As the importance of a promotion means in today's marketing activity is emphasized, the importance of the sales promotion is being emerged. At this point of time, this study, first, examines about the sales promotion and the pursuit recognized by fash...
As the importance of a promotion means in today's marketing activity is emphasized, the importance of the sales promotion is being emerged. At this point of time, this study, first, examines about the sales promotion and the pursuit recognized by fashion consumers in internet shopping mall. Second, it examines the influence of the sales promotion in internet shopping mall upon the sales-promotion pursuit benefit. Third, it clarified the influence of the sales-promotion pursuit benefit upon the purchase satisfaction, repurchase intention, and word-of-mouth intention. Fourth, it examines the influence of the purchase satisfaction caused by the sales promotion upon repurchase intention and word-of-mouth intention.
To confirm these research objectives, the materials were collected with questionnaire method. Questionnaire survey was carried out targeting people in their 20s~30s who have experience of purchasing fashion goods, by referring to the purchase postscripts in the internet shopping mall. The period of questionnaire survey was carried out from February 2, 2010 to February 20. It widely distributed totally 450 copies of questionnaire, and then used the effective 424 copies as the finally analytical materials. The data was carried out frequency analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, and multiple regression analysis, ANOVA, t-test by using SPSS statistical program. The results of this study are as follows.
First, as a result of examining the sales promotion and the pursuit benefit perceived by fashion consumers in internet shopping mall, a type of the sales promotion was divided into 5 factors such as fashion information, giveaway/free gift, point/milage, coupon, and price discount. The pursuit benefit was classified into 4 factors such as monetary benefit, entertainment benefit, information benefit, and convenience benefit.
Second, as a result of examining the influence of the sales promotion perceived by fashion consumers in internet shopping mall upon pursuit benefit, the influence of price discount was the highest in monetary benefit. In the entertainment benefit, the influence of giveaway/free gift was the highest. In the information benefit, the influence of fashion information was high. In the convenience benefit, the influence of coupon was indicated to be the highest.
Third, as a result of examining the influence of the sales-promotion pursuit benefit perceived by fashion consumers upon the purchase satisfaction, repurchase intention, and word-of-mouth intention, all the factors of the sales-promotion pursuit benefit had significant influence upon purchase satisfaction, repurchase intention, and word-of-mouth intention.
Fourth, fashion consumers' purchase satisfaction had significant influence upon both repurchase intention and word-of-mouth intention. Given purchasing product, the more satisfactory at the sales promotion led to the higher in the repurchase intention and in the word-of-mouth intention.
Additionally, as a result of analyzing difference in the sale promotion & pursuit benefit, purchase satisfaction, repurchase intention, and word-of- mouth intention according to demographic characteristics, there was difference in fashion information, coupon and price discount for the sales promotion according to gender. The sales-promotion pursuit benefit had difference in entertainment benefit and information benefit. And, according to the marital status, there was statistically significant difference only in the convenience benefit of the pursuit benefits in the price discount for the sales promotion and in the sales promotion.
This study clarified characteristics of the sales promotion and the pursuit benefit that have influence upon the purchase satisfaction, repurchase intention, and word-of-mouth intention in internet fashion consumers. Thus, it will be able to offer useful data for establishing a marketing strategy for leading to the satisfaction of fashion consumers in internet shopping mall, to a rise in repurchase, and to the agent of delivering information caused by word-of-mouth. However, the internet fashion consumers' purchase behavior may have several influential factors even in addition to the sales promotion and the pursuit benefit. Thus, a follow-up research is needed from more diverse perspectives.