Abstract:
The purposes of this research is to study the characteristics of online marketing
communication tools applied by online clothing sellers, and to study their strategies of online marketing communication tool usage. In this study, in-depth interview is used as an approach for data collecting with two target groups: online clothing sellers and online marketers, selected by purposive sampling method based on specified qualifications. The results are conveyed in descriptive analysis report.
The study reveals that, nowadays, the most essential online marketing communication
tools are Facebook and Instagram since their features allow the sellers from presenting images, text and videos to effectively interacting with their customers. By offering the channel of direct contact, these two types of tool efficiently facilitate the customers in their stage of purchase decision. Besides, there is the emergence of new communication tools adopted by these sellers as their online channel of interaction with the customers, for example, LINE Official. The key marketing communication strategy aims to create awareness by presenting interesting marketing content, differentiating their online channels of communication from their competitors, and maintaining quality of their products. In addition to that, the product is reviewed by celebrities in order to motivate the targets purchase decision by the products true quality as well as to create credibility among them. Moreover, the service at pre-purchase stage, purchase stage and postpurchase stage can better impress the customers in their online spending experience