Marketing and Customer Strategy

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Confused about your brand? You might not be but your consumers certainly are...
Author(s): Professor Vince Mitchell is interviewed by Dr Caroline Wiertz
Topic: Marketing and Customer Strategy Industry: Consumer and Retail Type: Video and Podcast

Consumer confusion is a strange phenomenon within the business world, and Vincent-Wayne Mitchell, Professor of Consumer Marketing at Cass Business School, is the "absolute authority" on the subject. This is a video Q and A with Vince Mitchell conducted by Caroline Wiertz. Both are Cass Experts. Inculded is the transcript and a summary of the key points.

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Updated: 06/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 769 | Embedded playable media content

Conceptualizing and measuring the monetary value of brand extensions: the case of motion pictures
Author(s): Thorsten Hennig-Thurau and Caroline Wiertz, Cass Business School
Topic: Marketing and Customer Strategy Industry: Creative Industries Type: Video and Podcast

Conceptualizing and measuring the monetary value of brand extensions:the case of motion pictures

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Updated: 06/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 672 | Embedded playable media content

The effect of consumer confusion proneness on word of mouth, trust and customer satisfaction
Author(s): Gianfranco Walsh, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany, Vince Mitchell, Cass Business School
Topic: Marketing and Customer Strategy Industry: Consumer and Retail Type: Research Papers

This paper looks at the implications of product confusion among consumers. When presented with a large choice or a range of products that present themselves too similarly, consumers can become prone to confusion.

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Updated: 06/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 26

Social capital production in a virtual P3 community
Author(s): Charla Mathwick, The School of Business Administration, Portland State University, Caroline Wiertz, Cass Business School, Ko de Ruyter, Maastricht University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Topic: Marketing and Customer Strategy Industry: Communications and High Tech Type: Research Papers

Consumers usually derive value via individual transactions, from the use value of the information, goods and services that they obtain. However, in their article "Social Capital Production in a Virtual P3 Community," Caroline Wiertz, senior lecturer in marketing at Cass Business School, City University, London, and her co-authors, Charla Mathwick and Ko de Ruyter suggest that, consumers are enhancing the value from individual transactions, and obtaining additional value from the social aspects of participating in a group such as an online community or social network.

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Updated: 03/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 453

Annuities and accessibilility: how the industry can empower consumers to make rational choices
Author(s): David Blake, Debbie Harrison, Cass Business School, Alistair Byrne, University of Edinburgh Business School
Topic: Marketing and Customer Strategy Industry: Insurance and Pensions Type: Research Papers

The report calls on the Financial Services Authority, specialist annuity advisers, trustees and employers to respond to key recommendations that could transform the way consumers in the mass market buy their lifetime annuities from insurance companies.

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Updated: 04/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 123

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