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Kishore Ponnavolu
Partner
McKinsey & Company
Rolph Anderson
Marketing - Professor
Drexel University, Philadelphia,
PA 19104, USA
Outline
Introduction
Objectives of the Research
Concept of customer loyalty
Eight factors potentially influencing e-loyalty
Consequences of e-loyalty
Methodology and results
Conclusion
Introduction
Introduction
E-commerce
Advantages
compare and contrast product & services
minimal expenditure of personal time or effort
E-loyalty
Objectives of the Research
Objectives of the Research
Individuals - 42
Online Customers - 15
Executives in e-commerce - 15
Professional e-commerce web designers - 12
Problems
hard to navigate
insufficient information
response time for inquiries
Solutions
interactive search process
Better navigational process
Increase information
Cultivation
The extent to e-retailer provides relevant information
and incentives to customers
Solutions
Benefits
non-loyal Loyal
Consequences of e-loyalty
Direct implications of loyalty
positive word-of-mouth
willingness to pay more
negatively related to their search for alternatives
Methodology and Results
Methodology and results
Website hosting survey
Random sample of 5,000 customers
An e-mail invitation
Respondents would be automatically entered in a
drawing for a prize of $500
produced 1,211 usable responses – 24%
Measurement - Scale items for the 8Cs
01 ●
Generate the initial pool of scale items
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online shoppers, site administrators, information technology professionals
03 ●
Six academic researchers then evaluated
04 ●
pretested with 25 random online shoppers
Validation of measures
Avoid using the same set of responses to refine the
scale items and evaluate the hypotheses
an exploratory data set (n - 180)
a confirmatory data set (n - 180)
model estimation data set (n - 851)
Research perspective
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