Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Marketing - Research

This book brings together the state of the art and current debates in the field of formative research, and examines many of the innovative methods largely overlooked in the available literature. This book will help social marketing to move beyond surveys and focus groups.

The book addresses the needs of social marketing academics and practitioners alike by providing a robust and critical academic discussion of cutting-edge research methods, while demonstrating at the same time how each respective method can help us arrive at a deeper understanding of the issues that social marketing...

This book brings together current innovative methods and approaches to segmentation and outlines why segmentation is needed to support more effective social marketing program design. It presents a variety of segmentation approaches alongside case studies of their application in various social marketing contexts.

The book extends the use of segmentation in social marketing, which will ultimately lead to more effective and better-tailored programs that deliver change for the better. As such, it offers a detailed handbook on how to conduct state-of-the-art segmentation, and provides a...

This book addresses the emerging field of neuromarketing, which, at its core, aims to better understand the impact of marketing stimuli by observing and interpreting human emotions. It includes contributions from leading researchers and practitioners, venturing beyond the tactics and strategies of neuromarketing to consider the ethical implications of applying powerful tools for data collection. The rationale behind neuromarketing is that human decision-making is not primarily a conscious process. Instead, there is increasing evidence that the willingness to buy products and services is an...

This book offers a toolkit of methods and technologies to undertake qualitative research on digital spaces. This "Digital Ethnography" is unlike commonly used traditional methodological strategies, which are "retrofitted" to digital spaces. Instead, this book offers researchers a set of "digitally native" tools that are designed for virtual communities.

Thanks to a broad range of cases including Louis Vuitton, YouTube and the concept of hipsterism, this text illustrates the practical applications of techniques and tools over the most popular social media environments.