Marketing Percolation

Preprint

24 May 2000

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/0005426

Abstract

A percolation model is presented, with computer simulations for illustrations, to show how the sales of a new product may penetrate the consumer market. We review the traditional approach in the marketing literature, which is based on differential or difference equations similar to the logistic equation (Bass 1969). This mean field approach is contrasted with the discrete percolation on a lattice, with simulations of "social percolation" (Solomon et al 2000) in two to five dimensions giving power laws instead of exponential growth, and strong fluctuations right at the percolation threshold.

Keywords

PERCOLATION THRESHOLD
MARKETING PERCOLATION
MARKETING LITERATURE
COMPUTER SIMULATIONS
DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS
EXPONENTIAL GROWTH
PERCOLATION MODEL
EQUATION

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Version 1, 2000-05-24, ArXiv
Published version: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 284 (1-4), 335.

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