online also continues to climb.
This chapter introduces the teleshopping phenomenon both offline and online. It also reviews social scientific theories that were used to study this phenomenon and explains relevant study findings. Social change implications associated with this form of personalized shopping behavior ard also discussed.
Background
Teleshopping is a form of direct-response mark
control 85% of all personal and household goods spending
Women consume media per day 8.2 hours to 8.8 hours
Women comprise 57% of new internet service provider subscribers
Women went online to explore and 86% stayed because they found information that helped them get through their daily lives
- Women can get all kinds of information they wanted without buying newspaper or magazine
I. About eBay
1. Brief history of eBay
- The world biggest online auction company with 20 M users in more than 150 countries.
- .com company continuously going into the black since 1996
- The most popular online shopping website with the longest time of users’ stay
eBay Inc. (eBay) is one of the successful online business corporations. The very beginning of eBay goes up to 1995. Pier
Role playing
Diversion
Self-gratification
Learning about new trends
Physical activity
Sensory stimulation
Location
Nature and quality of assortment
Price
Advertising and promotion for Positioning of the Retail Brand
Sales personnel
Services offered
Physical store attributes
Nature of store clientele
Point-of-purchase displays
Consumer logistics
(1) Location
1. Reason of Choice & Market Situation
Market Situation
More demands of Smart phones, SNS began to emerge, and users of SNS are growing rapidly. The most widely used SNS in Korea is Cyworld, and recently, growing prevalence of the use of smart phones makes growth rates of Facebook and Twitter more sharply. The most largely activated SNS in the world is Facebook, and also Twitter is growing. In