As more and more customer-facing decisions are automated-from approving loans to pricing insurance to determine cross-sell offers-the determination of what constitutes a good decision becomes more complex. In fact, the more decisions are automated, the more potential they have for both positive and negative effects on your organization. To determine...
Research suggests that customers go through a five-stage decision-making process in any purchase, for this purpose the model diagram is given in this paper. This model is important for anyone making marketing decisions. It forces the marketer to consider the whole buying process rather than just the purchase decision (when...
Retaining customer loyalty is vital to the long-term success and profitability of your business. With industry consolidation, increasing competition, and changes in the marketplace, you need to work harder than ever to maintain a strong customer base. Improving customer loyalty is an essential element in customer retention. What You...
Harvard professors Robert Kaplan and David Norton developed the balanced scorecard to help translate vision and strategy into action. This technique can make strategic planning a core part of any business. They showed that financial analysis, which is largely a look backward over past performance, isn’t enough to guide long-term...
In an increasingly multicultural marketing context, the question of the compatibility of ethical values across cultural borders has gained much in importance over the past decades. Given that more and more countries with rapid economic development are being integrated into world markets, culture needs to be understood as a multidimensional...
Vehicle fleets are a poorly understood part of the economy. They are important, though, in that they purchase a large share of light-duty vehicles, and are often targeted by governments as agents of change. This paper investigates fleet purchase behavior, using focus groups, interviews, and mail and telephone surveys. It...
Multinational corporations MNCs are scouring the globe for growth, and increasingly they are finding it in emerging markets. Real GDP is forecast to rise three times faster in Brazil, Russia, India and China (the "BRICs" economies) than in the leading developed nations over the next six years - about six...
From the executive summary: 'Without an analytical structure in place, even the most savvy marketer will have difficulty manually analyzing all of the complex information they may be gathering on customers. Thus, predictive analytics includes data mining needed to provide a clear picture of what is going to happen, in...
The article is about hiring the right marketing professional, this can be the difference between sinking and survival to your business. Sales is everything you do to get the prospect to buy your service or product. Sales usually involves tactics and logistics, and involves the prospects actual decision-making process, Marketing...
With the exponential growth in the amount of data being collected, improvements in technology, and research in machine learning, retailers are now able to reduce the ever growing difficult and complex decision making process by recruiting the efforts of data mining. Data mining is a computerized technology that uses complicated...
Selling can be defined as asking someone tobuy what is bieng offered in return for time, effort and/or money. Selling is a part of a four step process in the decision-making processlike buying, marketing, presenting, selling etc.
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DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/1c82b6/pharmaceutical_com) has announced the addition of the "Pharmaceutical Competitive Intelligence: Expanding the Role and Reach of CI" report to their offering. Pharmaceutical competitive intelligence CI helps drive decision-making processes across an organization. As a forward-thinking, proactive support function, CI influences business development...
Ketchum Launches Well-Connected, a New Health and Wellness Specialty NEW YORK, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- For marketers of brands trying to claim a stake in the health and wellness market, targeting certain consumers presents challenges, according to "Health Attitudes and Well Connections: A Ketchum Consumer Study," a...
