Developing an internet marketing mix matrix using Product Life Cycle (PLC) and customer maturity

The lack of a practical Internet marketing tool which considers both product and customer dimensions and uses the Internet marketing mix as the main variable was the main problem and gap in the current literature which this research attempted to fill. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to iden...

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Main Author: Yazdanifard, Rashad
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spelling my-mmu-ep.52462014-02-26T01:59:36Z Developing an internet marketing mix matrix using Product Life Cycle (PLC) and customer maturity 2012-09 Yazdanifard, Rashad HF5410-5417.5 Marketing. Distribution of products The lack of a practical Internet marketing tool which considers both product and customer dimensions and uses the Internet marketing mix as the main variable was the main problem and gap in the current literature which this research attempted to fill. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify the components of Internet marketing mix and the subcomponents related to them and to establish an Internet marketing mix matrix as a marketing tool. Another aim was to test customer maturity as the effective factor on the structure of the Internet marketing mix. Finally, an examined Internet marketing mix matrix was developed in this research. The quantitative method was applied in this study. Two questionnaires were administered. Fifty-four subject matter experts responded to the first questionnaire and 313 marketing practitioners responded to the second questionnaire. The expert respondents were from Tehran University and Multimedia University while the marketing practitioners were from three companies in Iran and three companies from Malaysia. The study examined the objective using attitude measurement and the binomial test. The time span of this research is 2007 to 2012. 2012-09 Thesis http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/5246/ http://vlib.mmu.edu.my/diglib/login/dlusr/login.php phd doctoral Multimedia University Faculty of Management
institution Multimedia University
collection MMU Institutional Repository
topic HF5410-5417.5 Marketing
Distribution of products
spellingShingle HF5410-5417.5 Marketing
Distribution of products
Yazdanifard, Rashad
Developing an internet marketing mix matrix using Product Life Cycle (PLC) and customer maturity
description The lack of a practical Internet marketing tool which considers both product and customer dimensions and uses the Internet marketing mix as the main variable was the main problem and gap in the current literature which this research attempted to fill. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify the components of Internet marketing mix and the subcomponents related to them and to establish an Internet marketing mix matrix as a marketing tool. Another aim was to test customer maturity as the effective factor on the structure of the Internet marketing mix. Finally, an examined Internet marketing mix matrix was developed in this research. The quantitative method was applied in this study. Two questionnaires were administered. Fifty-four subject matter experts responded to the first questionnaire and 313 marketing practitioners responded to the second questionnaire. The expert respondents were from Tehran University and Multimedia University while the marketing practitioners were from three companies in Iran and three companies from Malaysia. The study examined the objective using attitude measurement and the binomial test. The time span of this research is 2007 to 2012.
format Thesis
qualification_name Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.)
qualification_level Doctorate
author Yazdanifard, Rashad
author_facet Yazdanifard, Rashad
author_sort Yazdanifard, Rashad
title Developing an internet marketing mix matrix using Product Life Cycle (PLC) and customer maturity
title_short Developing an internet marketing mix matrix using Product Life Cycle (PLC) and customer maturity
title_full Developing an internet marketing mix matrix using Product Life Cycle (PLC) and customer maturity
title_fullStr Developing an internet marketing mix matrix using Product Life Cycle (PLC) and customer maturity
title_full_unstemmed Developing an internet marketing mix matrix using Product Life Cycle (PLC) and customer maturity
title_sort developing an internet marketing mix matrix using product life cycle (plc) and customer maturity
granting_institution Multimedia University
granting_department Faculty of Management
publishDate 2012
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