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Research proposal

Executive Summary
This research proposal is for undertaking research on social media issues impacting consumer
behaviour and decision making. It also outlines situational analysis to important aspects of
marketing with implication to methodological and data collection segments. It takes into
account the various methodologies and ethical standards, originating from works of various
sources.
The complete study signifies the features contributing over social media where consumer
preference deal with respect to engaging with companies and reaching the target audience and
steering the consumer to desire their marketed products. In this report, a prescribed study is
taken that frames the important benefits and effectiveness meant to deduce results in
consumers perspective. The project devised here also plays a crucial measure to explore the
practical work made other than the theory learning. Thus it had a major base in valuing the
management work to get the bottom of core concepts related with life experiences.
The objective of the proposal is to provide a reason why when, how and when social media
has impacted upon the consumer decision making process. As per the previous studies taken
by different authors and their reviews, quantitative research methodology has been adapted.
The data which have been proposed here with respect to the given prescribed demanded
certainty are place here to bind the demonstration the individual customers who have
influenced an enabled the working earning of industry recognition. The explanation making
concentrated upon explaining the way of attends processes, selection and information
gathered by individual upon social media before going for marketing segments. As per the
defined proposition, it reveals the indication to individual pursuance as an active participant
in providing info output in case of social media as compared to mass media. It is found that
the prescribed analysis to expand the appropriate level of spotting decision leads to subjective
and selective conclusion as far as the evident proposal. Again, the data part provides striving
in-depths to any industry who participate in the ongoing marketing process.
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Social media are seen as the warmer of brands. Through the evermore increasing of
competition with respect to branding being sailed for customers, they have reflected a
shopping behaviour thus inciting the impact of sales in their minds. Now the analysis model
comes within a critical section of frame where decision making and identification through
network accessing and making online community is carried out. As per the basics of what
revealed among the demonstration the analysed data shows about the authors where it
projects to ideas differing with their survey role facilitating over social media perception and
interacting concerning the trust among the buyers. The contribution that have affect here
direct the footprints of the described results that lay an implicative behaviour and other
limitations and recommendation that would relate to bind the grass root to future research
pathways.

Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................5
Literature Review.......................................................................................................................6
Research Question- State Research Questions and Objectives..................................................7
Methodology..............................................................................................................................8
Analysis....................................................................................................................................10
Conclusion................................................................................................................................11
References:...............................................................................................................................12

Introduction
In todays world of growing technology, there are many options for interaction to the public
by having the connection with them through the evolution of the social media. The social
media is the sources that use to make the positioning of the pictures and any type of news that
will be easily reachable to the people using it. This route of social media is having the
positioning of the business for its use in the marketing procedure for the further use of having
the involvement of the consumers. The consumers who get into the sites of social media for
getting the brands or their requirements to have some help for taking any type of decision for
buying purpose, that is reason the social media in centred towards creating the impact of it in
consumers mind to have the help in the decision making process (Solomon, 2014). The social
media is such an entity that is basically very much power to have the reaction of word of
mouth that makes the issue in building the relationship between the consumers and the
business parties that make the consumers easy in taking the decision by continuous browsing.
The maximum used social medias are Facebook, Twitter that are very much frequent between
the consumers and going through which the consumers to take the decision of purchasing. By
this process of the social media, the business entities and the stakeholders always get
informed regarding the updates of the consumers (Wang, Yu & Wei, 2012). The most
important participation of social media is it can have the power that will affect the consumer
mind in such a manner that they will definitely get bound to think about the product for the
purchasing process. By going through the social media procedure the consumer can make
their change of mind and take decision to have the purchasing of the product.
Now, there is an important factor to undertake this research since social media offers high
advantage and support to both global business organization and nation thus leading to
promote their services and products. This is a good practice because it doesnt have any
geographic or physical barrier i.e without any constraint to reproduce into the international
market.In this report it discusses the detailed synopsis to overall explanation of current time
growth with respect to certain choice frames implanted over advanced approach in marketing
scope and aggregated knowledge base (Fotis, Buhalis&Rossides, 2012). This report shows
the secondary data activities relating to identify certain contemporary direction that let mass
media promote a trend. This research is successfully undertaken to evaluate the context that
an organization provides towards utilization of tool in order to increase brand integrity. This
shows the people purpose of business in respective hands of consumer.

