Search Online and Purchase Offline: The Role of Instagram Marketing, Consumer Behavior and Webrooming in Building Brand Loyalty
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https://doi.org/10.47067/ramss.v5i3.241Keywords:
Instagram Marketing, Webrooming, Consumer Behavior, Customer Satisfaction, Brand LoyaltyAbstract
In Pakistan, consumers’ brand loyalty is changing due to emergence of advanced and modern marketing strategies. Therefore, the bricks and clicks businesses are facing allot of challenges because of deviating consumer behaviors in showrooming and webrooming modes. This study aims to explore webrooming as an appropriate strategy for developing brand loyalty for bricks and clicks businesses in Pakistan. The target population of this study was the consumers who purchased different online brands in Pakistan. The data was collected on a five-point Likert scale questionnaire and analyzed through Smart PLS 3.0. This research concludes that bricks and clicks businesses can utilize webrooming to develop brand loyalty by modifying consumer behavior through Instagram marketing. This contribution to the body of literature is remarkable as this area of research was not considered by any earlier studies in consumer behavior domains. The academic and marketing implications of this study are appropriate for developing strategies to modify consumer behavior for brand loyalty with Instagram marketing and webrooming.
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