Sales promotion under Internet environment is the marketing activity of company that provides additional incentives such as discount, gifts, coupon, giveaway and point system in the short run in order to encourage immediate response from consumers. Co...
Sales promotion under Internet environment is the marketing activity of company that provides additional incentives such as discount, gifts, coupon, giveaway and point system in the short run in order to encourage immediate response from consumers. Consumer response here means the purchase intention.
In addition, sales promotion is different from advertising in that it is a short-term inducing or stimulating means to encourage immediate actions of consumers. In particular, sales promotion under Internet environment is tactically useful in that it can be properly used in various kinds of marketing situation. As there are more and more diverse commodities available in Internet market, it is required to prepare responsive internet marketing measures.
It is also very important to identify the factors that affect the formation of site image and motive of consumers for visiting stores at Internet shopping mall. This study aims to identify the main variables of site image that affect the purchase intension of internet shopping mall users and to analyze how such variables affect the purchase intention. For this purpose, this study identified main dimension of site image that affects the formation of purchase intention and attitude toward Internet shopping mall and practically analyze how the relative effects of site image variables differ in forming purchase intention and attitude toward the shopping mall among consumer groups.
With regard to perceived value of customers for loyalty program, it is more important to examine how consumers recognize rather than profitability of consumers in order to measure performance of corporate marketing activity. In this regard, this study evaluated the cash value of loyalty program out of 5 perceived value factors. Cash value shows how value it is when converting the compensation received from loyalty program into cash.
Experiment was carried out for practical study to verify study subjects and survey was carried out. Draft was prepared for 5 types of sales promotion(discount, gifts, coupon, giveaway and reserve point) and data was collected targeting consumers who have visited or interested in Internet shopping malls and purchased products through Internet shopping malls. Survey was carried out targeting male and female university students, graduate students and ordinary office workers in their 20's and 30's who live in Seoul and relatively use Internet frequently.
Given the relation between types of sales promotion of shopping mall site and purchase intention, it is most effective to increase the cash perceived value of consumers on promotion types, followed by promotion activity such as 'point system' to enhance trust of site, and then price factor. Promotion activity of increasing the product value and convenient use, which are basic requirements of shopping mall site, was found out to be the variable without big influence on purchase intension.
As a result of examining which image variables have significant effects on purchase intention among all consumer groups, 3 image variables such as trust, product value and convenience are found to affect the purchase intention.
This study is meaningful in that it allows classification of market and target market of sales promotion appeal type of shopping mall by verifying the effects of sales promotion appeal type of shopping mall on consumer price, which has not been verified yet, through measurement of site image and selection of promotion type that increases cash perceived value, and that it provides basic materials to companies for introduction of more customers.