Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk memberikan pemahaman yang jelas tentang bagaimana kegiatan social media marketing mempengaruhi kepuasan pelanggan JF melalui identifikasi sosial dan nilai yang dirasakan pelanggan. Untuk mendukung penelitian ini, kuesioner akan dibagikan kepada 200 pelanggan yang juga merupakan konsultan JF Indonesia yang berada di Indonesia. Kuesioner terdiri pertanyaan tertutup dengan tipe pertanyaan skala Likert 5. Software SEM-PLS akan digunakan untuk menganalisis validitas dan reliabilitas data.
Dari hasil penelitian ini, diduga terdapat hubungan positif dan signifikan antara kegiatan sosial media marketing dan kepuasan pelanggan yang dimediasi oleh identifikasi sosial dan nilai yang dirasakan pelanggan. Maka dari itu, kepuasan pelanggan JF sangat dipengaruhi oleh kegiatan sosial media marketing yang baik dan dapat mempengaruhi intensi pelanggan untuk membeli, melanjutkan, berpartisipasi dan bergabung menjadi anggota bisnis MLM.
The business environment has changed rapidly in recent decades, requiring all companies to adjust their business strategies. In entering the digital era 4.0 and the occurrence of the COVID-19 outbreak, all companies must review their marketing strategies and think of ways to engage and maintain its customers amidst the emerging business competition. To achieve this, a company should make sure that they implement an interesting social media marketing especially during the COVID-19 pandemic period. If a company, more specifically a multi-level marketing (MLM) company succeed to satisfy, earn customers' perceived value and exceeds their social expectations, eventually the company will get better outcomes in the long run, such as increasing number of sales, getting customers to participate and continue using the social media, as well as gaining more members to join the MLM business.
The purpose of this study is to provide a clear understanding of how social media marketing activities influence JF customer satisfaction through social identification and perceived value. To support this study, a questionnaire will be distributed to 200 customers who are also consultants of JF in Indonesia. The questionnaire consists of close-ended questions with Likert scale 5 type of questions. SEM-PLS Software will be used to analyze this study.
The results may show that there is a positive and significant relation between social media marketing activities and customer satisfaction, which is mediated by social identification and perceived value. Given that, JF customer satisfaction is highly impacted by the excellent social media marketing activities that influences the customer’s intention to purchase, continue, participate and join the MLM business.