IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON CONSUMER BUYING BEHAVIOR
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1.1 INTRODUCTION
New technological inventions can have a great impact in
organizations through its contributions to change the social
environment while expediting sharing of knowledge and the development
of new ideas. (Kling et al, 2005). Social Media will come in handy as a
good example of new technological innovation that is making a great
impact in the organizations of today.
In time past, the social media inspired technologies were seen as a
chapter. But time has proven that wrong. We have seen the world being
transformed daily by these new collective technologies, which is giving
a new hope to organizations with impacts which were never considered
to exist initially.
Today, most organizations are mainly interested in
incorporating social media into the business structures of their
organization, but do not have a proper know-how of what social media is
all about. They also don’t have a tangible channel to ascertain the
gain that these technologies hold for them. In a survey carried out in
2009 by McKinsey and Company, it was discovered that with the
appropriate use of the social media a lot of organizations were able to
benefit from each other in ways such as sharing of ideas, communication
becoming better and the workplace environment becoming enhanced. The
value that social media adds in organizations is huge as an increasing
number of organizations are already endorsing and exploiting the
various opportunities in social media technological innovation. This is
to enable them find support for their various organizational and
business practices (Starmark, 2008;).
Social media hold a lot of interesting
opportunities, but it is important to understand how to utilize it with
its accompanying impact in an organizational context beside where it
is applicable in real‐life projects. The present day organizations
should ask questions like how can employees use social media
technologies to do their work and what impact these have on employees.
These should be pivotal questions for modern day organizations. These
questions can help organizations to understand how social media
technologies work effectively at workplace. Thus, it affords them the
opportunity to review and understand how to utilize what it offers with
its impact on how people interact and work among them as earlier
discussed.
Hill (2009) portrayed Globalization as the
deviation towards a more unified and co-dependent economy which is
historically merging different national markets into one global
enormous marketplace. The Economic Intelligence Unit (2009) announced
that, the global market place was overwhelmed by variations in exchange
rates, the purchasing behavior of consumers and inflation in the
course of the recession that started in 2007. These economic
developments have ended up compelling organizations to redesign their
business strategies so they can be able to communicate their brands
more effectively. Davis (2001) writes that brand is one of an
organization’s most prized assets which simply imply that there is a
demand on the present day organization to understand that it is
important for them to capitalize on their brand. This can help them
maintain a profitable growth and achieve sustained profitability
objectives.
There are various means of building brands, which can come in form
of advertising, meeting specific needs of customers, attaching a
particular image to a service or product, identifying and meeting a
need that competitors are to identify, combative communication and
strategizing price (Burger et al, 2009). As recessions is towering in
recent times of high, it became very imperative for organizations to
maintain honest, clear medium of communication and retain a good image
in a cost effective means (Unit for Economic Intelligence, 2009).
Social media marketing was one of the popular channel organizations used
to communicate their brands during the recession. Some of those
mediums are; online electronic media which helps facilitates
participation, responsiveness, consultation, connectivity and
networking amongst online end users (Mayfield, 2008).
Social media channels like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn etc are some of the dynamic tools that have helped facilitate online rapport (Golden, 2011). Relatively, it is a low cost pattern of marketing which allows organizations to engage direct end-users through their contacts (Heinlein and Kaplan, 2010).
Brands and consumers have a changing role to play
in the organization’s strategy given the choices made available to
consumers and the prominent role of social media marketing being that
they now have an impact on the economy (Mayfield 2004, Lindeman, 2008).
Brands have huge influence on customer choice and customers influence
other customers. Affecting repurchases are these series of events,
which goes on to affect earnings in the future and long term
organizational continuity (Oliveira and Sullivan, 2003).
Thus, consumer’s buying behavior is often
influenced by a leading brand. This value is created by generating
demand (via repurchases) and securing of future earnings for the
organization (Sullivan and Oliveira, 2003). Therefore social media
marketing serves as opportunities for communication and depends upon
new and unusual thought patterns (Heinlein and Kaplan, 2010; Kweskin,
2008). This helps customer’s product and brand experience.
This new era of digital communication and social engagement is
preeminent for strategizing in business. Therefore as organizations are
becoming more competitive globally, it is pertinent for them to explore
marketing strategy in a more compelling and innovative way so as to
attract larger number of customers (Rockendorf, 2011).
1.2 PROBLEM STATEMENT
The coming of the Internet and its acceptance by the public, have altered quite a lot in the way organizations promotetheir services and products as well as the channels of communication between them and theircustomers. This is seen in the way they market and communicatetheir brands and products nowadays which is becoming a challenging project.
Customers are overwhelmed by marketing commercials and promotional
events. The sensitivity of customers to get excited is fading out on
promotional events and consumers are beginning to resist the efforts of
some companies at marketing them.
Basically, the promotional focus of some organizations is on the
conventional mass media advert style which includes commercials on TV,
radio jingles and advertisements in print formats such as newspapers
and magazines along with billboard placements. It is now on record that
as the Internet is fast advancing across the global marketplace, the
effectiveness of traditional mass media is fast on the decline.
1.3 Objectives of the research
The main objective of this study is to examine the impact of
social media on buying behavior of consumers. Specific objectives of
the study are:
- To examine students’ perception towards shopping online.
- To examine factors that motivate student buyers to shop through social media platforms.
- To examine how social media channels have affected buying behavior of Lagos state university students.
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
- What perception do students’ have towards shopping online?
- What factors motivate student buyers to shop through social media platforms?
- How have social media channels affected buying behavior of Lagos state university students?
1.5 RESEARCH HYPOTHESES
1. HO: Students have negative perception towards online shopping.
Hi: Students have positive perception towards online shopping.
2. Ho: There is no significant relationship between social media channels and buying behavior of consumers.
Hi: there is a significant relationship between social media channels and buying behavior of consumers.
1.6 SCOPE OF THE RESEARCH
With regard to the objectives, conducting the research from the
perspective of consumers would be a considerably suitable approach. The
researcher realizes that there are many available reports and studies
which rather aims to help businesses to gain a better understanding in
social media marketing but not to help consumers to identify reasons
that social media has changed their decision making process. Since the
purpose of marketing is, in sum, about consumer; therefore, by having
the starting point from the perception of consumer, and by collecting
data from consumers’ point of view, fresh insights can be gathered. The
research also aims to serve as an indicator to potential readers
(companies) of how they can tab into the decision making process via
social media sites. The research focuses on the behavior of end
consumers (individuals) and particularly within the retailing industry,
for instance clothing, food and beverage, consumer electronics, and so
on.
This material content is developed to serve as a GUIDE for students to conduct academic research
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