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The effects of price promotions on service usage
Schmitt, Daniela
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Stahl, Florian
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Iyengar, Raghuram
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Document Type:
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Conference presentation
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Year of publication:
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2017
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Conference title:
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39th Annual ISMS Marketing Science Conference 2017
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Location of the conference venue:
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Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Date of the conference:
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7.-10. Juni 2017
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Publication language:
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English
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Institution:
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Business School > Quantitatives Marketing und Konsumentenverhalten (Stahl 2013-)
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Subject:
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330 Economics
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Keywords (English):
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Price Promotions ; Consumption ; New versus existing customers ; Information Goods ; Contractual Setting
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Abstract:
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A critical determinant of the success of any business model and in particular of contract-based business model is customer value management on individual level i.e., a careful assessment of the acquisition of new customers and retention of current customers. Sales promotions form an important means to acquire new customers. A large stream of literature has investigated the impact of promotions on customer behavior for the grocery category. However, relatively less work has considered the effect of such promotions on the access to and consumption of services. The objective of this research is to investigate if and how far customers acquired via price promotions are valuable for companies that employ both subscription- and advertising-based business models. Furthermore, we explore how far price promotions meant for new customers have a negative impact on the value of current customers who could not avail them. We do so in the context of a large digital news publisher that offered temporarily lowered prices for digital subscriptions. Specifically, we analyze the effect of temporarily lowered prices of subscriptions on customer retention and consumption for both new and existing customers. We find that new customers who are attracted by a price promotion can be more valuable to the company in terms of consumption, retention, and total revenues (considering subscription and advertising revenues together) than regular customers. Furthermore, existing customers who just missed out on the price promotion reduce their consumption dramatically in the short run. Thus, the total effect of a price promotion is less positive than when only considering new customers. Finally, a field experiment reveals an important managerial insight and shows that the drop in usage can be prevented, if the firm gives its existing customers the opportunity to switch to the promoted price and communicates that directly.
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Schmitt, Daniela
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Stahl, Florian
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Iyengar, Raghuram
Google Scholar:
Schmitt, Daniela
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Stahl, Florian
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Iyengar, Raghuram
ORCID:
Schmitt, Daniela, Stahl, Florian  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2846-3424 and Iyengar, Raghuram
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