Literature Review
Business through the online method is the best business as per todays market which makes
the company in taking up various possible ways and opportunities to have their interaction
with the consumers and to reach them with maximum possible accessibility. That is the
reason the activity of social media is getting its demand in getting its reach to the customers
and which gives customers the opportunity of easy access to the sites from which they can
buy their desirable products as per their need. Therefore there have been various researches
that has led to found out that how the social media are being beneficial to the consumers that
they can take a good amount of decision regarding the purchasing of the products. After
going through the research on the use of the social media by the consumers for the purpose of
decision making in buying procedure of the customers, there have been the publishing of the
various results of the research (Cantallops& Salvi, 2014). As per the sated argument devised
by Ethel Lee over the context of social media and its impact over consumer behaviour, there
is a strong correlation between the consumer and the businesses for those who get connected
through the internet. This paper had stated that there has been a millions and billion of people
who are being seen to have spending their time in the social networking site. This came with
a conclusion by Lee that by having frequent monitoring of the social media the consumers
eventually get attracted to the products as they can be able to see various numbers of products
within stipulated time. In another research by NufazilAltaf in the paper Impact of Social
Media on Consumer Buying Decisions, have shown that the social media have very deep
impact on the mind of the consumers and their decision in purchasing process which creates a
new challenge for the marketers and the academia. The paper The influence of Social Media
on consumer behaviour by Liwei Chen made the study regarding the study of the influences
that the social media have in the behaviour of consumers of China. The author of the paper
has basically focussing on the marketing processes of the China which have many beneficial
discussions of social media marketing. ElisabetaIoanas and IvonaStoica in the paper Social
Media and its Impact on Consumer Behaviour has basically focussed on the use of
technology in the working process of the business entities. Therefore the author of the paper
has shown the impacts of the social media by going through the behaviour of the consumer.
Again in a case study that is done by the Lagos State University Students on the Impact of
Social Media on Consumer Buying Behaviour, the students have focussed on the
contributions of the social networking sites or the social media for the marketing and business
of the organizations by using more innovative technologies. Gerald Haubi and Valerie Trifts
in the paper Consumer Decision Making in Online Shopping Environments: The Effect of

Interactive Decision Aids have discussed regarding the development of the business through
the development of eCommerce programs, like the use of social media in increasing the
number of customers with increase in economy (Hutter et al, 2013). The paper Determinants
of Customer engagement in electronic word of mouth in social networking dites by ShuChuan-Chu and Yoojung Kim, have gave a detailed description regarding the incorporation of
marketing strategies in the social media that is making the increase in number of consumers.

Research Question- State Research Questions and Objectives

When social media is concerned, it facilitates the communication thereby increasing salesand
shares info as per the context of business and social supporting for consumer generation.
Making an individual network through social media arrangement, it provides share value that
leads to impact positively upon trust. In todays timeswhen social media expansion is
seen,then consumer behaviour studies over the required platform is show as per research
agendas due to development of marketing strategy and help building trust that affect
theintended customer to let them buy these products (Sparks, Perkins & Buckley, 2013).
Now in order to state the research question sure analysis statement ids made based upon the
defined objectives and goal of achievement. Now the question arises in like manner
questioning that does social media in their networking sites have affected the trust of the
user? As this paper has main focus to examine the role of social factorsthat mean trust, it
thus influences the intention of an individual for buying the online product. This issue can be
understood with the focus given to identifying the factors for social commerce intended
feeling and trust establishing. Now there are four objectives that define the conclusive
exposure to the given question. As per the study given under SNSs, it finds the examination
as to how social media do influence trust among e-commerce sites for ratings and reviews,
communities, forums and online forums (Glimcher& Fehr, 2013). One more objective looks
to relate between the intended buyers and the trust influenced individual. Again one more
objective identifies the examination to relate research orientation between the perceived
usefulness and trust of a given site those have buying intent. In overall context, the given
question examined the indirect and direct influence to buyer individual and trust through the
social media platform.

