TY - GEN A1 - Brusch, Ines A1 - Brusch, Michael T1 - Influence of Privacy and Communication Factors on Online Behavior T2 - International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1108/IJQSS-06-2019-0080 SN - 1756-669X SN - 1756-6703 VL - 12 IS - 1 SP - 73 EP - 84 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Reichstein, Thomas A1 - Brusch, Ines A1 - Dost, Florian A1 - Brusch, Michael ED - Cross, Samantha ED - Saboo, Alok T1 - Captivate Your Audience: Suggestions for Enhancing Social Media Engagement Through Captions T2 - AMA Winter Academic Conference Proceedings, St. Pete Beach, Florida, on February 23-25, 2024 N2 - Engagement is important for the success of social media offers. Accordingly, the goal of responsible social media managers is to generate the maximum engagement with their content. Extant research has already addressed the factors that are related to the creation of compelling content. However, very little attention has been paid to the caption, and thus to a part of the social media post that can be easily changed. Our aim is to measure the impact of caption characteristics on engagement. We use, text length, number of emojis, and hashtags as caption variables, as well as comments, likes, and shares as engagement variables. In two different datasets, one from a merchandise online store (Facebook, Study 1) and another from a travel influencer (Instagram, Study 2) we find a similar robust result: the analyses reveal s a non-linear relationship between caption text length and engagement that follows an inverted U-shape. It follows that, contrary to previous assumptions, longer captions of around 600 characters should be used to in¬crease engagement. Estimations show that an increase in engagement of about 20% is possible. Y1 - 2024 UR - https://www.ama.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-Winter-AMA-Proceedings_Feb-28-2024.pdf SN - 978-0-87757-018-9 SP - 570 EP - 572 PB - American Marketing Association CY - Chicago, IL ER - TY - GEN A1 - Brusch, Ines A1 - Brusch, Michael A1 - Kozlowski, Therese T1 - Factors Influencing Employer Branding: Investigations of Student Perceptions Outside Metropolitan Regions T2 - International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1108/IJQSS-09-2017-0085 SN - 1756-669X VL - 10 IS - 2 SP - 149 EP - 162 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Reichstein, Thomas A1 - Brusch, Ines A1 - Dost, Florian A1 - Brusch, Michael T1 - How To Optimize Your Social Media Caption To Generate More Engagement :) #Captionize #SocialMedia T2 - Proceedings of the European Marketing Academy, EMAC 2023 Annual, Odense, Denmark, May 24, 2023 N2 - Maximizing engagement is an important issue for social media managers. Science has already provided guidance on how to make content more engaging. However, one easy-to-edit part of the social media post has received little attention: The caption. We show that the caption has an underestimated impact on engagement and we specifically address text length. The relationship between text length and engagement is not linear as described in previous literature but follows an inverted U-shape. Using field data, we estimate the optimal length of captions and provide surprising results. We show that captions are mostly too short instead of too long and that an optimal length can increase the engagement rate by up to 17%. Y1 - 2023 UR - https://proceedings.emac-online.org/index.cfm?abstractid=A2023-114288&How%20To%20Optimize%20Your%20Social%20Media%20Caption%20To%20Gener PB - European Marketing Academy ER - TY - GEN A1 - Brusch, Michael A1 - Brusch, Ines A1 - Stüber, Eva T1 - Influence of Error Factors in Marketing Research: A Monte Carlo Method Based Analysis in the Retail Context T2 - Archives of Data Science, Series A N2 - Marketing decisions are often based on empirically collected data and the goodness of data plays an important role here. Data quality can be affected by several types of errors, which are distinguished in particular into systematic and random errors, and is also influenced by the sample size. Accordingly, market researchers have to consider the goodness of data and should know which factors will have which kind of influence. In our paper, the influence of different factors of the goodness of data in the vibrant retail context will be investigated within a Monte Carlo experiment. For this purpose, a real empirical data set (n=1,500) of a survey regarding buying behavior in stationary and online shopping is used as “true” data and will be compared with “generated” data. The “generated” data are randomly disturbed and systematically varied alternatives of the “true” data. The data sets will be compared with respect to their conformity values and allow influence estimations. Y1 - 2020 UR - https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000127913 SN - 2363-9881 VL - 6 IS - 1 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Reichstein, Thomas A1 - Brusch, Ines A1 - Dost, Florian A1 - Brusch, Michael T1 - Maximizing Engagement Through Caption Optimization: Insights from Social Media Field Data T2 - 2023 ISMS Marketing Science Conference Proceedings N2 - Social media managers are constantly seeking ways to maximize engagement with their content. While prior research has shed light on strategies for creating engaging content, the impact of captions on engagement has been under-explored. Our study focuses specifically on the relationship between caption length and engagement in social media posts. Contrary to previous literature, we find that the relationship between caption length and engagement follows an inverted U-shape. Using field data from an omnichannel retailer (Facebook) and a travel influencer (Instagram), we determine the optimal caption length for maximizing engagement and present surprising results. Our results are robust for different model and identification specifications, indicating that captions are often too short, rather than too long, and that optimizing caption length in our case can increase engagement by up to 25%. These findings have important implications for social media managers and influencers seeking to enhance the impact of their posts. Y1 - 2023 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379237977 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Thiele, Uwe A1 - Brusch, L. A1 - Bestehorn, Michael A1 - Bär, Marcus T1 - Modelling thin-film dewetting on structured substrates and templates Y1 - 2003 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Brusch, Michael A1 - Baier, Daniel A1 - Treppa, Antje ED - Jajuga, Krzysztof T1 - Conjoint Analysis and Stimulus Presentation - a Comparison of Alternative Methods T2 - Classification, clustering and data analysis : recent advances and applications, Krakau 2002 Y1 - 2002 SN - 3-540-43691-X SP - 203 EP - 210 PB - Springer CY - Berlin [u.a.] ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Baumert, Katrin A1 - Baier, Daniel A1 - Brusch, Michael A1 - Tursch, Philipp ED - Woll, Ralf ED - Uhlemann, Matthias T1 - Ermittlung wahrgenommener Produktpositionierungen mittels Repertory-Grid-Technik - Vorgehensweise und Anwendung am Beispiel Smartphones T2 - Vielfalt Qualität - Tendenzen im Qualitätsmanagement, Bericht zur GQW-Jahrestagung 2012 in Cottbus Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-3-8440-0799-2 SP - 145 EP - 161 PB - Shaker Verlag CY - Aachen ET - 1. Auflage ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Daniel, Ines A1 - Brusch, Michael A1 - Große, Kerstin A1 - Kozlowski, Therese T1 - Employer Branding as Important Issue in Attracting New Academic Employees – An Assessment from a Student’s Point of View T2 - Proceedings of the 18th QMOD Conference on Quality and Service Sciences, Seoul (Korea) 2015 Y1 - 2015 UR - http://210.101.116.28/W_files/kiss5/23404832_pv.pdf SN - 978-91-7623-086-2 PB - University Library Press CY - Lund ER -