Can location-based mobile marketing enhance the customer experience and increase customer satisfaction and loyalty?

This study intends to explore the impact of customer experience on customer satisfaction and loyalty by trying to understand how location-based mobile marketing might enhance the customer experience. Primary data was collected from 201 smartphone users in 24 countries. Results have indicated that targeted location-based marketing positively influences customers’ experiences. Besides, the analysis has also shown a favorable impact on customers’ satisfaction and self-perceived loyalty. This suggests that location-based mobile marketing has the potential to positively add value to a customer’s experience and should therefore be considered an important tool in marketing communications.

Investigação de mercados e ações de comunicação para a promoção de marcas no mercado

O presente relatório cumpre o objetivo de expor as atividades desempenhadas no estágio curricular realizado na Empresa de Cervejas da Madeira. Para inserir ao leitor no contexto, começo o relatório apresentando a empresa de acolhimento e o departamento do marketing, no qual desenvolvi as minhas funções, depois efetuo um enquadramento teórico com o fim de sustentar a nível conceptual as tarefas executadas, para de seguida fazer um enquadramento prático e narrar cada uma das ações desenvolvidas. O relatório de estágio pretende explicar as ações de comunicação de marketing realizadas, e associá-las aos conceitos teóricos do marketing, bem como expor as competências práticas adquiridas no âmbito dos estudos de mercado, marketing direto, publicidade, promoção de vendas, relações públicas, e meios sociais; da mesma maneira que pretende expor de maneira conclusiva as dificuldades sentidas durante o período de estágio, e as aprendizagens obtidas.

Integrated communications strategy for mylabel

Integrated Communication Strategy for MyLabel Following paper presents Integrated Communication Strategy for Continente’s private label brand of cosmetics MyLabel. The main purpose of the project is to position MyLabel as venture brand which will gain strong market position in order to compete with the manufacturer brands. Therefore, based on the created brand equity model for the venture cosmetic brand, MyLabel will be approached from the branding perspective in order to improve perceived quality and consecutively, build brand recognition and credibility. In this respect, integrated communication strategy includes some of the branding tactics and marketing communication mix. Thereafter, MyLabel will be transformed into the sub-brand MyBeauty, which can exploit opportunities given by the new market image of retailers’ brands and gain special, unique position in the market.

Zara: Marketing in Fast Fashion: A case-study

Zara was founded in 1975 by Amancio Ortega Gaona, soon becoming the largest and most successful chain of the Galician group Inditex (Industria de Diseño Textil) and a pioneer of the rising fashion category of Fast Fashion. Its innovative vertically-integrated strategies, combined with its emphasis on quality and demand-based offer have shaped the world of fashion and brought forth many questions on its future sustainability and growth. Zara has always relied on its store network for advertising its product offer; allowing its garments to “speak for themselves”. With the continued pressure felt in the industry, management has pressed some concerns about future company growth and creative, innovating solutions must be implemented to guarantee Zara’s future growth. The case-study narrative focuses on these issues and leaves readers with an open question regarding what decision to implement.