Bussinessmen, companies and traders put money into advertising. But they require these ads to bring the desired effect -- i.e. new customers, sales, revenues. Affiliate marketing allows exactly all of that. The objective of this diploma thesis is to describe the affiliate marketing (kind of performance advertising on the internet) from the perspective of the advertiser and further evaluate affiliate marketing as a suitable form of promotion for a particular Czech company. There will also be the affiliate program analysis, its realization and description of affiliate program management.

This diploma focuses on online marketing trends among the Czech e-shops in 2016 and what impact does online marketing have on e-shops profit. The main sources of information to draw a conclusion include consultation with the four agencies, who are responsible for several dozen e-shops, and consultations with the two renowned online marketing specialists. Moreover, data collection was conducted from May to do December 2016. The total number of respondents in the quantitative research was 625 online shoppers and 41 e-shops. In the qualitative research were interviewed 18 e-shops. From the analyzed responses was created and overview on how online marketing trend of Czech e-shops in 2016 looks like and what impact does online marketing have on their profit.

O crescimento da Internet ao longo dos últimos anos como canal de vendas e canal de relacionamento entre as empresas e seus consumidores acabou por torná-la uma das principais apostas das grandes redes de varejo para a expansão dos negócios e aumento de sua performance operacional. Dentro deste contexto, o objetivo desta dissertação é contribuir à formação do conhecimento na área pesquisando o comportamento do comprador online brasileiro, especificamente alguns dos elementos motivadores e inibidores de compra, além de outros aspectos relacionados à frequência de compra, satisfação com o meio e indicadores demográficos. Para cumprir tais objetivos, foi realizada uma revisão bibliográfica passando pela literatura acerca de comportamento do consumidor e de estudos empíricos voltados especificamente à área de Internet. Complementarmente, foi conduzida uma pesquisa de campo quantitativa com 238 usuários de Internet brasileiros, visando contrapor os resultados às referências teóricas pesquisadas. Os resultados do estudo apontam a existência de diferentes níveis de importância entre os elementos determinantes do meio de compra (a destacar os fatores de preço e facilidade de acesso), além de identificar relações significativas positivas entre a intensidade de uso da Internet e a quantidade de compras realizadas online; e também entre a satisfação com as compras online e a intenção de realização de compras futuras pelo meio. / The growth of the Internet over the last years as a sales channel and as a relationship channel between companies and its costumers has ultimately made it one of the main bets of the largest retail chains for achieving business growth and for increasing their operating performance. In this context, the objective of this dissertation is to provide a contribution to the knowledge development in the area by researching the buyers behavior in Brasil, specifically some of the motivators and inhibitors elements of the online purchase, along with its correlation to other related aspects, such as purchase frequency, medium satisfaction on purchase, and key demographics of the online buyer. In order to reach these goals, a literature review has been conducted over consumer behavior references as well as empiric studies more specifically oriented to the dissertation discussion area. A quantitative field research has also been conducted with 238 Brazilian Internet users, with the main purpose of comparing the survey results to the literature review findings. The study results indicate the existence of different importance levels among the determing elements of the purchase mean (to be highlighted the importance of the price and easy access factors), besides pointing out positive and significative correlations between the intensity of Internet usage and purchase behavior; and between online purchases satisfaction and future purchase intention.

The world of luxury products for many years was reserved only for the selective and exclusive audience. It looked like it was impossible to experience it or to get in for someone from outside. Marketers of luxury brands have created such an environment where clients could feel exclusivity and enjoy timeless quality, values, history and heritage of the brand. It is very important to maintain the traditional values for luxury brands but in order to stay in touch with the target audience, luxury producers have to face and adapt to rapidly changing environment. There are a lot of debates about comparability of the Internet and luxury, as digital world is too impersonal comparing with core competence of luxury: exclusivity, outstanding experience and human touch in everything including craftsmanship, personal selling and customer relations. In current environment luxury companies cannot ignore the importance of the Internet as a communication and transaction tool and have to stay in touch with its target audience. The main contribution of this dissertation thesis is an analytical framework "features of importance for online luxury consumer satisfaction" that will help luxury marketers to understand online luxury consumers, their motivations, behavior and preferences. Additionally, framework presents the up-to-date data that can be executed while creating digital marketing communications strategy. The influence of content, social, process and technology gratifications on the online luxury consumer satisfaction was investigated. By incorporating the quantitative approach it was possible to make a deep analysis of the research problem. To obtain the necessary data the group structured questionnaire was used to analyze the proposed research model. A total of 133 respondents were accepted for the investigation. Analysis of correlation proved the positive relation between gratifications and luxury consumer satisfaction, even thought, proposed gratifications had different influence on the satisfaction. Content and technology gratifications had the most strong and positive influence on the satisfaction. However, from the obtained results it is visible that social gratification had the least important but still positive effect on the luxury consumer satisfaction. The obtained results are a valuable asset for the luxury companies as research revealed the main directions and themes on which luxury marketers should stress while creating online communication strategies.

