Abstract:
The objective of this study is to explore marketing strategies that influence customer purchase intention of face whitening cream sold on Facebooks web webpages. 10 individual web pages and 3 public web pages, which have members over 10,000, are selected. Sample consists of 400 Facebook users. The selection of the sample is done by purposive sampling. Data are collected by questionnaire and analyzed by descriptive statistics and factor analysis. From the analysis of 243 questionnaires, it is found that marketing strategies of an individual web page, which would influence customer purchase intention, should 1) raise a buyers trust in a product, a web-page and a seller 2) militate against a buyers risk and perceived risk of a product and financial information 3) employ a product presenter that would help promote a product 4) boost a buyers confidence in buying a product on FB, and 5) focus on quality of a product For a public web page, the marketing strategies should focus on existence of a seller trust in a seller risk and perceived risk of a product and financial information and buyers past experience in buying a product.