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Tichindelean Mihai
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DISCOVERING SOCIAL MEDIA BEHAVIOR PATTERNS IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THE MARKETING STRATEGY IN THE CURRENT CHAOTIC ENVIRONMENT
2012
Marketing used to imply paying for your target audience's attention. Nowadays, with the development of inbound marketing, marketers have to attract customers with valuable and useful information that will make them eager to buy. The ever-evolving technology has lead to an intense focus on inbound marketing, in its many forms, in order to lower marketing costs and gain a position in the social web. In this context, this paper explores how companies can benefit from social media marketing by understanding how much of their time customers spend on social media, and which platforms do they find the most engaging.
CAUSE RELATED MARKETING – TRUE HEART-FELT CORPORATE BENEVOLENCE?
2011
Nowadays, globally, consumers’ expectations have reached a new high, as they expect companies to act responsibly in changing the world. More than often these expectations are not met solely out of the kindness and generosity of corporations, but they are mixed in with corporate social responsibility programs and cause-related marketing. Consumers want more of the products and services they buy to support worthy social and environmental issues.
RELATIONSHIP MARKETING - A CLIENT RELATIONSHIP LIFECYCLE PERSPECTIVE - THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON THE CLIENT REGAINING PHASE
2015
The purpose of this paper is to detail the relationship marketing theory by considering the client relationship lifecycle perspective, in general, and the regaining/dissolution phase, in particular. According to the specific literature, the last phase of a client-company relationship can either improve (re-winning or regaining phase) or end the relationship (dissolution phase). In this regard, the author presents the motives for which a client ends his relationship with the company and the means which the company can use in order to reduce the customer churn rate. Moreover, forms of the clients' complaining and revenge behaviour are described, as well as the companies' alternatives for mana…
THE USE OF REGRESSION ANALYSIS IN MARKETING RESEARCH
2012
The purpose of the paper is to illustrate the applicability of the linear multiple regression model within a marketing research based on primary, quantitative data. The theoretical background of the developed regression model is the value-chain concept of relationship marketing. In this sense, the authors presume that the outcome variable of the model, the monetary value of one purchase, depends on the clients’ expectations regarding seven dimensions of the company’s offer. The paper is structured in two parts. In the first part, a brief literature review enumerates the main multivariate data analysis methods used in marketing research and describes the general linear multiple regression mo…
MOTIVATION AND MOTIVES - DRIVER AND REASON OF CONSUMER'S BUYING BEHAVIOR
2013
The purpose of the paper is to understand and measure consumer's motives as part of the complex mental structure which has as result a certain buying behavior. To achieve this goal, the authors structured the paper in two parts: the first part contains a literature review regarding the concepts of motivation and motives, while the second part tries to measure and explain several dimensions of buying motives by using a statistical analysis tool - exploratory factor analysis.
THE IMPORTANCE OF ESTABLISHING CUSTOMER EXPERIENCES
2012
Recently, companies have apprehended the fact that customers want more than merely products or services and have proceeded in providing value creation through customer experiences. Experience marketing has emphasized the need to stimulate, entertain and affect consumers at an emotional level in order to create the premises for an experience in consumption. The repercussions for the experience marketing approach can range from brand advocacy, word-of-mouth, to loyalty and motivation to buy such an experience. Therefore, companies need to manage these experiences and pay attention to the moments of truth the customer has with the organization in question.
ACHIEVING EMPLOYEE SATISFACTION BY PURSUING SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES
2013
Internal marketing is based on the satisfaction of employees that eventually leads to the retention and attraction of the best employees that help a company succeed in a highly competitive globalized environment. In the context of internal marketing, sustainability would translate into a triple advantage of employee satisfaction, long-term sustainable profit and a durable planet with less pollution. For a more complete vision of the practice of internal marketing in ten global companies, we researched the satisfaction of employees from two perspectives: current satisfaction at work and motivation to work for the current company over the next three years, as evidence of the present satisfact…
PURSUING A CUSTOMER-DRIVEN APPROACH FOR INNOVATION AND MARKETING EXCELLENCE
2011
Nowadays, innovation goes so much further than merely products. In order to thrive in this extremely competitive business environment a company needs to innovate its technologies, its business strategies, its business models, and by innovating in research. It is also about reinventing or building new markets in order to meet, satisfy and delight untapped consumer needs, wants, and desires. However, considering the new opportunities and threats that Internet, globalization, and hypercompetition have on an organization’s activity regarding selecting and executing the right ideas, right products, and delivering them through the right channels in record time, at the right prices, while promotin…