Exploring Shopper Insights of Social Media Use in Saudi Arabia

Social media inspired millions of users from all over the world. This media has made the connection more familiar to ones that are more intelligent. This new medium of communication wins the trust of consumers by connecting with them at a deeper level. Global and local companies have recognized soci...

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Main Author: Mohammad Zulfeequar Alam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EconJournals 2017-06-01
Series:International Review of Management and Marketing
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Online Access:https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/irmm/issue/32104/355831?publisher=http-www-cag-edu-tr-ilhan-ozturk
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description Social media inspired millions of users from all over the world. This media has made the connection more familiar to ones that are more intelligent. This new medium of communication wins the trust of consumers by connecting with them at a deeper level. Global and local companies have recognized social media marketing as a potential marketing platform and have utilized with innovations to power their advertising campaign their marketing approach through social media. One cannot afford to not having any presence on the social network channel now a day when their counterparts are having waves of products and services in the market. Despite, the spread of social media and the broad adoption of these various communication tools, there is a lack of studies in Saudi region that conceptualized the goals of objectives of the study. A convenience sample survey has been collected from 226 respondents through using the online survey via Google forms & monkey survey during three months from October to December 2015. The close-ended questionnaire was used, and particular care has been taken to reduce the non-response rate and the error arising out of it. After collecting the data, it was manually edited, coded and then recorded on excel sheet. For descriptive analysis statistics (frequency distribution), Chi-square goodness of fitness test at P. Value 0.05 was applied, and result findings were interpreted accordingly in the study.
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spelling doaj.art-c736540598344c509bd0d576e6b772e92023-02-15T16:22:05ZengEconJournalsInternational Review of Management and Marketing2146-44052017-06-01723263331032Exploring Shopper Insights of Social Media Use in Saudi ArabiaMohammad Zulfeequar AlamSocial media inspired millions of users from all over the world. This media has made the connection more familiar to ones that are more intelligent. This new medium of communication wins the trust of consumers by connecting with them at a deeper level. Global and local companies have recognized social media marketing as a potential marketing platform and have utilized with innovations to power their advertising campaign their marketing approach through social media. One cannot afford to not having any presence on the social network channel now a day when their counterparts are having waves of products and services in the market. Despite, the spread of social media and the broad adoption of these various communication tools, there is a lack of studies in Saudi region that conceptualized the goals of objectives of the study. A convenience sample survey has been collected from 226 respondents through using the online survey via Google forms & monkey survey during three months from October to December 2015. The close-ended questionnaire was used, and particular care has been taken to reduce the non-response rate and the error arising out of it. After collecting the data, it was manually edited, coded and then recorded on excel sheet. For descriptive analysis statistics (frequency distribution), Chi-square goodness of fitness test at P. Value 0.05 was applied, and result findings were interpreted accordingly in the study.https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/irmm/issue/32104/355831?publisher=http-www-cag-edu-tr-ilhan-ozturksocial media user perceptions marketing communication consumer attitude consumer behavior shopper insight saudi arabia
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Exploring Shopper Insights of Social Media Use in Saudi Arabia
International Review of Management and Marketing
social media
user perceptions
marketing communication
consumer attitude
consumer behavior
shopper insight
saudi arabia
title Exploring Shopper Insights of Social Media Use in Saudi Arabia
title_full Exploring Shopper Insights of Social Media Use in Saudi Arabia
title_fullStr Exploring Shopper Insights of Social Media Use in Saudi Arabia
title_full_unstemmed Exploring Shopper Insights of Social Media Use in Saudi Arabia
title_short Exploring Shopper Insights of Social Media Use in Saudi Arabia
title_sort exploring shopper insights of social media use in saudi arabia
topic social media
user perceptions
marketing communication
consumer attitude
consumer behavior
shopper insight
saudi arabia
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