Authors: Marie Andersson, Maria Gustafsson and Johanna Olsson.Tutor: Peter CaesarTitle: Don?t forget the story ? a study about internal StorytellingKeywords: Internal Storytelling, Internal marketing, Communication, Organizational culture, Internal branding, Fellowship, Motivation, Participation.Background: Something that can be problematic for managers in an organization is to find an effective way to spread information that will received by all the employees. One way to spread information and messages to the employees is by using internal Storytelling. The use of internal Storytelling aims to create an environment to build up an engaged personnel. Organizations use internal Storytelling when they want to create collective stories and frame of references among the employees within the organization, and also spread the values of the brand and information about the organization.Problem statement: How can internal marketing be affected by internal Storytelling?Method: Our study is based on a case-study of SCA Packaging Sweden AB.

This thesis investigates techniques for stealth hydroacoustic communication using spread spectrum. The Swedish naval defense organisations have a vision that all their units should be able to communicate with each other, even between underwater vehicles. But the properties of water makes it a complex channel to use for wireless communications. Radiomagnetic waves have very limited range in water, therefore acoustic waves are used. In this report the basics of wireless communication systems are described including source coding, channel coding, modulation techniques as well as different techniques for spread spectrum.

The authors of this paper intended to study and compare local secondary schools(municipally owned schools) and independent secondary schools(privately owned schools) in Stockholm County. The purpose oft his paper is to explore how secondary schools market themselves and whether the view and use of marketing is different between municipal and independent secondary schools. The essay is by nature multi-case study and interviews were conducted with representatives from four high schools, two municipal and two independent, one representative from Education Committee and one from Privet Schools? Association.The introduction of School reform in 1992 enabled opening of privately owned schools and empirical datas hows that before 1992 secondary schools did not have the same extent of competition and the need of marketing was not widespread, but today there is fierce competition among secondary schools. The introduction of School reform changed the conditions for the Swedish school market, greater freedom of choice led to atougherfight for the students, which in turn increases the competition between secondary schools.

This paper discusses the issue of trade dress imitation in the grocery sector. Our study has its starting point in the conflict that may arise between a brand owner and an imitator following an imitator?s marketing actions. In this study we look at the Market Court?s precedents in which this question has been addressed.

Sammanfattning- Att skapa uppmärksamhet på turismmarknaden ? En studie om Trosa Rederi:s kommunikationskanaler Datum:30 maj, 2012 Nivå:Kandidatuppsats i företagsekonomi, 15 hp Institution:Akademin för hållbar samhälls- och teknikutveckling, HST, Mälardalens Högskola Författare:Anna Andersson, Malin Hällblad och  Lina Wahlén Lindqvist28 november 1989, 2  september 1990, 21 februari 1988 Handledare:Finn Wiedersheim-Paul Nyckelord:Kommunikationskanaler, uppmärksamhet, kostnadseffektivitet, turism, påverkan. Syfte:Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur Trosa Rederi, genom kommunikationskanaler, kan skapa uppmärksamhet kring sitt varumärke hos sin målgrupp. Frågeställningar:Vilka kommunikationskanaler bör Trosa Rederi använda för att skapa uppmärksamhet kring sitt varumärke hos sin målgrupp, med hänsyn till företagets ekonomiska situation?Hur bör företaget använda kommunikationskanalerna för att skapa uppmärksamhet kring sitt varumärke hos sin målgrupp? Metod:Studien var av kvantitativ karaktär där intervjuer med företagsledarna bidrog till fakta om företaget och en marknadsundersökning låg till grund för undersökningen av målgruppens medievanor. Resultaten av undersökningen analyserades sedan mot den teori som samlats in genom sekundär datainsamling i form av litteratur, vetenskapliga artiklar, elektroniska källor och andra avhandlingar. Slutsats:Den genomförda studien påvisar vikten av att anpassa ett turismföretags kommunikationskanaler till målgruppen. Studien har även visat vilka kommunikationskanaler Trosa Rederi bör använda; annonser i dagstidningar, Word of Mouth, broschyrer, PR, samarbeten och sökmotoroptimering, samt hur dessa kostnadseffektiva kanaler bör användas för att lyckas skapa uppmärksamhet om sitt varumärke hos målgruppen..

For many companies, the Internet has revolutionized the relationship they have with their customers concerning costumer service. The use of Information Technology in regard to Internet as a media has provided companies with the opportunity to build customer databases in order to target their customers individually. The airline industry was one of the first pioneers to use the full potential of Internet to improve customer relations and its profits which we aim to investigate in greater detail in our thesis.Our thesis answers the question on how Scandinavian Airlines' (SAS) Eurobonus department uses their website to create valuable and profitable relationships with SAS loyalty club members through direct marketing. In order to answer our research question, three key informants have been interviewed - each representing different sub departments at Eurobonus; service and support, IT and marketing. Our results were that the Eurobonus department use direct marketing methods by sending customized e-mail offerings to target specific customer, using their customer databases.

