Despite the increasing and ubiquitous use of social media for business activities, scholar research on social media marketing strategy is scant and companies deploy their social media marketing strategies guided by intuition or trial and error. This study proposes a comprehensive framework that identifies and classifies social media marketing strategic actions. The conceptual framework covers actions that support both transactional and relationship marketing. This research also positions social media marketing strategy and strategic actions in the context of the marketing organization theory, and discusses the impact of the incorporation of social media on the concept of marketing organization. The study offers valuable theoretical insight on social media marketing actions and the deployment of social media marketing strategies in companies. The investigation also provides hints about how to maximize the benefits from social media marketing for customer-oriented, market-driven organizations
Purpose -This study investigates the perceived exposure of fashion consumers to different types of fashion brands' social media marketing (SMM) actions in social media, and its relationship with the intention to engage in electronic word-of-mouth (eWoM) behaviors.Design/methodology/approach -The empirical study uses a survey with a stratified random sample of 241 Indonesian members of fashion social media brand communities. The research design includes nineteen types of SMM actions and three types of eWoM engagement behaviors, and investigates their relationship using point-biserial correlation.Findings -Generation of intention to engage in "pass-on" and "endorsement" eWoM has different drivers and serves different purposes. The findings suggest that endorsement engagement is contingent on the consumer's perceived exposure to marketing action stimuli, while pass-on engagement is driven by cognitive-inducing actions.Research implications -This study extends current theory on SMM strategy and its relationship with eWoM engagement with a theoretically grounded conceptualization of eWoM engagement behaviors through the use of one-click social plugins. Practical implications -The study offers guidelines for fashion brands to effectively design their SMM strategies by identifying specific drivers of consumers' intention to engage in eWoM. Originality/value -This study identifies sources of generation of eWoM engagement behavioral intention from a fine-grained analysis of marketing actions across various fashion social media brand communities. Besides, it extends the applicability of the "mere exposure" effect to the SMM context. The research pioneers the study on fashion consumers' eWoM engagement behaviors in Indonesia, a country with one of the largest social media populations. Abstract Purpose -This study investigates the perceived exposure of fashion consumers to different types of fashion brands' social media marketing (SMM) actions in social media, and its relationrelationship with the intention to engage in electronic word-of-mouth (eWoM) behaviors. Design/methodology/approach -The empirical study uses a survey with a stratified random sample of 241 Indonesian members of fashion social media brand communities. The research design includes nineteen types of SMM actions and three types of eWoM engagement behaviors, and investigates their relationship using point-biserial correlation.Findings -Generation of intention to engage in "pass-on" and "endorsement" intention to engage in eWoM has different drivers and serves different purposes. FindingsThe findings suggest that endorsement engagement is contingent on the consumer's perceived exposure to marketing action stimuli, while pass-on engagement is driven by cognitive-inducing actions.Research implications -This study extends current theory on SMM strategy and its relationrelationship with eWoM engagement with a theoretically grounded conceptualization of eWoM engagement behaviors through the use of one-click social plugins.Practical implications -The study offers ...
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