Marketing artertainment : are museums jumping on the bandwagon

The purpose of this paper is to argue that greater awareness of the traditions and innovations in marketing language, as exemplified in museum marketing, leads to enhanced ability to understand branding as a strategic tool. Successful art galleries can be thought of as branding “artertainment", actively engaged in bringing the art world and popular culture together in a competitive aesthetic arena. This paper sees branding straddling culture and linguistic criticism to look at its complex underpinnings in verbal and linguistic processes that link to larger socio-cultural issues on how brands work. It generates novel concepts and develops theory for marketers.

Educational Development in Australasia : 2010 Benchmarking Survey

In 2010, the third bi‐annual ADAPE Australasian benchmarking study was conducted to track educational development in Australia and New Zealand. Invitations to participate were sent to ADAPE’s membership of 820. Non‐members were also welcome to participate. In total, 92% of the 250 survey respondents were members of ADAPE. The 2010 Benchmarking Survey supports and extends results from 2005 and 2008. The 2010 survey was developed by taking into account participant feedback from 2008. With a view to provide the key information that participants want to know, the 2010 survey included more questions about salaries and other employment conditions; marketing and communications, especially new electronic technologies; and major gifts.

Mejora del aprendizaje orientado a proyectos con alumnos de politicas de marketing mediante el fomento de la creatividad

La aplicación del Aprendizaje Orientado a Proyectos (AOP) en la asignatura de grado "Políticas de Marketing" facilita que los alumnos adquieran la mayoría de las competencias asociadas a esta asignatura. Sin embargo, para alcanzar ciertas competencias metodológicas y de carácter social, este tipo de técnica debería complementarse con otras actividades dirigidas específicamente a superar ciertas carencias identificadas con frecuencia en el alumnado actual. Para superar estos obstáculos, en esta comunicación se propone añadir al marco de trabajo que se venía utilizando en la asignatura hasta el curso pasado, basado en AOP tradicional, dos actividades adicionales que permitan estimular el pensamiento creativo de los alumnos, potenciar sus capacidades imaginativas e incrementar sus facultades para la relación de ideas y conceptos. Éstas son un taller de creatividad y una visita a un museo de arte contemporáneo Por otro lado, para involucrar al alumno durante las presentaciones de los portafolios y hacerle partícipe en la valoración de los trabajos presentados, se introduce una tercera actividad adicional consistente en la creación de un concurso de ideas

Relationship management, the web and organisation performance in Australasia

Relationship management practices, both traditional and employing the Web, were investigated and hypotheses tested concerning the influence of such practices on organisational performance. The reported study, conducted with a sample of Australasian organisations, finds that traditional and online relationship management constructs are discrete, and finds no significant direct influence of the use of relationship management on organisational performance, regardless of whether traditional means of relationship management are employed or the Web is used. It is also reported that environmental turbulence does not moderate this relationship.

Role of the web in marketing and organisational performance

This doctoral study makes a unique contribution by examining both the integration of the Web in marketing, and the influence of this integration on organisational performance. The findings support the view that the marketing function adds value to organisations, but that the Web is not as fully utilised as it might be in Australasia.

Relacionamento com médicos como estratégia de marketing da indústria farmacêutica

O marketing de relacionamento (MR) é uma das principais formas de melhoria no gerenciamento das relações das empresas com seus clientes e também parceiros. Definido como um conjunto de atividades com o objetivo de desenvolver e dar continuidade às relações entre a empresa e seus clientes, o MR trata da criação de uma base de relacionamento e integração em todas as fases do relacionamento. Na indústria farmacêutica, caracterizada por estratégias mercadológicas particulares, entre as quais se destaca a mudança de foco do consumidor final para o médico (que prescreve o medicamento), o MR é utilizado de forma constante, sendo disponibilizados altos investimentos nesta área. Com base neste contexto, este trabalho busca investigar a relação entre os incentivos da indústria farmacêutica, caracterizados pelas práticas de MR, e a quantidade de receitas prescritas pelos médicos. Assim, o objetivo central da pesquisa é identificar se o investimento desta indústria em MR junto aos médicos faz com que receite mais o produto. Para tanto, foi realizada uma pesquisa exploratória, utilizando dados secundários de um grande laboratório farmacêutico de nível mundial. Estes dados referem-se a uma amostra de 98 médicos de uma determinada especialidade que foram atendidos pelo Laboratório. Foram testadas as variáveis referentes às práticas de MR – visitas, amostras, congressos, coquetéis e outros, utilizando-se testes de regressão linear. Os resultados comprovaram que os médicos que recebem mais incentivos prescrevem mais receitas. Também foi verificado que existe uma relação positiva entre as práticas de MR e a quantidade de receitas prescritas, sendo que a concessão de inscrições em congressos influencia este resultado de forma mais significativa.

