Instagram’s growth has drawn the interest of many corporations that are searching for new ways to boost their customer relationships. Given the rapid adoption of Instagram marketing and the inadequate research in that field, the objective of this paper is to examine whether "following" brands...

Building and maintaining brand loyalty is crucial for every organisation in such competitive business environment and organisations in the hospitality industry are not spared. Hotels have made many efforts on branding to gain brand loyalty from their customers and recently they have carried...

Social media content can spread quickly, particularly that generated by users themselves. This is a problem for businesses as user-generated content (UGC) often portrays brands negatively and, when mishandled, may turn into a crisis. This paper presents a framework for crisis management that...

This paper aims at examining the mediating role of online based-brand community (OBBC) through social media platforms (SMP) given the interplay of consumers’ purchasing attitude in a virtual space. To do this, an online survey was used to gauge the views of online consumers so as to establish...

To ensure effective and efficient relationship marketing, brand management has become an asset (pre-requisite) for quality service marketing to thrive. Brands have gone viral to develop communities to interact with existing and novice consumers. However, the relationships between these online...

The purpose of this quantitative-deductive paper is to explore the link amongst customer satisfaction and engagement on social media on repurchase intention in the hospitality industry. The study was conducted on social media because, it is the fastest growing media in history. Data was...

The paper examined the relationship between social media and purchase intention and the mediation role of brand equity within Ghana’s fashion industry. The study was quantitative and employed the survey methodology to sample the views of 500 fashion customers. Statistical Package for Social...

Marketers today use social networking sites as their communication channel to promote their brands. There is a growing importance to this media to increase consumer’s online participation and engagement. The aim of this research it to identify the determinants of consumer brand engagement...

Consumer interactions on social media have been analysed in the literature as sources of information about their ability to generate engagement and knowledge about how to interact with brands. The present study contributes to this line of research, focusing on empirically determining those...

This research focuses on the effects on users’ engagement of different tweet forms including text length, text sentiment and the usage of hashtag, mention, video or picture URL. In the first part, we analyze the tweets of five companies from the apparel industry and finds out that there is no...