Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use

and loyalty directly and indirectly through brand personality associations. Keywords: experience marketing, brand experience, customer experience management, scale development, marketing communications brand attachment) and develop a scale that can measure the strength with which a brand evokes each experience dimension. However, the experience construct is not as clearly associated with one particular basic discipline (e.g., psychology) as other brand constructs are. For…

and opportunistic strategy. “Customer Obsession”—a phrase coined by founder Jeff Bezos—has become a key principle that permeates almost every decision at Amazon, including attracting and hiring employees, job design, compensation, as well as what products and services to offer. Amazon was able to leverage this culture and strategy to become an established market leader in the e-book industry in the US. Amazon revolutionized the traditional bookselling and publishing value chain to…

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government to influence consumers’ decision-making and promote education and influence private behaviour, including through regulations, property rights, market-based mechanisms or subsidising certain activities. (The Treasury, 2010). However, individuals can also demonstrate concern for the environment by undertaking personal environment protection activities, such as recycling and reducing electricity and water consumption. In the green economy movement has emerged a new type of…

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total control of MCC SMART, 110 SMART-CENTER in Europe 1999 End of the year - 80,000 cars have been sold, and losses represent 150 millions Euros since the launch 1999 April - Rescue plan = the production process is totally rebuilt, new marketing mix, price decrease by 533 Euros for each model, new distribution network, new communication style 2000Launch of the turbo diesel (CDI) model and the cabriolet 2000End of the year - Turnover is reaching 828 millions Euros 2004 First benefits…

average scores across eight attributes: (1) innovativeness, (2) quality of management, (3) employee talent, (4) quality of products and services, (5) long-term investment value, (6) financial soundness, (7) social responsibility, and (8) use of corporate assets. These companies also have an incredible focus on using technology to reduce costs, to reduce inventory, and to speed up product delivery. For example, workers at Dell previously touched a computer 130 times during the assembly…

early 1990s. Brand equity can be regarded as a managerial concept, as a financial intangible asset, as a relationship concept or as a customer-based concept from the perspective of the individual consumer. The main asset dimensions of brand equity can be grouped into brand loyalty, brand awareness, perceived quality and brand associations. There are three alternative ways to leverage brand equity: first building it, second borrowing it, or third buying it. Brand equity can create…

In one side to observe how the larger corporation can give leaps in terms of efficiency, fast response time to market, innovate; on the other side how smaller ones can fight against the giants already in the field, with good reputation and a history behind them. Besides the jargon “People are the most valuable assets companies have“ I really though people would make the difference. And it was astounding to me realize how much difference they can make …. 3 Acknowledgments It was…