• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.425-433
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• 2010

The area of tourism events is constantly growing. The competition in the tourism market is also getting so fierce that improving competitiveness through specialized brand personality is necessary to survive. So, this study derives the components of tourism events and clarifies their influences. The research shows that the brand personality of tourism events consists of three factors such as competence/sophistication, excitement and sincerity. As a result of the analysis, excitement and sincerity have impact on the event attitude while competence/sophistication and excitement on royalty.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.3003-3010
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• 2015

In this study, consumer to use digital media is investigated on media engagement, Brand Attachment, Brand Relations Affect and Brand Loyalty of relation. also analyzing the mediating effect of brand relations affect and brand influence in the relationship between media engagement and brand attachment step has its purpose. Data analysis result showed that media engagement is significant effect on Brand Relations Affect and Brand Attachment, Brand relations Affect and Brand Attachment is significantly effected on the brand loyalty. And mediating Effect of brand Relation Affect was investigated by adjusting role between media engagement and brand attachment. Media engagement and brand relations, the influence of the brand attachment, brand relations affect has a greater effect.

• Knowledge Management Research
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.43-66
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• 2024

In an era where digital technology reshapes brand-consumer interactions, this study examines the influence of Nike's Run Club and Adidas' Runtastic apps on loyalty and advocacy. Analyzing 3,715 English reviews from January 2020 to October 2023 through text mining, and conducting a focused sentiment analysis on 155 'recommend' mentions, we explore the nuances of 'hot loyalty'. The findings reveal Nike as a 'companion' with an emphasis on emotional engagement, versus Runtastic's 'tool' focus on reliability. This underscores the varied consumer perceptions across similar platforms, highlighting the necessity for brands to integrate user preferences and address technical flaws to foster loyalty. Demonstrating how customized technology adaptations impact loyalty, this research offers crucial insights for digital brand strategy, suggesting a proactive approach in app development and management for brand loyalty enhancement

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.122-138
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• 2011

This study aims to investigate whether hotel brand personality predicts restaurant loyalty mediated through trust and satisfaction. An experimental design is applied to test six hypotheses that reflect the research questions. The guests who have experienced dining in five star hotels in Seoul are targeted for sampling. A total of 184 faithful cases out of 250 cases have been analyzed. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis of variance, and structural equation modeling (SEM) are employed using the SPSS and AMOS 7. The findings indicate that hotel restaurant customers' loyalty is positively influenced by hotel brand's ruggedness and sophistication. Also, all the variables in brand personality except excitement have a positive impact on hotel restaurant customers' trust. Noticeably, hotel restaurant satisfaction is increased through brand sincerity and sophistication. Finally, both restaurant trust and satisfaction have a positive impact on restaurant loyalty. In conclusion, these findings suggest that hotel practitioners need to develop the influential variables of hotel brand personality to elevate the level of restaurant loyalty.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.10
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• pp.223-233
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• 2014

Even though the features of the products are almost identical, customers' reactions to each product are quite different depending on the brand image. The purpose of this study is to verify the effects of smart phone's brand images on customer's satisfaction and loyalty and compare the differences between user groups of the Galaxy and iPhone, two representative brands of smart phone. In order to do this, their brand images were classified into functional, symbolic and experiential brand images, and customer's loyalty was also classified into attitudinal and behavioral ones to empirically confirm the influence of those factors. The findings showed that functional and experiential brand images had a positive effect on their level of satisfaction, while symbolic brand images did not have a significant effect on it. Furthermore, it was found that the satisfaction level had a significant effect on attitudinal and behavioral loyalty, and attitudinal loyalty also had a significant effect on behavioral loyalty. Finally, a multiple group analysis of the user groups of Galaxy and iPhone determined that there was a statistically significant difference in the channel between customer satisfaction and attitudinal loyalty.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.439-452
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• 2012

This study is to analyse which tourism marketing communication influences on the tourism destination brand equity. Three factors of advertising, publicity, and the words of mouth of tourism destinations were set as tourism marketing communication in order to understand effects of tourism marketing communication on tourism destination brand equity, and tourism destination brand equity was deducted as three factors of brand awareness, brand image, and brand loyalty in order to understand each influential relationship. As a result of empirical analysis, advertising and publicity of tourism destination have positive influence on brand image and words of mouth about tourism destination has positive influence on all brand awareness and brand image. Brand awareness and brand image both have significant effect on brand loyalty, and it was verified that words of mouth about tourism destination among factors of tourism marketing communication has the highest influence.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.360-369
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• 2010

