Building brand loyalty has become more important, yet more difficult to achieve in today's marketplace. This research investigates a possible avenue for building brand loyalty that is not directly related to the marketing of the product – attracting individual investors in the brand's...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to provide an empirical examination of the role of the salesperson in the new product/service development process. Design/methodology/approach – A survey was mailed to 2,650 sales managers representing US firms across the nation, and the resulting...

The development process for new products is critically dependent on customer‐generated new product ideas. Although several conduits exist for identifying and communicating these ideas, by far the most productive one is the organization’s salesforce. While the integral role of salespeople as...

Observes that traditional retail, catalog, and online‐only businesses face a critical decision – to accept a new, yet unrefined business model that includes multiple channels or to retain their single channel model and risk becoming obsolete and left behind by new, multi‐channel...

Knowledge about the external environment is essential for an organization to remain competitive in the marketplace. To this end, a marketing information system (MKIS) can be used as a powerful tool for translating raw data into useful information to assist managers in making strategic and...

As consumer marketers have become increasingly disenchanted with traditional “shotgun” mass‐media approaches to reaching customers, database marketing has emerged as the answer to marketers’ woes. Despite its widespread use by direct marketers, database marketing is relatively new to...