Content marketing is now a firmly established discipline in online marketing. But how exactly does content marketing work? What are the consequences for strategic content planning and what does valid content marketing controlling look like? This book goes beyond the usual tips on how to implement content marketing by asking what the fundamental effect of content marketing is on companies' customers and prospects. The author not only describes the requirements and procedures for the strategic design of content marketing, but also presents a comprehensive content marketing controlling framework based on the analyzed impact mechanisms. With this book, marketing managers receive a theoretical foundation of the discipline of content marketing as well as numerous recommendations for successful implementation in companies.

Content marketing is now a firmly established discipline in online marketing. But how can it have a targeted effect if the products and company services are not even its communication content? What are the consequences for strategic content planning and valid content marketing controlling? This book goes beyond the usual tips for implementing content marketing by asking what the fundamental effects of content marketing are. To this end, an advertising impact model for content marketing is presented. The author not only describes the psychological mechanisms behind this, but also derives very practical requirements and procedures for the successful, strategic design of content marketing. Based on the analyzed mechanisms of action, a comprehensive content marketing controlling framework is then presented. This book provides content marketing managers, students and content producers with a theoretical foundation for the discipline of content marketing as well as numerous recommendations for successful practical work in the company. The author Thomas Hörner is a consultant, author, speaker and university lecturer specialized in e-commerce and strategic online marketing. He has been dealing with these topics professionally for over 25 years, has published several books on the subject since 2005, and has been teaching at the FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management for more than ten years. He combines well-founded background knowledge and experience from marketing and business management, business psychology as well as software and technology. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.

This book examines issues and implications of digital and social media marketing for emerging markets. These markets necessitate substantial adaptations of developed theories and approaches employed in the Western world. The book investigates problems specific to emerging markets, while identifying new theoretical constructs and practical applications of digital marketing. It addresses topics such as electronic word of mouth (eWOM), demographic differences in digital marketing, mobile marketing, search engine advertising, among others. A radical increase in both temporal and geographical reach is empowering consumers to exert influence on brands, products, and services. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and digital media are having a significant impact on the way people communicate and fulfil their socio-economic, emotional and material needs. These technologies are also being harnessed by businesses for various purposes including distribution and selling of goods, retailing of consumer services, customer relationship management, and influencing consumer behaviour by employing digital marketing practices. This book considers this, as it examines the practice and research related to digital and social media marketing.

The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of various literatures related to consumer search for information, and its effect on markets. Normative models of consumer search prior to purchase, and of consumer search through experience, are reviewed first. Models of consumer consideration set formation are also outlined. These models are generally based on consumers balancing the costs and benefits of search, which implies that search should be limited if it is costly. The extensive empirical literature on consumer search, which is reviewed next, does indicate that search is limited. The third major section of this review discusses the effect of search on market equilibrium, and market forces related to the supply of information. These include models of how advertising, retailing, and the Internet become organized to facilitate consumer search. The review concludes with a discussion of overall findings and suggestions for further research.

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The 'Handbook of Marketing' presents a major retrospective and prospective overview of the field of marketing when many of the traditional boundaries and domains within marketing have been subject to change.