As per the study the question asks the invented technology acceptance model (TAM)
constructs. Taking along the thorough concept in emergence with social support, social media
build up, concepts of trust and to an interdisciplinary model; it investigates the role to show
its influencing effect the buying intention and their impact upon the trust of the user over
social environment boundary (Glimcher& Fehr, 2013).
There is certain consumer perspective to review services and products is case of social media
platform.These tools are set in priority basis to give focus to purchase it with respect to
decision making. After thorough consideration to decision making building, parameters are
taken care as per the present day scenario giving emphasis over social media marketing and
promotion. This has ascertained a modification setting up major overall identification to scale
the platform (Ferrell &Fraedrich, 2015). Social media has successfully given appeal over its
website and web pages for users to use in large number where the internet users or people
take active interest from whole world. Thus their trust gets more absolute with respect to
buying influencers that state their usage implication to big values.

Methodology

This report shows the incorporation to vivid understanding of methodology framework with
the context to quantitative approach. It uses many modulation techniques that quite surely
provides a distinct coverage to know the insights of data collection and its proposed means of
approach. Digital society has led to the realization of where research is been conducted
mostly in the field of human digitalization. After having a brief survey and taking into
concern the form of marketing various applications for social networking sites have dual
implication over targeting wider audience and influence thus targeting consumer (Saaty&
Vargas, 2013). In this new era for marketing making, there is no dominance of traditional
forms to interact with customer. Again, they have got the power to have their own voice over
opinion in a clear and louder manner through accessing Blogs, websites, microblogs, or
Facebook. In case of YouTube, this is a necessary component to have social media marketing
thus laying a bold significance to consumer behaviour buying aspect.

As per the study of Fiore, Lee and Kim, states the importance of social media marketing and
the decision making impact upon consumer behaviour (Fiore, Lee, Kim, 99). According to
this research 50% or more companies in the United States adopt social media marketing so as
to targets over fresh market thereby winning new customers. It again states that for targeting
user more than 70% size where they use it to gain control and power for doing things as per
their own interest (Goh, Heng& Lin, 2013).
As per the study conducting for Dholakia and Chiang major concentration is given to study
the social media and consumer behaviour(Tsai &Bagozzi, 2014). In this case interviews were
taken with three hundred participantsout of whom eighty percent users made sure agreement
to impact the social media comparing the promotion and product advertisement in a
traditional way. It also reveals the likely statement where social media take on their decision
over purchasing thus enabling trust (Chiang and Dholakia, 179). Therefore, clear
demonstration shows social marketing as a crucial factor that influences the decision of
purchase by users. This decision stands as a robust strategy employing for loyalty winning of
fresh customers.
As per Labarbera, kambil and Koufaris, their study revealed where sixty percent out of two
hundred marketers surveyor, employ the social media marketing and targeting winning for
customers (Labarbera, kambil and Koufaris, 115). This study demonstrates a direct proportion
connection of consumer behaviour and social media marketingand stating it as a planned and
structured strategy that promotes over any specific services or product. This also wins
customer intention through various marketing changes and influencing practices that induces
buying behaviour among customers. This study also reveals that recommendation increases
the chances of product or brand as comparing that to the traditional formulation (Labarbera,
kambil and Koufaris, 125). Again, it shows sixty percent fans over Facebook users and their
possibility over the usage branding type out of which fifty percent have buying interest (Zeng
&Gerritsen, 2014).
The design approach that follows the complex criterion to solve problems is inflicted over
numerous application stages. At times of uncertain situation, it is crucial to micro manage the
hierarchical means so as to create factors that would impact the viability.

