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Book SynopsisThe marketing of luxury goods faces a fundamental challenge: balancing sales growth against exclusiveness. In today’s digital world, this trade-off has become even more challenging. A luxury brand’s fragile concept of exclusiveness is seemingly incompatible with the ubiquitous availability provided by the mass medium Internet. The author addresses this trade-off both conceptually and empirically. First, the author conceptually examines the specific marketing-mix for luxury goods in terms of product, price, communications, and distribution management. Second, this marketing-mix is applied to the online environment. Third, the author empirically tests the effects of the online accessibility of luxury goods on consumer perceptions of scarcity and desirability.
Table of ContentsThe Concept of Luxury – Marketing-Mix of Luxury Goods – Online Marketing-Mix of Luxury Goods – Expert Interviews - Online Distribution – Theory and Hypotheses - Effects of Online Accessibility – Empirical Studies on the Effects of Online Accessibility
