Consumers currently place increasing importance on the values that companies represent. Modern values such as transparency, benevolence to society, sustainability and fairness are becoming more relevant, as noted by many major consulting firms among which are Nielsen (2013), the World Federation of Advertisers …

In de advocatuur is het investeren in bestaande cliënten een gangbare wijze van business development. Omdat de concurrentie echter is toegenomen, vooral in het mkb, is het behouden van bestaande mkb-cliënten voor advocaten een prangende kwestie geworden. De onderliggende kennisvraag die zich hierbij …

De markt voor juridische dienstverlening in Nederland is meer dan ooit in beweging en zet concurrentieposities van advocatenkantoren onder druk. Vooral in het midden en klein bedrijf maken ondernemers steeds meer gebruik van juridische kennis die ontsloten wordt via internet en neemt concurrentie toe …

Social media, such as Facebook, offer brands the opportunity to reach their target audience in a less obtrusive way than traditional media, through sponsored posts. Regulations require marketers to explicitly inform consumers about the commercial nature of these posts. This study addresses the effects …

What is a pop-up store and how can it be used for organisational counterspacing? The pop-up can be interpreted as a fashionable and hypermodern platform focusing on the needs of a younger generation of consumers that searches for new experiences and is prone to ad hoc decision-making. From this perspective, …

Within large service organizations there are currently two trends visible. These trends seem to be diametrically opposed. On the one hand organizations face increasing price pressure and thus a pressure to cut costs. One of the consequences of this trend is that organizations are increasingly encouraging …

This research was commissioned by HA! Marketing, an independent internet marketing agency based in Rotterdam. HA! Marketing supports small retail businesses. They implement both executive and advisory work relating to internet marketing for these companies. HA! Marketing discovered that for their target …

This marketing plan is written for Big in Japan. Big in Japan is a clothing store based in the eastside of Amsterdam. Big in Japan brings a carefully selected range of fashion and lifestyle brands to an accessible level, not only focusing online but also with a unique store concept, outside the city …

he reorientation of the public sector along market lines has led to the paradigm of New Public Management (NPM): the assumption that the public sector can be improved by management principles and techniques traditionally associated with the private sector. However, market orientation has also become …

Veel bedrijven staan reeds via social media als Facebook of Twitter in contact met hun gebruikers en iedere serieuze marketingcampagne werkt tegenwoordig met likes en tweets. Hoeveel ze daarin investeren en in de toekomst willen blijven doen, hangt af van de effectiviteit van social media. Maar wanneer …