Recently various types of college with different schooling years, different methods of providing education service and so forth, appeared whereas students as their customers also have various traits. This study aims to verify the brand personality congruity difference among college types as well as analyse the effect of congruity on trust, satisfaction, and loyalty. The study undertakes the following researches with five brand personality scale(BPS) which presented in the previous research. First research was rather exploratory to clarify the difference in the personality congruity between college-student according to different types of college. As result, 4-year university was highly congruent in competence, sophistication, and ruggedness, while 2-year college was highly congruent in sincerity and cyber university was high in excitement. The second part of the research analysed the effects of personality congruity on trust, satisfaction, and brand loyalty. Results support that brand personality congruity significantly affects trust, satisfaction, and brand loyalty.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.202-216
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• 2020

In this study, we studied the utility and value of the mileage program as a strategy to strengthen the relationship with customers in the surrogate operation industry. To this end, we conducted a survey of 1,000 customers who used the service more than once, mainly from D company, which has operated the agency operation business for more than 20 years, and analyzed 309 sincerely respondents. Five characteristics of mileage use (emotional benefits, ease of use, economic usefulness, effort to acquire, variety of benefits). Two parameters (brand attitude, brand loyalty) were set, and the dependent variable was set for reuse. As a result of hypothesis test, emotional benefit, convenience of use, and economic usefulness were significant in terms of brand attitude and brand loyalty, and acquisition effort and benefit diversity did not show significant results. The results of this study showed that the surrogate operation industry should strive to strengthen the emotional benefits, convenience of use, and economic usefulness to customers in order to strengthen the relationship with the customers.

• Proceedings of the Korean DIstribution Association Conference
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• 2005.02a
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• pp.159-178
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• 2005

백화점 화장품 채널에서 중간 순위에 위치한 LG생활건강 오휘 브랜드는 자사의 약한 브랜드 파워를 고객관계전략을 통해 상쇄함으로써 고객충성도 및 매출 등의 시장성과를 제고시킬 수 있었다. 오휘는 자사의 CRM 활동에 대한 체계적인 리뷰를 통해 문제점을 파악하고, 이를 개선하기 위한 구체적인 전략들을 선정하였다. 선두 기업이 되기 위한 기반인 Critical Mass의 고객을 확보하고, 맞춤형 충성도 프로그램을 개발하여 고객 충성도를 증가시켰다. 또한 전략의 실행력을 높이기 위해서 현장의 직원들이 실제 고객들을 판별해서 편익 프로그램을 구현할 수 있도록 고객 등급을 단순화하였다. 마지막으로 CRM 활동이 전사적으로 자리 잡을 수 있도록 성공사례 공유를 통한 지식 확산과 더불어 성과보상 체계도 이에 연결시켰다. 이러한 일련의 활동을 통해 오휘 브랜드는 시장점유율의 상승 및 경쟁사보다 높은 매출 성장률, 고객만족도 제고를 이루었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean DIstribution Association Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.29-51
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• 2005

Brands are important in the consumer market. They are the interface between consumers and the company, consumers may develop loyalty to brands. also, The late development of industrial marketing explains the near absence of research on Brand Equity in business to business. With recent change, industrial companies have shifted from a production focus to a customer focus. industrial brand is fast developing. The basic purpose of this study is to investigate industrial brand trust and loyalty affecting the Result of business relationship between industrial buyers and suppliers. Factors hypothesized to influence trust in a brand include a number of brand characteristics, company characteristics and consumer-brand characteristics. This research presented a comprehensive constructive model consisting of components of industrial brand trust and loyalty, and then propose the research model base on prior researches and studies about relationships among components of industrial brand loyalty. Data were gathered from respondents who work in industrial buying center. For this study, Data were analyzed by SPSS 10.0 and AMOS 4.0. The results of this research analysis were as fallow. Industrial brand trust and loyalty were positively related with a number of industrial brand characteristics, supplier characteristics and buyer-brand characteristics. relationship commitment. This research newly proposed the concept of 'industrial brand trust and loyalty affecting the Result of business relationship between industrial buyers and suppliers'