MENINGKATKAN POSITIVE WORD OF MOUTH MELALUI BRAND AWARENESS, BRAND AMBASSADOR, TAGLINE, DAN IKLAN (Studi Pada Konsumen Produk Wardah di Lotte Mart Medan)
This research based on the premise that marketing activities played an im-portant role in increasing the company’s sales volume. Company needed to run markets strategy to achieve sales target which have been set. Therefore, this research aimed to described the positive influence of word of mouth through brand ambassadors, taglines, television advertisements with brand awareness as the mediation that was carried out to consumers of Wardah products in the Lotte Mart Center Point Medan. Population of this study was the number of customers at Wardah Counter in Lotte Mart which cannot be known certaintly. The sample in this study amounted to 100 people. Data collected by questionnaires that were assessed on a Likert scale, each of which was tested and met the requirements of reliability and validity. Data analyzed based on structural equation modeling (SEM) method. The results obtained and at the same time concluded that brand ambassadors, taglines, television advertisements had a positive and significant effect on brand awareness. Brand ambassadors, taglines, television advertisements had a positive and significant effect on positive word of mouth. Brand awareness mediated taglines and advertisements for positive word of mouth. Brand awareness did not mediate brand ambassadors for positive word of mouth.