Electronic Marketing Communications: An Evolving Environment,but Similar Story Regarding the Perception of Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail and Postal Direct Mail |
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Authors: | Susan Chang Mariko Morimoto |
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Affiliation: | 1. Ball State University , Muncie, Indiana, USA;2. Emerson College , Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
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Abstract: | The internet is still a relatively new mass communication tool for advertisers and marketers. When weighing the potential benefits of electronic techniques against the financial investment, spam seems particularly attractive to marketers for either for-profit or non-profit objectives. Since it is unlikely that marketers will decrease their efforts related to spam and postal direct mail as a form of communicating to mass consumers, it is important to track consumer attitudes so that audiences are not subjected to the backlash predicted by psychological reactance. The results of this study found that spam is more irritating than postal direct mail at both T1 (2004) and T2 (2006), and participants in T2 found both direct marketing communication methods more intrusive than those in T1. |
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Keywords: | marketing communications psychological reactance unsolicited commercial e-mail (SPAM) |
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