Breaking through the clutter and getting consumers? attention is a constant battle for marketers. Could consumer magazines be the solution to the problem? It is not a new marketing method but consumer magazines do not look like traditional marketing and they offer consumers value. Since these are qualities that could increase consumers? will to take part of commercial messages, it might be a method that deserves more attention.

The current legislation on marketing of tobacco products creates problems for Swedish Match, and obstruct its marketing communications. The purpose of this paper is to investigate Swedish Match's marketing strategy of product category snuff, through a special exposure. In store placement has a great affects on customer buying behavior and studies have shown that 70-80 percent of all purchasing decisions are made in the store, which in turn provides great opportunity for retailers to use their marketing tools for influencing customer buying decisions.Our thesis study is to test a double exposure of snuff with the help of three special exposure. These three special exposures are fridge, fridge with a sign and sign. The purpose of the study is to test which of these three special exposures that have the greatest impact on sales.

No other object is in our constant possession such as the mobile phone. The smartphone has been transformed into a worldwide forum for information-rich exchanges between individuals and companies, by which this rapid access to the smartphone has created and continues to create opportunities in terms of communication. Many researchers of today undertake the challenge of studying the smartphone's role as a marketing channel, and the role of the channel is now undoubtedly central in marketing. However, as the importance of marketing communication increases and despite the fact that survey methods are exceedingly dependent on a channel to fulfill its purpose, namely carry out questionnaires, there has been surprisingly little attention to the study of the channel's role and importance when carrying out surveys. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the choice of a communication channel affects the survey outcome and, if so, further investigate how survey methods differ in terms of consumers' attitude and also their perception of their privacy.

The struggle for the customer has become a priority for the fashion industriesconsidering that it is the customers? willing to shop that guarantees theircontinuous survival on today?s competitive market. To keep the customer happyand satisfied, should be their priority as this leads to an economic advantagesince the customer becomes the companies strongest allay with help of the socalled ?word of mouth? effect. The positive response is then transmitted fromthe customer, acting as a spokes- person for the company.

The purpose of this essay is to analyze and understand how producerbrands are able to communicate their brand through today's marketing channels, also how development and changes that occur in the society can affect the producers communication abilities. We have seen a tendency that many retailers have created their own brands that are competing with the producers, this leads to the fact that producers in some cases are having trouble communicating their brand to the end-consumer. The fact that the producers marketing through retailers now is more limited than before, the producers now have to capture the consumers wants and needs through other channels.This essay is based on a qualitative method involving seven interviews. The persons that we've chosen to interview are carefully selected based on their specific knowledge about the subject in question..

Our essay treats the use of the annual report when it comes to marketing. Today there are many different ways for companies to reach out with their different messages; the thing that caught our interest was if the annual report is such a way.The annual report is an external accounting report which task is to give information to interested parties of companies. The annual report can be used to examine if the company has followed and achieved their goals. In other words it?s an important source of information that can be found about a company, which different interested parties can take part of for analyze.

Service branding is a subject that has been excluded from the traditional branding theory. Our main purpose with this paper is to distinguish what characterizes service branding. To do this, we have looked in to both service marketing theory as well as branding theory. We have also looked at the existing theory concerning service branding. Six qualitative interviews have been performed to explain what characterizes service branding.

This thesis conducts a comparative study between two academiclibraries, one Swedish and one English, in order to analyse ifdifferent funding systems influence the marketing of theirservices. The theoretic foundation is built on relationshipmarketing, which emphasises the importance of creating andmaintaining relationships. A qualitative approach has been usedthrough the use of case studies, with semi-structured interviewsbeing held with library staff and managers in both countries. Inaddition to these interviews strategic plans have also beenanalysed. The result from the study shows that whilst there aresome differences between the two university libraries there arealso similarities, which indicates that it is not clear if differentfunding systems have an impact on the marketing of the services..

Titel: Fansidans framgång ? En kvalitativ studie av företags kommunikation på FacebookFörfattare: Lina Anglert, Daniella Pettersson och Birgitta SjölundUppdragsgivare: Start Communication och More PRKurs: Examensarbete i medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap vid institutionen för medier, journalistikoch kommunikation, Göteborgs universitetTermin: Vårterminen 2013Handledare: Orla VigsøSidantal: 64Syfte: Syftet med vår studie är att, ur ett kommunikationsperspektiv, beskriva vad företag som bedömsvara framgångsrika på sociala medier gör på Facebook.Metod: Kvalitativ textanalysMaterial: Fem inlägg vardera, med tillhörande kommentarer, hämtade från åtta företags fansidor påFacebook.Huvudresultat: De mönster vi kan se är att företagen i huvudsak väljer att kommunicera genom textoch bild. Resultatet visar även att länkar är vanligt förekommande och då främst till företagens egnahemsidor. Vad gäller interaktionsarbete från företagens sida arbetar de sällan eller aldrig med direkta frågor till sina besökare. Innehållet i inläggen är till största del informerande och sällan av underhållande karaktär.