This professional report outlines and assesses of various advertising agency organization and compensation models. It provides an analysis of how the disruptive technology of the Internet has changed consumer media habits and caused a paradigm shift in the marketing communications landscape and how the current economic recession has affected agencies. The organization models addressed include the traditional silo model and the roster model. Compensation models include labor-based fee models, commission-based models, and several new models that the industry has recently embraced. / text

This thesis is dedicated to the problem of communication strategy in the fashion business with application on one of the fashion retailers, Kenvelo. Clothing business, or as we will refer here fashion business is together with food, transportation and communication businesses one of the most natural and essential parts of our lives. Nonetheless, fashion business is one of the most challenging and unpredictable ones, driven by many different factors and sometimes hardly comprehensive links. The main aim of the thesis is to identify the communication tools appropriate for the target group of Kenvelo, develop a new concept for communication and propose a media plan which would support this concept.

This Master thesis was written in collaboration with the Kalmar-based consulting company Sederkvist Kommunikation. The purpose was to explore the market potential for Sederkvist Kommunikations new software Bellman Marketing. Based on these results a launch plan was created and advoice were given to Sederkvist Kommunikation as to how their new administrative tool could be introduced on the market. Data were collected through semi-structured telephone interviews. The population was Swedish so called Gazelle-companies (growth-companies listed yearly by the business newspaper Dagens Industri) and totally 27 units were examined. Analysis indicated that there was a relatively large market potential for Bellman Marketing among Swedish fast-growing companies. The market does however not perceive a need for the software at this point, thus this need has to be pointed out first by Sederkvist Kommunikation. By effective market segmentation and with messages suited for target customers, the launch of Bellman Marketing can be successful.

<p>This Master thesis was written in collaboration with the Kalmar-based consulting company Sederkvist Kommunikation. The purpose was to explore the market potential for Sederkvist Kommunikations new software Bellman Marketing. Based on these results a launch plan was created and advoice were given to Sederkvist Kommunikation as to how their new administrative tool could be introduced on the market. Data were collected through semi-structured telephone interviews. The population was Swedish so called Gazelle-companies (growth-companies listed yearly by the business newspaper Dagens Industri) and totally 27 units were examined. Analysis indicated that there was a relatively large market potential for Bellman Marketing among Swedish fast-growing companies. The market does however not perceive a need for the software at this point, thus this need has to be pointed out first by Sederkvist Kommunikation. By effective market segmentation and with messages suited for target customers, the launch of Bellman Marketing can be successful.</p>