Byron Sharp

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Byron Sharp
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Ness Valley, New Zealand
Occupation(s)Director, Ehrenberg-Bass Institute for Marketing Science, University of South Australia.
Website http://www.marketingscience.info/research_staffs

Byron Sharp is a Professor of Marketing Science at the University of South Australia, known for his work on loyalty programs. [1] [2]

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Life and work

Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Sharp obtained his Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing in 1988 at the University of Auckland, and his Master of Business by Research at the University of South Australia, and PhD from the University of Adelaide. [3]

In 1995 Sharp was appointed Director of the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute at the University of South Australia, and in 1999 Professor of Marketing. [3] He also serves as a board member at the Wharton SEI Center's Future of Advertising project.

His research interests include buyer behaviour and brand performance, laws & principles in marketing, market-based assets, and advertising & Media.

Work

In 1997, with Anne Sharp, he reported the first empirical work seeking to document the effect of a loyalty program on buyer loyalty [4]

The research found a tendency across the product categories studied for loyalty programs to produce a small amount of excess loyalty. This weak effect was later replicated. [5] [6] [7]

In 2009 he co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Advertising Research with Professor Jerry Wind on empirical laws in advertising. [8]

Selected publications

Byron has written over 100 refereed conference papers and journal articles. [9]

Selected book titles

Selected journal articles

Related Research Articles

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A loyalty program or a rewards program is a marketing strategy designed to encourage customers to continue to shop at or use the services of one or more businesses associated with the program.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Consumer behaviour</span> Study of individuals, groups, or organisations and all the activities associated with consuming

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Marketing communications refers to the use of different marketing channels and tools in combination. Marketing communication channels focus on how businesses communicate a message to their desired market, or the market in general. It is also in charge of the internal communications of the organization. Marketing communication tools include advertising, personal selling, direct marketing, sponsorship, communication, public relations, social media, customer journey and promotion.

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In marketing and consumer behaviour, brand loyalty describes a consumer's persistent positive feelings towards a familiar brand and their dedication to purchasing the brand's products and/or services repeatedly regardless of deficiencies, a competitor's actions, or changes in the market environment. It can also be demonstrated with other behaviors such as positive word-of-mouth advocacy. Corporate brand loyalty is where an individual buys products from the same manufacturer repeatedly and without wavering, rather than from other suppliers. Loyalty implies dedication and should not be confused with habit, its less-than-emotional engagement and commitment. Businesses whose financial and ethical values rest in large part on their brand loyalty are said to use the loyalty business model.

The target audience is the intended audience or readership of a publication, advertisement, or other message catered specifically to the previously intended audience. In marketing and advertising, the target audience is a particular group of consumer within the predetermined target market, identified as the targets or recipients for a particular advertisement or message.

Brand extension or brand stretching is a marketing strategy in which a firm marketing a product with a well-developed image uses the same brand name in a different product category. The new product is called a spin-off.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andrew S. C. Ehrenberg</span>

Andrew Ehrenberg was a statistician and marketing scientist. For over half a century, he made contributions to data reduction/analysis and presentation, and to understanding buyer behaviour and how advertising works.

Double jeopardy is an empirical law in marketing where, with few exceptions, the lower-market-share brands in a market have both far fewer buyers in a time period and also lower brand loyalty.

Gerald Goodhardt was a marketing scientist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Food marketing</span> Promotion of food for sale

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to marketing:

"Youth Marketing" is a term used in the marketing and advertising industry to describe activities to communicate with young people, typically in the age range of 11 to 35. More specifically, there is teen marketing, targeting people age 11 to 17, college marketing, targeting college-age consumers, typically ages 18 to 24, and young adult marketing, targeting ages 25 to 34.

A touchpoint can be defined as any way consumers can interact with a business organization, whether person-to-person, through a website, an app or any form of communication. When consumers connect with these touchpoints they can consider their perceptions of the business and form an opinion.

