Perceived marketing content of online social media and trust of online social media entrepreneurs affecting the decision making to buy sportswear via Facebook of Thai people
Abstract:
The purpose of this research was to perceived marketing content of online social media and trust of online social media entrepreneurs affecting the decision making to buy sportswear via Facebook of Thai people. Methods The samples used in this study were 424 Thai people who interest to buy sportswear via Facebook with both experience and inexperience. Online questionnaires were used as a main method to collect data in this research with IOC of 0.83 and coefficient alpha equal of 0.87. Online Questionnaires were collected from 5 Facebook including 1) sixpackclub.net page, 2) Bebe Fit Routine page, 3) Forcejun, 4) Fitnumgun page and 5) Fit Kab Dao page. This study also applied statistical data analyses with the determination of patterns in the data such as the frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. This research also undertook Multiple Linear Regression with statistical significance at 0.05 to test the hypothesis of this research. Results Hypothesis testing showed that content of online social media including inspirative content, advisory content, intuitive content and emotional /entertaining content by animation of online social media and trust of online social media entrepreneurs including ability to do as agreement, good and fast interaction with customer, number of followers, ability to keep personal and financial information and after sale service have affected on the decision making to buy sportswear via Facebook of Thai people with statistical significance at 0.05. On the other hand, solution content and revealing of customer opinions have not affected on the decision making to buy sportswear via Facebook of Thai people. Conclusion Inspirative content, advisory content, intuitive content and emotional /entertaining content by animation of online social media and trust of online social media entrepreneurs including ability to do as agreement, good and fast interaction with customer, number of followers, ability to keep personal and financial information and after sales service have affected on the decision making to buy sportswear via Facebook of Thai people.