Tese de mestrado. Multimédia. Universidade do Porto. Faculdade de Engenharia. 2011

Purpose The purpose of this thesis is, looking from a consumer’s perspective, to investigate the influences of students website selection Background Today’s students are a new generation of consumers. They have been brought up with digi-tal media and have different attitudes towards marketing than their parents. Most market management theories were created before the digital revolution. Students are tomorrow’s high income consumers. It is valuable for companies to understand how these consumers orientate themselves on the internet and how to best reach them. Method An exploratory/explanatory deductive study to map what websites students use, how the websites are found and why they are used was conducted. The empirical findings were col-lected through group interviews. Conclusion Students have a very habitual behavior on the internet. They use some of the internet’s largest brands. Each website offers a niche and specialized service, presented in a simple and interactive manner. Students choose one website for each specific service. As the in-ternet is large with a lot of information they have a cluster of chore websites visited on a regular basis. From that base, students use friends and search engines to navigate them-selves to the destinations of their choice. Advertisement offer more trust than enticement to actually visit the sites.

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A tese buscou encontrar padrões em peças digitais consideradas relevantes aos profissionais atuantes no mercado publicitário. Em prisma conceitual, reproblematizou as terminologias publicidade, propaganda e marketing na contemporaneidade, de forma a recomendar jurisdições às suas adoções no ambiente web. Já em linhas metodológicas desenvolveu um conjunto de procedimentos para encontro dessas peças com base nos seguintes critérios: repositório, relevância, acessibilidade e perenidade. O universo de construção da amostra foi composto por sete premiações publicitárias distintas geograficamente (região, país e mundo), em foco (híbridas e online) e em ciclo de carreira (profissionais e estudantes). A observação de tais eventos apontou para utilização do Festival Mundial de Criatividade de Cannes como estudo de caso. A análise das doze peças agraciadas como Grand Prix na categoria Cyber Lions no período de 2009 a 2014 desvelou cinco padrões principais: anunciantes de grande porte, utilização de vídeos, possibilidade de participação das audiências, repercussões editoriais e narrativas/contações de estórias. / The present thesis sought to identify patterns in digital pieces that were considered to be relevant to the publicity system. In a conceptual scope, the study re-problematized the terms publicity, advertising and marketing in contemporary times so to recommend jurisdictions to their usages within the web environment. Regarding methodology, a set of procedures were developed to address these pieces based on the following criteria: repository, relevance, accessibility and continuity. The universe of sample construction was composed by seven advertising awards that were distinct in their geography (region, country and world), focus (hybrid and online) and career cycle (professionals and students). By observing these events, the Cannes Lion International Festival of Creativity was indicated as the case study. The twelve pieces awarded as Grand Prix in the Cyber Lions category between 2009 and 2014 were analyzed and five patterns emerged: large advertisers, use of videos, possibility for audience participation, editorial repercussions, and storytelling/narratives.

Diploma thesis deals with the basic marketing strategy analysis of manufacturing firms and then suggestions for its improvement. The work is divided into two main parts.The first part is devoted to contemporary marketing, which includes a comparison of financial and human resources. In the second part describes the design of marketing strategy and its implementation. The thesis also deals with the optimization of the system. The aim is to set a marketing strategy to increase sales, profits and also to define the cost of marketing the company. Outcome of this work is to reveal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats and detailed steps that may include not only financial and human resources but also the abilityand know-how. The work is to provide an integrated form of the current marketing strategy, detailed descriptions of its functionality.

A tese buscou encontrar padrões em peças digitais consideradas relevantes aos profissionais atuantes no mercado publicitário. Em prisma conceitual, reproblematizou as terminologias publicidade, propaganda e marketing na contemporaneidade, de forma a recomendar jurisdições às suas adoções no ambiente web. Já em linhas metodológicas desenvolveu um conjunto de procedimentos para encontro dessas peças com base nos seguintes critérios: repositório, relevância, acessibilidade e perenidade. O universo de construção da amostra foi composto por sete premiações publicitárias distintas geograficamente (região, país e mundo), em foco (híbridas e online) e em ciclo de carreira (profissionais e estudantes). A observação de tais eventos apontou para utilização do Festival Mundial de Criatividade de Cannes como estudo de caso. A análise das doze peças agraciadas como Grand Prix na categoria Cyber Lions no período de 2009 a 2014 desvelou cinco padrões principais: anunciantes de grande porte, utilização de vídeos, possibilidade de participação das audiências, repercussões editoriais e narrativas/contações de estórias. / The present thesis sought to identify patterns in digital pieces that were considered to be relevant to the publicity system. In a conceptual scope, the study re-problematized the terms publicity, advertising and marketing in contemporary times so to recommend jurisdictions to their usages within the web environment. Regarding methodology, a set of procedures were developed to address these pieces based on the following criteria: repository, relevance, accessibility and continuity. The universe of sample construction was composed by seven advertising awards that were distinct in their geography (region, country and world), focus (hybrid and online) and career cycle (professionals and students). By observing these events, the Cannes Lion International Festival of Creativity was indicated as the case study. The twelve pieces awarded as Grand Prix in the Cyber Lions category between 2009 and 2014 were analyzed and five patterns emerged: large advertisers, use of videos, possibility for audience participation, editorial repercussions, and storytelling/narratives.