Recently, capability and effectiveness of family restaurants' internet marketing is becoming an emerging issue. At this point, on the basis of the observation that main customers of family restaurant and internet users have similar demographic charact...
Recently, capability and effectiveness of family restaurants' internet marketing is becoming an emerging issue. At this point, on the basis of the observation that main customers of family restaurant and internet users have similar demographic characteristics in terms of age, I performed the research on the internet marketing activities carried by family restaurants, summing up the research outcomes on the importance and satisfaction level of internet marketing activities and the results on the behavioral evaluation on the internet users. The research tasks are structured as follows : Assessing the satisfaction level on the critical factors on the internet marketing both ideal and empirical level, verifying the differences between the importance and the satisfaction level, and understanding the behavioral and demographical characteristics of the respondents.
To accomplish the empirical Study, I designed the survey on the internet bulletin board through vb-script programming. In the first survey which was executed to the selected general public, I examined some important factors on internet marketing activities of family restaurants, and in the following survey which was executed to the relevant internet community members who has a great interest on the dining industry and well versed on the internet, I examined the satisfaction level on the internet marketing.
Key results on the analysis are as follows.
First, respondents' opinions on critical success factors of the internet marketing activities carried by family restaurants are in the following order : 'pushing detail information such as menu on the homepage', 'executing various sales promotion activities with coupons and events', 'Quick responses', 'making a alignment between PR and Corporate Identity'.
Second, respondents' opinion on the determinants of the customer satisfaction level on the internet marketing activities are in the following order : 'pushing detail information, such as menu, on the homepage', 'stable performance, such as a speed, of the homepage', 'providing specific information though download function in view of customer convenience', 'comprehensibility of the information given on the homepage'.
Third, results of the statistical verification implies that differences among the variables on critical success factors are not significant among the target companies, and differences of variables on the determinants on satisfaction are significant in the following six factors : 'Stable speed of the homepage', 'running communities for facilitating communication among the customers', Quick responses on the inquiries of the customers', 'Providing various events on internet communities', 'Applying diverse advanced technologies on the homepage', 'Periodic e-mailing services'.
Fourth, results on the IPA analysis implies that customers give higher significance in terms of importance and satisfaction on the factors such as 'detailed information on menu', stable speed of the homepage', 'providing downloading function for the customer convenience', comprehensibility of the information'. On the other hand, the satisfaction level of the factors such as 'bulletin board and visitor's board', 'community of practice', 'periodical e-mailing services' were low despite the high recognition level on the importance.
Fifth, key demographic characteristics of the respondents are as follows. In terms of sex and age, 66.7% of the respondents are female, 85.5% are between twenties and thirties. In terms of the job type, 51.5% are university students and 35% are company workers. In terms of frequency and intimacy on the internet, 96.1% of the respondents are everyday-internet user and 45.8% are using internet 1~3 hours a day. In terms of dexterity on the internet, 79.5% of the respondents replied in "High to Very high" scale, and in terms of the objectives on using the internet, 'for information searching' (47.6%) and 'for hobby' (46.6%) are remarkable responses.