Along with the rapid growth of virtual shopping trend, products from various fields have been trading through the online, not to mention cosmetic items, and this tendency has been escalating constantly. Comparing to those who make good deals in person...
Along with the rapid growth of virtual shopping trend, products from various fields have been trading through the online, not to mention cosmetic items, and this tendency has been escalating constantly. Comparing to those who make good deals in person, online consumers who depend heavily might have some hard time not only to check the quality of primarily through the further detailed information provided by shopping malls to ensure their purchasing. In accordance with this trend, lots of companies have been offering more thorough information on their products to their customers who are gripped with virtual space. Furthermore the former process is fully conducive to escalate shoppers’ satisfaction as well as to establishing good memory of brand using interaction factors. It can be parsed that the pivotal factor which makes online customers finalize their buying procedure chiefly hinge on meticulous explanation of goods. And it lead to the conclusion that companies want to extract the best pleasant experience from their consumers by using interaction factors. Nevertheless, empirical research on online detail pages was insufficient, and image analysis according to the interaction type of online detail pages was also inadequate.
By analyzing color image interaction types of lip products on detail page, this study attempts to find out how it affects to brand attitude and the purchase intention. Furthermore the research it is also designed to see how customers’ brand preference and inclination for shopping are conditioned with the exact same factors above. This empirical research is conducted on 213 people by structuring several factors : high-priced, medium- and low-priced interaction types (model color development, image color + text interaction, image color development) X shopping orientation (pleasure-seeking/ plan-oriented), brand preference (high-depended/low-depended) X brand attitude and purchase intention.
As a result, these three types of color development images influenced a positive (+) effect on both of brand attitude and purchase intention, leading to the fruitful conclusion that modulating effect of consumers’ shopping orientation and brand preference was significant. Although given the identical images except for brand logos of high-priced, medium-, and low-priced, consumers inclined to respond more positively with high-priced type. In short, the more pricey it is, the more image-interaction preference is drawn. Also the stronger brand penchant, pleasure-seeking shopping orientation and planned-shopping orientation is possessed, the more hopeful attitude is extracted when the image-interaction.
Therefore, this study is meaningful in that it laid the foundation for early research on color image interaction on online shopping mall detail pages and expanded discussions on online detail page lip product color image, shopping orientation, brand preference, brand attitude, and purchase intention. The result of this study suggests that when the high-priced brands are planning to color test of products, they should utilize the image-interaction to obtain more positive responses from their customers. Both brand preference and shopping orientation responded positive to the type of image color development interaction, but the former one is more influential to buyers than the latter factor. Therefore, companies should actively utilize the image color interaction type to induce consumer participation so that consumers can form a favorable attitude toward the brand. various ways to induce product purchases by forming a positive consumer attitude toward the brand and engaging participation through image color interaction types as expensive products require colored-images on online.