Interactivity has become a crucial aspect of marketing. It allows companies to connect with their customers, often resulting in positive outcomes. Based on a literature review, this chapter discusses ten of the most pioneering tools used in interactive marketing. First it will be explained how each tool …

Today, consumers expect companies to be socially responsible. However, the literature is undecided about the effects of communicating one's corporate social responsibility activities to consumers. This raises the question of how sustainability-driven companies can best advertise their products to stimulate …

In the Migrant’s Paradox, Suzanne Hall takes you on an excursion to the world of migrant shop proprietors in the urban margins of five UK cities, exposing it as a world full of controversies and contradictions.

Purpose Physical stores are increasingly dependent on impulse visits and the impulse purchases of passers-by. Interactive advertising screens in store windows could help retailers increase impulse-visit urges and impulse-buying urges. However, the effects of interactive screens in physical surroundings …

In most shopping areas, there are place management partnerships (PMPs) that aim to increase the competitiveness of the area. Collective digital marketing activities, such as the adoption and update of collective websites and social media pages, provide opportunities in this regard. Currently, the extent …

Service robots provide retailers with new opportunities to innovate their in-store service offerings. Despite advances made in the fields of human-robot interaction, information systems, and marketing, there is relatively little known about how to apply a service robot in retailing. In this paper we …

Purpose This study aims to develop an understanding of how customers of a physical retail store valuate receiving location-based mobile phone messages when they are in proximity of the store. It proposes and tests a model relating two benefits (personalization and location congruency) and two sacrifices …

Voor het eerst in vijftig jaar zijn er op de Nederlandse arbeidsmarkt meer vacatures dan werklozen [1]. Omdat de druk voor ondernemers hierdoor sterk toeneemt is het relevant om te kijken of robots een oplossing kunnen bieden. Uit ons eerdere blogartikel [2] kwam naar voren dat klanten robots vooral …

Voorwoord: De manier waarop consumenten winkelen, is een steeds veranderende mix van fysiek en online. Om de fysieke retail toekomstbestendig te maken en te houden, is het van groot belang dat de fysieke retail innoveert als antwoord op de hedendaagse ontwikkelingen op het gebied van (online) winkelen. …

Hoe maak je als winkelier gebruik van de sterke punten van zowel je winkelpersoneel als een servicerobot? En zit de klant er eigenlijk wel op te wachten door mens-robotcombinaties te worden bediend? Nieuw onderzoek onder meer dan 1000 Nederlandse consumenten geeft antwoorden.