The Role of Consumer Pleasure Moderating the Effect of Content Marketing and Price Discount on Online Shopping Decision and Loyalty of Generation Z

The phenomenon of the covid 19 pandemics has changed consumer behavior, especially Generation Z who are proficient with social media, but there needs to be a trigger to want to shop at the marketplace. The purpose of this research is to find out empirically about the role of online shopping as mediation, the effect of content marketing, and price discounts on loyalty. consumers, as well as testing consumer pleasure as a moderator. This study uses a population of students who have shopped online at least 3 times using a sample of 100. Using the incidental sampling technique, you are ready to fill out the google form link. The results of this study found that online shopping has a positive effect on consumer loyalty, but online shopping needs encouragement from content marketing and price discounts that make consumers interested. The finding from moderation is that consumer pleasure weakens the effect of content marketing on online shopping, although not significantly. Meanwhile, consumer pleasure strengthens the effect of price discounts on online shopping, although it is not significant. Based on this research, it is proven that discounted prices are more attractive to consumers because they can perform efficiently during this pandemic.

The Effects of Real-Time Content Marketing on Consumer Emotions and Behaviors

This study, carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey, aimed to provide suggestions for creating a successful real-time content marketing strategy. For this purpose, data were collected from 319 participants using the online questionnaire technique. Outcomes of the analysis indicate that while positive perception toward real-time content marketing campaigns can lead to positive emotions, negative perception toward real-time content marketing campaigns can lead to negative emotions. It was also found as an important result that both positive and negative emotions affect negative consumer behavior during the pandemic period. In addition, negative emotions as a mediator variable strengthen negative consumer behavior. As a result, it can be said that real content marketing campaigns also have negative consequences on consumer behavior during pandemics. Consequently, marketing authorities should continue their real-time content marketing activities with this result in mind.

The effects of perceived ease of use, electronic word of mouth and content marketing on purchase decision

Purchasing decisions on the Traveloka application has experienced a significant decline since the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak. Ticket returns and refunds that occur due to travel restrictions have resulted in a decline in Traveloka's brand image. This study aims to analyze how brand image mediates the effect of perceived ease of use, electronic word of mouth and content marketing towards ticket purchasing decisions on the Traveloka application which was conducted on 130 respondents using the Traveloka application. The research was conducted in June 2021 with data analysis using SmartPLS 3.2.0 software. The results show that perceived ease of use had a negative impact on purchasing decisions, either directly or indirectly through brand image. Electronic word of mouth had a positive impact on purchasing decisions either directly or indirectly through brand image. Content marketing had a negative and significant impact on purchasing decisions, while indirectly through brand image had a positive and significant impact. The role of brand image was very important in increasing the effect of perceived ease of use, electronic word of mouth and content marketing towards purchasing decisions.

Content Marketing

The size of the Internet interaction allowed the customer to be part of the marketing of any product, product, services, or other organization. To this end, digital internal marketing promotes a customer-cantered perspective where organizations should focus on customer support and engage them in the value proposition process. An important part of digital marketing is creating value and consumer engagement in content marketing. The purpose of this paper was to provide a ‘content marketing’ test and to gain an understanding of the critical dimensions of this digital marketing strategy, with its basic strategies that companies can use online. The ideas expressed in this study have an impact on the content marketing strategy, as does the effective strategy for other disruptive marketing strategies. In the digital age, the value of digital marketing has increased from one year to the next as part of a marketing strategy developed by organizations of any kind and size. Considering that digital marketing requires the presence of content marketing, the success or failure of a company’s online communication depends largely on the quality of its content marketing. In this context, in addition to advertising high quality content marketing, digital advertisers must perform targeted analysis to tailor their content and select the appropriate method to promote it.

Changes in the Pattern of Marketing Strategies with Content Marketing Strategies to Maximize Product Sales SMEs in North Sumatra

Nowadays, technological development is rapid development. Now technology change can make activities can be easier to carry out, one of them in marketing. Currently, various marketing activities, both small and large sectors, use technology in their development. With the rapid development of technology, marketing is not a difficult thing anymore. One of the uses of technology can be felt in the SMEs sector. The marketing strategy with a strategic content marketing pattern will further increase the growth rate of buying interest in products offered by SMEs. Content Marketing is a strategy where marketers plan, create and distribute content that can attract targeted audiences, then drive them to become customers. Although a content marketing strategy is essential, not all SMEs use digital marketing in running their business. This is because SMEs are often categorized as highlighters in terms of technology. Being left behind in terms of managing content marketing strategy is due to less reliable resources in mastering technology, but SMEs are still required to master information technology to expand a wider market reach. This is because consumers today are consumers who actively use technology in the form of gadgets.

B2B digital content marketing in uncertain situations: a systematic review

Purpose Despite the significant potential of digital content marketing (DCM) to establish public and professional awareness, especially in uncertain situations, no previous research has investigated how to plan business-to-business DCM to help firms and society get through a crisis. Thus, this study aims to offer an integrative framework for providing valuable information for managing uncertainty, particularly during the pandemic crisis. Design/methodology/approach Through the lens of business awareness, this research explores relevant content types that can help firms and society get through the pandemic crisis. For this, the systematic review of 52 articles appearing in publication outlets for more than one decade (2010 to 2021) was conducted. Findings Based on the findings from the literature review, this paper identified two main categories of valuable content types for firms and society during the pandemic, namely, business-centered content types to enhance industrial environment awareness and human-centered content types to raise emotional awareness during the pandemic crisis. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this research delivers the first scientific article that focuses on presenting an integrative framework for providing valuable content types helping firms and society to manage uncertainty.