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Understanding Electronic Payment Systems
Electronic payment systems as a field of study have become important with the recent rise in e-commerce activities taking place on the internet to help conduct faster, secure, and large-scale payments successfully. An electronic payment system, by definition, is a mode of payment that facilitates acceptance of electronic payment primarily for commercial transactions over the…
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MANAGING SERVICE DELIVERY AND PAYMENT
In the previous part, we studied key digital revenue generation models and how customer loyalty management is advancing to Loyalty 3.0. We then looked at the rise of relationship marketing through the stages of customer Loyalty Ladder and how we can continuously engage with customers through the DRIP model and advocate marketing. In this second…
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Driving Advocates through Customer Experience
With an understanding of the ladder of customer loyalty, in this last section on digital revenue management, we would take a deeper look into who the advocates are and how loyal customers can be turned to brand advocates whose interactions can lead to new revenues through positive word-of-mouth and proactive reach-out to communities they are…
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Rise of Relationship Marketing: Turning Loyalists to Advocates
With an understanding of how loyalty management as a function is shifting in the digital era, in this section, we shall look at the emergence of relationship marketing and how firms need to convert loyalists into advocates to further their cause of increased revenues and customer satisfaction. Relationship marketing as a concept was shared by…
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MANAGING DIGITAL MARKETING REVENUE
Digital Revenue Generation Models As discussed earlier in Chapter 5, section titled, ‘Offering Mix for Digital,’ firms deploying digital marketing typically fall in one of the five product-service states. For a company in any of these five states, it is crucial that they earn revenue on the digital platform be it a pure play offline product…
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Emerging Data-Driven Display Models (Programmatic and RTB)
In the previous section, we covered manual display inventory sales models in detail along with looking at the stages of a standard display campaign workflow. In this section, we shall cover the latest trends and shift towards data-driven display buying models which are essentially programmatic in nature. The key difference between manual and data-driven models…
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IMPLEMENTING BRAND-BASED CAMPAIGNS (DISPLAY EXECUTION)
In the last section, we covered the basics of search campaign planning, set-up and execution of SEM, and SEO in detail. In the present section, we would cover the second prominent type of digital marketing campaigns which relates primarily to brand-building activities and is also known as display advertising in common industry parlance. Display Campaign…
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SEO Basics and Management
With an understanding of the basics of search engine marketing (paid) campaigns, we would look at the other equally important aspect of search marketing known as SEO or Search Engine Optimization. By definition, SEO consists of all activities and techniques applied towards making a website (and inclusive webpages) rank at the top of any search…
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Strategies for Successful SEM Campaigns
With an understanding of how paid search campaigns are run and managed, let us study some of the key strategies and impact factors for running successful SEM campaigns. While a lot of minor factors can impact the success of an SEM campaign, the major ones include: Apart from strategies shared by Google, as above, there…