due diligence that buyers usually invest before buying houses, the role of advertisements in marketing new-build homes...

Economists have long recognized that advertising has two main functions: to inform and to persuade. In the information age, the information function is obsolete, because consumers can get all the product information they want from a quick Google search. That makes virtually all advertising today...

This article analyzes the possibility of commercializing internationally the Cotija Región of Origin Cheese, by means of marketing strategies. The elaboration of daily products, is one of the principal economic activities in Mexico. The economic and social situation concerning the Cotija...

Since time immemorial, subliminal advertisement has continued to haunt the society and especially after James Vicary's experiment at New Jersey, it reached a new height. Since then, there has been much argument about whether this can be an efficient technique of marketing communications. Decades...

This article examines the use of verbal connotation and visual symbolism in the televised advertising campaign of True Match by L'Oréal (2013). It analyzes a series of three 30-second commercials of the same product using two qualitative approaches: Barthes' connotation and Pierce's symbolism....

How does freemium work as a model and in practice? This paper draws concepts from the book The Mind Share Market: The Power of an Alternative Currency, by the same author.A term increasingly used in commerce, freemium designates a business model using two products or services, or a combination...