With growing synchronization of IT and revolutionalizing Marketing tactics what do you think are the most lucrative marketing domains for the future marketiers and marketing researchers
Business Model Transformation. Here is an excellent article written by Michael Ehret and Jochen Wirtz: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308200012_Unlocking_Value_from_Machines_Business_Models_and_the_Industrial_Internet_of_Things
Other concepts will be presented here: https://www.researchgate.net/project/Die-informatisierte-Service-Oekonomie
The continuing rise of analytics, along with continually more sophisticated research techniques (there's an interesting recent article in Quirks about using mobile technology to manage response bias). CRM will continue to evolve (and improve) as the processes and underlying capabilities mature.
This is a very good question, indeed! And is also very interesting the possibility of trying to understand the answers as a sort of experts panel, or something close to the use of the Delphi Method.
I think that many scholars, particularly in North America, I mean USA and Canada, have been using the orientations from Marketing Science Institute (MSI), which uses to publish a document called MSI Research Priorities. Considering that most of journals is published under a mainstream perspective, I think that the priorities pointed out by MSI tend to be followed by scholars from all over the world. Nevertheless, I do not think that those priorities are necessarily suitable for scholars that work, for instance, in emerging economies or have different structure and budget for researching. In order to take a look at that priorities, you can access the document here: http://www.msi.org/uploads/articles/MSI_RP16-18.pdf
By the way, from my point of view, I would say that the hot topics in marketing field include: (i) social media; (ii) digital marketing; (iii) shared consumption; (iv) collaborative consumption; (v) social marketing; (vi) entrepreneurial marketing; (vii) sustainable marketing; (viii) construction of markets (marketing practices that make and shape markets); (ix) macromarketing; and (x) marketing education.
When we think "hot topics" as the under-explored problems I would suggest the following ones as to the b2c: (1) how do the local/regional/domestic firms compete (and grow) against the global incumbents in creation of customers' meaningful experiece transfromation, for instance MaxBurger and Pasibus against McDonald's in burger-shop experience, GreenCoffeeNero against Starbucks in coffee-shops experience? how do they change the meaning of customer experience in the category (1a) how do they use the sustainable values/design principles to compete in the category (2) how to avoid the online bias/limitation in our research on value creation - please compare the two articles to understand it.
Wagner T.F, Baccarella Ch., V, Voigt K.I.( 2017) Framing social media communication: Investigating the effects of brand post appeals on user interaction. European Management Journal 35 (2017) 606-616
Edvardsson B, Enquist B (2005) Co-Creating Customer Value Through Hyperreality in the Prepurchase Service Experience. Journal of Service Research · November 2005 DOI: 10.1177/1094670505279729
I think marketing itself an area for deeper understanding as its ideas keep on changing with changes in market trends, consumer behavior etc. Though social media is a burning topic we may add mobile marketing along with ambush marketing.
All of the above are important. Personally, I think it is the pervasiveness and the impact that digital distractions may or may not on the behaviour of buyers. Furthermore, I think that the role of machine learning and artificial intelligence is in its infancy in the field of Marketing and this will surely become the next big thing in our field.
Thank you very much everyone for your valuable response. Right now I am exploring and evaluating the viability and suitability of these research topics for my research project.
Inspite of my interest in neuromarketing I think I ll have to go for data analytics, social media and its application on retail industry...I assume
I found that text analyzing in marketing is becoming a success KPI.
it is so interesting topic but i thing you need to know more about machine learning and the other tools first and this may be make a trouble for marketers.
Market research, consumer needs, opinions of Internet users on the offers of products and services of companies carried out in the formula of sentiment analysis on analytical and database Big Data Analytics platforms. The results of these studies are an important source of data to improve the planning process and optimize the budget of an advertising campaign.