How does the tobacco industry attempt to influence marketing regulations? A systematic review

BACKGROUND: The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control makes a number of recommendations aimed at restricting the marketing of tobacco products. Tobacco industry political activity has been identified as an obstacle to Parties' development and implementation of these provisions. This study systematically reviews the existing literature on tobacco industry efforts to influence marketing regulations and develops taxonomies of 1) industry strategies and tactics and 2) industry frames and arguments. METHODS: Searches were conducted between April-July 2011, and updated in March 2013. Articles were included if they made reference to tobacco industry efforts to influence marketing regulations; supported claims with verifiable evidence; were written in English; and concerned the period 1990-2013. 48 articles met the review criteria. Narrative synthesis was used to combine the evidence. RESULTS: 56% of articles focused on activity in North America, Europe or Australasia, the rest focusing on Asia (17%), South America, Africa or transnational activity. Six main political strategies and four main frames were identified. The tobacco industry frequently claims that the proposed policy will have negative unintended consequences, that there are legal barriers to regulation, and that the regulation is unnecessary because, for example, industry does not market to youth or adheres to a voluntary code. The industry primarily conveys these arguments through direct and indirect lobbying, the promotion of voluntary codes and alternative policies, and the formation of alliances with other industrial sectors. The majority of tactics and arguments were used in multiple jurisdictions. CONCLUSIONS: Tobacco industry political activity is far more diverse than suggested by existing taxonomies of corporate political activity. Tactics and arguments are repeated across jurisdictions, suggesting that the taxonomies of industry tactics and arguments developed in this paper are generalisable to multiple jurisdictions and can be used to predict industry activity.

Visitor Relationship Management (VRM) - Repeat Visitation Opportunities for Destination Marketing Organisations

In competitive tourism markets the consumer-traveller is spoilt by choice of available destinations. Successfully differentiating a destination and getting noticed at decision time is arguably the focus of activities by destination marketing organisations (DMOs). In pursuit of differentiation, three emergent themes in the marketing literature during the past decade have been branding, integrated marketing communications (IMC), and customer relationship management (CRM) a fundamental goal of each being stimulating customer loyalty. However there has been little attention given to destination loyalty in the tourism literature. The purpose of this paper is to report an exploratory investigation of visitor relationship management (VRM) by DMOs. Based on interviews with the management of 11 regional tourism organisations (RTO) in Queensland, Australia, the opportunities for, and immediate challenges of, VRM are discussed. While each RTO recognised the potential for VRM, none had yet been able to develop a formal approach to engage in meaningful dialogue with previous visitors from their largest market.

Consumer appraisals of mobile marketing communications

This paper reports on a study that investigates the emotions elicited from appraising SMS-based mobile marketing (m-marketing) communications under three marketing conditions: product consistency, incentives and permission giving. Results from the experimental design show that appraising m-marketing communications elicits both single emotions and mixed emotions; that is, a mixture of positive and negative emotions in the same response. Additionally, the results show that the influence of specific marketing conditions may increase or reduce the intensity of the emotions elicited. This study contributes to marketing practice by examining consumer appraisals of m-marketing communications under different combinations of marketing conditions. The results provide insights into which emotions are likely to be elicited as a result, and how a specific marketing condition might influence their levels of intensity. The study contributes to marketing theory also through combining appraisal theory with Richins (1997) consumption emotion set.