Books in the Advances in Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, and E-Services series

To gain the most competitive edge, marketers must continually optimize their promotional strategies. While the adult population is a prominent target, there is significant market potential for young consumers as well. This volume presents a dynamic overview of the best practices for marketing products that target children as consumers and analyses the most effective promotional strategies.

Explores the latest promotional trends, business models, and challenges within the luxury goods market. Focusing on strategies for achieving competitive advantage, new market development, as well as the role of the media in luxury brand building, this publication is designed for use by business professionals, researchers, and graduate-level students.

To survive in today's competitive business environment, marketing professionals must look to develop innovative methods of reaching their customers and stakeholders. This title explores the use of social networking and other online media in marketing communications, including both best practices and common pitfalls, to provide comprehensive coverage of the topic.

Blurring the lines between advertisements and editorial content, branded marketing provides advertisers and consumers with highly engaging media content that benefits them both. This title provides an interdisciplinary approach to connecting with the consumer through branding strategies in the entertainment and media fields.

The key to any marketing strategy is finding a way to reach and appeal to the consumer. In the case of a diverse consumer pool, marketers must strive to direct their promotional efforts to appeal to a global customer base. This title explores the strategies associated with promoting products and services to a culturally-diverse target market.

As technology continues to drive innovation and impact societies across multiple national boundaries and cultures, new approaches towards marketing products must be created and implemented to be successful in an era of hypercompetition. This title provides in depth discussion on tactics for improving existing products while inventing completely new products and product categories.

Explores a range of topics that contribute to understanding consumers' behaviour in new computer-aided retailing environments, and how this influences buying behaviour while providing useful knowledge on the management of these new technologies and on the management of the digital contents as a reliable teaching resource for teachers and researchers.