Investigating the effects of different levels of CRM investment on development of brand equity

This paper investigates the effects of different marketing strategies including basic marketing, reactive marketing, accountable marketing, proactive marketing and partnership marketing on brand equity. The proposed study uses two questionnaires, one for measuring the effects of different marketing...

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Main Authors: Hamed Abbasi, Hamid Reza Abbasi, Mahsan Hajirasouliha, Ashkan Faraji
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Growing Science 2014-04-01
Series:Management Science Letters
Subjects:
CRM
Online Access:http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol4/msl_2014_68.pdf
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Summary:This paper investigates the effects of different marketing strategies including basic marketing, reactive marketing, accountable marketing, proactive marketing and partnership marketing on brand equity. The proposed study uses two questionnaires, one for measuring the effects of different marketing strategies and the other for brand equity in Likert scale. Cronbach alphas for brand equity and marketing strategies are calculated as 0.71 and 0.86, respectively. The study has been implemented among 385 regular customers of a Picnic Gas distributer in city of Karaj, Iran. Using Spearman correlation ratio as well as stepwise regression analysis, the study has detected that there were positive and meaningful relationship between marketing strategies and brand equity.
ISSN:1923-2934
1923-9343