Monday, March 5, 2012

Careful Contest Design Helps Everyone Win, New Study Shows.

Byline: Rotman School of Management

TORONTO, March 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- They win some, they lose some.

Trial and error is the method most companies use to decide the prize structure for promotional sweepstakes and contests - a marketing tool poised to cost North American firms nearly $2 billion this year.

But those companies have a better shot at hitting their marketing targets consistently thanks to findings in a new paper published in the Journal of Marketing Research.

Knowing which type of consumers a company is trying to target - current customers or potential new ones -- is key to deciding a contest's prize structure, says Mengze …

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