Analysis
This article proceeds with a selected approach that incorporates an explanation to collect the
real time data relevant to information gathering so that accurate enhancement is met and
results and efficiency is initiated. In this methodological analysis quantitative findings are
carried out by the researcher with the appropriate hypothesis in order to specify the required
problem statement. Here since information are gathered thus focusing over the close ended
distribution after taking questionnaires from responded users. In this report, a description to
analyse the investigation properly should be impacted where social media marketing process
is influenced meeting strategic advertising. This marks the overall behaviour between the
consumers or otherwise the customers (Goodrich & de Mooij, 2014). This research also states
the mentioned norms related to ethical regulation such that certain issues that have obtained
while conducting the research study is put under compilation. As per the said study over
research activity, sampled data is taken after been permitted by their respective researchers. It
then goes to the process of conduction basing upon the mathematical and statistical measures.
This measure also takes concern to the questionnaires validation which is tested as per the
pilot study methods. As far as data collection procedure is concerned, valid data are collected
by conducting a research survey (Horner &Swarbrooke, 2016). Here there is only the use of
quantitative approach that takes into implementation the exploration to marketing with option
that influences and intersects the whole methodology of decision making within the
consumers. In this process implementation is only done with the uses of secondary data
collection only.
This is a descriptive study of research technique and provides sources related to primary
collection of datas. Since data are collected by asking questions with respect to
Gender, name, marital status, income, usage behaviour, purchasing behaviour and more, thus
there has be a development of instrument to collect these data and make similar
recommendation building a critical analysis segment to social media users.
Now a sampling technique is devised in order to segment the number of users. Since there
users are unknown, for it a convenience sampling is done that makes the social media quite
easy to access and get more benefit as compared to other techniques of sampling. At first
there is a need to define the total population accompanied by determining the sampling frame
(Goodrich & de Mooij, 2014). After this determination event, the technique for using which

sampling method is decides based upon the identification of sample size. Thus this is the
overall process and last stage to sampling.
From previous survey that had undergone, data were collected among two hundred
respondents that use social media. In order to take into understanding various demographic of
consumer in response to social media, many questions were set up. In this caseit comprised
total of fifteen questions out of which mostly contained personal otherwise informal
questions. The range of questions were put up, the first question being about the usage of
social media framework, then second about the usage of social media pertaining to weekly
basis. As per the third question is taken, it comprises the average use time of user used while
in the community medium. Fourth and fifth questions includes about the focus to click over
the advertising buttons and over product purchasing over the social media advertisement page
(Zeng &Gerritsen, 2014). Question eight is left as an optional statement and thus left blank.
Ninth question includes the gender and age group related, and eleventh question focuses
about the overall month salary statement otherwise the level of income. Twelfth question
discusses about asking the study background. The fourteenth question comprises asking
related to the recent respondent employment status. Again, for fifteenth the question is to
know the users contact address, number which can be either optional.
This variations relating to demographic situation can either be tangible or intangible. As per
the demographic, it states the variables that are independent in their act and have relative
significance to dependent variables. This is done taking into concern the usage consumer
behaviour that social media is meant with. Thus, the research clearly pictures the dual
understatement among dependent variables and independent variables.
Since social media is a marketing form being emerged with an expression to concentrate to
promote services or product (Tsai &Bagozzi, 2014).

Conclusion
This particular write up is based on the research of the article that is done for the evaluation
of the social media impact on the purchasing decisions of the customers. The evidences from
the researches shows that there have been an increase in the users of social media in every

growing day which very much overwhelming creates an positive impact for the businesses
and the consumers. The positive impact on the business is it has its marketing in a huge
manner by which it gets the attraction of the customers and the customers were there going
through the various exposures of varieties that they want according their needs and desires.
Therefore it can be said from the discussions that the accessibility and the transparency of the
social media that million and billions of users are accessing has started up the changes by
which the consumers make themselves to have a successful position in todays global market.
That is the reason as the consumers are the regular users of the social media so it is having an
influence on their decision of purchasing of goods from the online sites. Also the customers
get ideas regarding the feedback and the ideas of other people using which makes more
enhancement in their decision of buying which can be said to having a greater impact of
social media on the consumers needs.

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