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Two Essays on the Value of Marketing in the Digital Economy

2021· dissertation· W7132966752 on OpenAlex
Minjee Sun

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueTSpace · 2021
Typedissertation
Language
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicCustomer churn and segmentation
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAnalyticsDigital marketingDigitizationMarketing researchReturn on marketing investmentPortfolioExtant taxonSales managementCustomer engagementMarketing management
DOInot available

Abstract

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Over the past three to four decades, explosive growth in data collection, storage, and processing has changed marketing practice substantially. For example, in business-to-business industries, advanced marketing analytics has supported salespeople’s decision-making by providing predictions based on new types of information. Furthermore, companies can reach consumers and ask their opinions more easily. The first essay of my dissertation quantifies the impact of the availability of such information on the marketing-sales interface. While marketing analytics intended to aid salesforce decision-making has developed rapidly, there is little empirical understanding of how the adoption of such marketing analytics may affect sales performance. Using data from a global business-to-business information technology company, we provide empirical evidence that the adoption of a new marketing analytics tool improved salespeople’s performance. By further exploring the outcomes by salespeople- and account-specific characteristics, we find that marketing analytics enabled high-performing salespeople to achieve greater sales from customers without recent transactions. In contrast, for low-performing salespeople, marketing analytics led them to winning more sales opportunities from accounts with recent transactions. Overall, marketing analytics empowers the high performers to reach a more balanced customer account portfolio and supports the low performers to seize the opportunities that might have been missed. Digitization has not only provided more information on customers but enhanced the means of communications between companies and their customers. The extant literature has explored positive behaviors that can occur after completing a survey, sometimes called the mere-measurement effect, but has neglected how the effect may depend on the valence of previous experience. In the second essay, we examine the impact of product performance on the mere-measurement effect using a unique natural experiment dataset from a securities brokerage company. Our results confirm mere-measurement effects in transaction intensity, transaction volume, and sales of other products. More importantly, the effects are greater for customers with negative pre-survey performance. The finding suggests that participation in satisfaction surveys leads to asymmetric positive effect. These results can help companies assess the return of resources invested in conducting surveys beyond the value of information and more accurately understand the relation between consumer behavior and marketing interventions.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Scholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.731
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.284
Teacher spread0.265 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it