The Effect of Social Media Marketing to Satisfaction and Consumer Response: Examining the Roles of Perceived Value and Brand Equity as Mediation
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Social media has become a part of people's lives and an inseparable part of marketing strategies in the emerging digital era. This set of technologies creates new mechanisms and communication tools for companies to interact and engage with potential consumers. This study explores the effect of social media marketing (SMM) on satisfaction and consumer response through perceived value and brand equity. Based on an online survey of 325 users who follow smartphone brands on social media in Indonesia, data were collected and analyzed using partial least squares. The results show that SMM directly affects perceived value and brand equity and indirectly affects satisfaction and consumer response. This study emphasizes satisfaction and consumer response in responding to social media marketing by the company.
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