The discussion on blog issues is getting more and more popular. The marketers begin to put focus on the effects of blog. There have few academic literatures to explain how the blog marketing influences the consumers and what crucial elements included in blog marketing. This research attempts to investigate the effects of blog marketing on brand attitude and purchase intention. In addition, the elements of blog marketing also are identified as community identification, interpersonal trust, message exchange, and two-way communication. The relationships among variables are pictured on the fundamental research framework provided by this study. For the sake of examining the main effect of this framework, the data were collected via an online questionnaire and 727 samples available were collected in the end. The data were analyzed utilizing AMOS 5.0. The empirical findings show that the blog marketing elements can impact on brand attitude positively except for community identification; additionally, these elements have indirect effect on purchase intention. Besides, the analysis result also verifies the moderating effects on the relationship between blog marketing elements respectively and brand attitude.
The discussion on blog issues is getting more and more popular. The marketers begin to put focus on the effects of blog. There have few academic literatures to explain how the blog marketing influences the consumers and what crucial elements included in blog marketing. This research attempts to investigate the effects of blog marketing on brand attitude and purchase intention. In addition, the elements of blog marketing also are identified as community identification, interpersonal trust, message exchange, and two-way communication. The relationships among variables are pictured on the fundamental research framework provided by this study. For the sake of examining the main effect of this framework, the data were collected via an online questionnaire and 727 samples available were collected in the end. The data were analyzed utilizing AMOS 5.0. The empirical findings show that the blog marketing elements can impact on brand attitude positively except for community identification; additionally, these elements have indirect effect on purchase intention. Besides, the analysis result also verifies the moderating effects on the relationship between blog marketing elements respectively and brand attitude.