Recently, social network service is developing rapidly as technology changes with new mobile dimensions and features creating positive opportunities and benefits to all users and companies. Social network services are allowing companies to expand their businesses and brands by utilizing it as a marketing tool to reach customers. This research is intended to identify major online social network services and their trends while enhancing the understanding of food service business expansion through social networking.

This study examines the relationship between social media marketing and brand loyalty through brand trust. Respondents were drawn from customers of McDonald’s, Malang City, East Java Province, Indonesia. For this study, 130 questionnaires were distributed and data were analyzed using the Structure Equation Model (SEM) version 22 of the AMOS (Analysis of Moment Structure) application. The results showed that social media marketing had an impact on increasing McDonald’s brand trust and brand loyalty. Brand trust influences brand loyalty and brand trust can mediate the influence of social media marketing on McDonald’s brand loyalty. The findings prove that brand trust can mediate the effect of social media marketing on customer loyalty to McDonald’s brand. These results can be explained by the fact that marketing strategies through social media marketing, such as making it easy for customers to get information related to McDonald’s on social media, can contribute to customer trust and that trust is formed because McDonald’s always pays attention to the quality of the products offered. Brand trust can mediate the influence of social media marketing on customer loyalty to McDonald’s brand. This means that information related to McDonald’s on social media is proportional to the quality of the product offered.

The implementation of physical or social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic has an implication on the shifting of conventional to online business activities. This study aims to explore how financial support, perceived benefits, external pressure determine social media marketing as well as understanding the role of internet and e-business technology (IEBT) that occurs in this relationship. This study adopted a quantitative study with Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)-based variance Partial Least Square (PLS), which aims to enhance understanding of the relationship between variables. The surveyed population of this study came from 123 small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) owners in East Java of Indonesia, using an online survey and selected with the convenience random sampling method. The findings of this study indicated that the perceived benefits and external pressure have a positive effect on the adoption of IEBT. However, financial support failed in explaining SMEs’ adoption of IEBT. This study confirmed that the adoption of IEBT has successfully mediated the influence of financial support, perceived benefits, and external pressure on social media marketing. Despite the samples solely collected from East Java, this study is the first step in research related to the social media marketing in SMEs in Indonesia.

디지털혁명이 세상을 주도하는 기업 환경에서 경쟁력을 제고 할 수 있는 새로운 이론과 전략연구는 산업혁명 이후에 끊임 없이 제기되어왔다. 디지털 시대에는 인류 문명의 발전적 도약이 시장의 통찰력을 요구하는 방향으로 새롭게 진화하고 있다. 마켓 4.0시대에 변화된 환경에 맞는 마케팅 전략은 사람을 중심으로 하여 지인 간의 상호작용과 콘텐츠 생산 및 소비의 순환 서클을 구성하는 네트워크 구조로 가고 있다. 이에 SNS 뉴미디어를 통한 혁신적인 마케팅이 대두되고 있는데 그 중심에 서 있는 부류가 바로 소셜 인플루언서이다. 본 연구에서는 과거의 수직적인 마케팅이 아니라 수평적인 마케팅을 통해 소셜 미디어를 무대로 활동하고 있고, 소셜 마케팅의 새로운 주역이 된 인플루언서 마케팅 영역에 대한 필요성을 고찰하고 근간에 대한 이론적 요소를 정리하였다. 그리고 실제 소셜 인플루언서 활동에 대한 분석, 그리고 평가와 전략의 필요성에 대한 근거를 제시하고 그에 적합한 평가 도구를 제시하였다. 앞으로 인플루언서 평가 도구 활용을 통하여 SNS에 기반한 바람직한 콘텐츠의 전파가 기업과 개인에게 새로운 마케팅 강화 전략으로 발전할 수 있기를 기대한다.

Purpose – The research aimed to reveal real decisional behavioral of management institutes in India for social media marketing usage, and analyses of empirical elements of social media consumption pattern. Research design, data, and methodology – The investigation was based around a research methodology using quantitative analysis with appropriate statistical techniques on random surveys of consumers, detailed exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses are applied to assess the empirical validity of the model and multiple regression employed using R studio edition to validate the reliability of the developed models. Results – A new conceptual framework is proposed – the management institutions decision model, providing a tool for effective and more focused decision-making strategies for developing better utilization techniques for social media. Management institutions have different requirements based upon objectives and resources available. The evidence suggests that the administrators need to be more aware of consumer indicators when targeting and designing social media marketing strategy. Conclusions – The research was based on samples and not the entire population of target consumers, providing limitations. As an inferential statistical method was chosen, the results might be susceptible to inaccuracy. The model developed from different age users, thereby providing rich perspectives into social media usage pattern.

Purpose - The purpose of current paper is to identify features of advertisements at social media that generate the ad-click and to further identify if these advertisements lead to purchase. If no purchase is made, then reasons for not making purchase are identified. Users' purchase experience after users clicked at advertisements are also studied. Research design, data, and methodology - Research design followed is exploratory research, where various factors leading to ad-clicks and generating purchase at social media platform were explored. Raw data was gathered by means of survey among a sample of 185 respondents in India using online structured questionnaire. GLM model and multinomial regression were used to analyze the data. Results - Several factors including endorsement by friends, advertisement aesthetics, product reviews, and aggressive pricing played major role in generating ad-clicks. Major impediment to purchase on were product misrepresentation in advertisement, false discounts, and site security. Female users clicked more on social media advertisements and made more purchases compared to their male counterpart. Conclusions - Social media advertisements have significant positive effect on buying behavior of online customers. Transactions culminating from social media ad-click generated significant positive experience for social media users. Thus, social media can be effective marketing tool.

With the increasing trend of popularity of websites and social networking sites, it is quite evident that companies need to take cautionary measures in protecting the reputations with respect to company and brands. In this process, every company should indulge in enhancing their company and brand image through websites and social networking sites that fortify the bonding nature among them. The always-on nature of websites and social networking sites has contributed to their phenomenal marketing power and altered the balance of power between consumers and firms. Websites and social networks are used by hundreds of millions of people to communicate about a huge range of topics, including personal interests, activities, social events and even public issues. The paper explores a case study of the Ritz- Carlton hotel for their marketing strategy and organizational use of their website and social media in communicating with their customers. Even for the normal luxury traveler who would not have previously used the Internet to research a hotel or make a reservation, ritzcarlton.com is making it possible for them to do so in a sense of the luxury and typical Ritz-Carlton style. It seems to be a staple of the company for years to come.

Social capital plays a positive role on corporate business performance and business capacity. The paper utilizes corporate social capital theory to discuss marketing channels of sports goods industry, establishes an influence model of corporate social capital for marketing channels of sports goods industry, and elaborates influences of marketing channel design, channel conflict resolution and channel performance management from three aspects, including structure dimension, relational dimension, and cognitive dimension of corporate social capital. Based on analyzing these influence factors, the paper proposes a countermeasure of utilizing network structure and common belief to expand marketing channels and optimize marketing network; using trust, normative mechanism and system to solve channel conflicts; and making use of trust, cooperation, reciprocal norms and external social network to improve market performance.