scholarly journals Impact of Social Media Marketing On the Consumer Preferences in Restaurant Industry: An Empirical Study of Pakistan

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. 65-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Ijaz A. Qureshi ◽  
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Iqra Nasim ◽  
Dr. Mike Whitty
Author(s):  
Hedwika Avila Diva Putri Kuncoro ◽  
Nurrani Kusumawati

Sleep is a major factor for human physical and mental health and abnormality in a person's sleep, this can cause sleep disturbances. The emergence of sleep disturbances makes sufferers try various sleep aids that might help sufferers to rest well. In Indonesia, many sleeping products have been created and sold in the market. The large variety of sleeping products with various functions and ways of use is a determining factor in adolescence buying sleeping products. They have several considerations before buying the sleeping products they need and want and it is because nowadays, customers have a lot of choices and considerations when they are choosing products and services. Therefore, it is necessary to understand consumer preferences because they play an important role in making purchasing decisions and in improving the marketing strategy to be implemented. For this research, researchers want to identify the important factors that influence the customers’ purchase decision towards sleeping products and find out the product attributes which become preferred by customers. The researcher uses quantitative methods by using questionnaires as primary data and a variety of literature as secondary data. This research uses non-probability sampling and requires a minimum of 200 respondents with criteria aged 17-26 years old and living in Jabodetabek and Bandung. Using Multiple Linear Regression methods, this research aims to identify the relationship between one dependent variable from five independent variables and answer the hypothesis. The overall evidence showed that product, social, personal value dimensions, sales promotion, and social media marketing have a significant positive impact on purchase decisions. Therefore, researchers suggest marketers in the sleeping product industry convey product advantages and personal values, use influencers to promote products or make price discounts and use social media to attract customers because these points influence purchasing decisions.


2019 ◽  
pp. 135481661986780 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun (Justin) Li ◽  
Woo Gon Kim ◽  
Hyung Min Choi

Social media sites serve as lead generators for achieving marketing communication and raising brand awareness for casual-dining restaurant firms. This study attempts to measure social media engagement across different social networking sites (SNSs) and promotional activities for the casual-dining restaurant industry. This study also explores the influence of the dimensionality of social media engagement on the performance of casual-dining restaurants. The findings show that the metrics of social media engagement are different across channels and promotional activities. The results also reveal that these metrics have significant positive impacts on casual-dining restaurant performance. Pragmatically, the findings provide an assessment that enables casual-dining restaurant marketers to select the most effective SNSs and implement the most appropriate promotional activities, given the limited marketing budget of small and medium-sized casual-dining restaurants.


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