Social media: The new hybrid element of the promotion mix
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...Similarly, Mangold and Faulds [22] highlighted that social media is changing the relationship between producers and consumers of a message....
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...In recent years, social media have become a new hybrid component of integrated marketing communications (IMC) that allow organisations to establish strong relationships with their consumers (Mangold & Faulds 2009)....
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...Young college students are said to be a demanding consumer population that facilitates the acceptance of social media in an era of consumer control (Mangold & Faulds 2009)....
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...As Mangold and Faulds (2009) suggested, consumers perceive social media as a more reliable source of information about brands than marketer-generated content communicated via the traditional promotional mix comprising advertising, sales promotion and public relations (p. 360)....
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...First, this study echoes Mangold and Faulds’ (2009) argument that social media play a hybrid role in IMC, as they enable companies to produce a unified consumer-centric advertising message to connect with their customers (characteristics of traditional IMC), while in a non-traditional sense, they…...
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...…a variety of online information-sharing formats including social networking sites (SNSs) (e.g. Facebook, MySpace and Friendster), creativity works-sharing sites (e.g. YouTube and Flickr), collaborative websites (e.g. Wikipedia) and microblogging sites (e.g. Twitter) (Mangold & Faulds 2009)....
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...In addition to the interactive aspect, social media has an interpersonal aspect, so normative and informational influences may work for, or against, the brand, depending on consumer engagement (Mangold & Faulds, 2009)....
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...As social media tools enable customers to chat with one another, the content, timing, and frequency of the conversations among social media users are outside managers’ direct control (Mangold & Faulds, 2009)....
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...The flow of information outside the boundaries of the paradigm has generally been confined to face-toface,word-of-mouthcommunications among individual consumers, which has had minimal impact on the dynamics of the marketplace due to its limited dissemination (Mayzlin, 2006)....
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