Brand awareness is the extent to which customers are able to recall or recognize a brand under different conditions. Brand awareness is one of two dimensions from brand knowledge, an associative network memory model. It is a key consideration in consumer behavior, advertising management, and brand management. The consumer's ability to recognize or recall a brand is central to purchasing decision-making because purchasing cannot proceed unless a consumer is first aware of a product category and a brand within that category. Awareness does not necessarily mean that the consumer must be able to recall a specific brand name, but they must be able to recall enough distinguishing features for purchasing to proceed. Creating brand awareness is the main step in advertising a new product or bringing back the older brand in light.

A target market, also known as serviceable obtainable market (SOM), is a group of customers within a business's serviceable available market at which a business aims its marketing efforts and resources. A target market is a subset of the total market for a product or service.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brand</span> Identification for a good or service

A brand is a name, term, design, symbol or any other feature that distinguishes one seller's good or service from those of other sellers. Brands are used in business, marketing, and advertising for recognition and, importantly, to create and store value as brand equity for the object identified, to the benefit of the brand's customers, its owners and shareholders. Brand names are sometimes distinguished from generic or store brands.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">AIDA (marketing)</span> In marketing, a type of hierarchy of effects model

The AIDA marketing model is a model within the class known as hierarchy of effects models or hierarchical models, all of which imply that consumers move through a series of steps or stages when they make purchase decisions. These models are linear, sequential models built on an assumption that consumers move through a series of cognitive (thinking) and affective (feeling) stages culminating in a behavioural stage.

The Ehrenberg-Bass Institute for Marketing Science is the world’s largest centre for research into marketing. Ehrenberg-Bass is an independent, non-profit research institute based at the University of South Australia in Adelaide. Previously named the Marketing Science Centre, it was elevated to institute status in 2005. It is the first university institute devoted to marketing science. It was renamed after two marketing academics, Professor Andrew Ehrenberg and Professor Frank Bass.

Word-of-mouth marketing is the communication between consumers about a product, service, or company in which the sources are considered independent of direct commercial influence that has been actively influenced or encouraged as a marketing effort. While it is difficult to truly control word of mouth communication, there are three generic avenues to 'manage' word of mouth communication for the purpose of word-of-mouth marketing, including:

References

  1. Oliver, Richard L. "Whence consumer loyalty?." the Journal of Marketing (1999): 33-44.
  2. Wulf, Kristof De, Gaby Odekerken-Schröder, and Dawn Iacobucci. "Investments in consumer relationships: a cross-country and cross-industry exploration." Journal of marketing 65.4 (2001): 33-50.
  3. 1 2 "Byron Sharp: Professor of Marketing Science, Director Ehrenberg-Bass Institute," at linkedin.com, 2015
  4. Sharp, Byron and Anne Sharp (1997), "Loyalty Programs and Their Impact on Repeat-Purchase Loyalty Patterns," International Journal of Research in Marketing, 14 (5), 473-86.
  5. Sharp, Byron and Anne Sharp (1999), "Loyalty Programs and Their Impact on Repeat-Purchase Loyalty Patterns: A Replication and Extension," in 28th European Marketing Academy Conference Proceedings, Berlin, Germany: Institute of Marketing II, Humboldt-University
  6. Meyer-Waarden, Lars (2002) "The sources of Efficiency in Loyalty Programs-An Empirical Investigation based upon a Single Source Panel", PhD thesis, University of Pau, France.
  7. Jorna Leenheer, Harald J. van Heerde, Tammo H.A. Bijmolt and Ale Smidts (2007) "Do loyalty programs really enhance behavioral loyalty? An empirical analysis accounting for self-selecting members", International Journal of Research in Marketing, 24,1, p.31-47.
  8. Yoram (Jerry Wind and Byron Sharp (2009) "What We Know About Advertising", Journal of Advertising Research, 49,2
  9. Byron Sharp; Professor of Marketing Science, University of South Australia Google Scholar profile.
  10. Loyalty programs and their impact on repeat-purchase loyalty patterns." International journal of Research in Marketing 14.5 (1997): 473-486
  11. "Brand awareness effects on consumer decision making for a common, repeat purchase product:: A replication." Journal of business research 48.1 (2000): 5-15
  12. Management perceptions of the importance of brand awareness as an indication of advertising effectiveness." Marketing bulletin 14.2 (2003): 1-15