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The Relationship Between Fashion Blogs And Intention To Purchase And Word Of Mouth Behavior, Cassidy L. Vineyard

Department of Textiles, Merchandising, and Fashion Design: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Blogs are an influential social media platform and a powerful marketing tool (Hsu & Tsou, 2011). A corporate fashion blog is an online product community. Online product communities established by retailers enable customers to interact with the company as well as amongst themselves (Nambisan & Watt, 2011). Online communities are a social space wherein relationships and ties are formed among the members and a common set of values and norms are established and shared (Nambisan & Watt, 2011).

The objective of this study was threefold. First it explored what factors shape readers’ intention to browse products on blogs. Based on …

Win Your Day: Mary Kay, Agency 345

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Advertising Projects

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The beauty market in which Mary Kay has succeeded for the past 50 years is changing. To ensure the continued growth of the Mary Kay brand, it is essential to create new relationships with the next generation of beauty product consumers and sellers. To do this, Mary Kay must connect to Generation-Y women and match their changing ideals of beauty. Above all else, findings show that Gen-Y women are passionate about what it means to be a woman today. As a group, they have diverse dreams and ambitions, but they share the same desire to be successful. They …