COMPARING THE BRAND PERSONALITY AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOR IN ONLINE AND OFFLINE CONTEXT OF CONSUMER DURABLE

Abstract

The project mainly revolves around understanding the online and offline brand personality traits that affect the purchase decisions of consumers, how they relate to the brand and how these traits differ across various purchase channels; online and offline. The need of this research is to identify and get insight into what main factors the online consumer takes into consideration when most he buy products on internet what affects their shopping behavior, basic need of this research is to find out what are the main factors affect the online consumer when considering and making a purchase over Internet. The growing use of Internet in India provides a developing prospect for online shopping. If E-marketers know the factors affecting online Indian behavior, and the relationships between these factors and the type of online buyers, then they can further develop their marketing strategies to convert potential customers into active ones, while retaining existing online customers. This project is a part of study, and focuses on factors which online Indian buyers keep in mind while shopping online. This research found that information, perceived usefulness, ease of use; perceived enjoyment and security/privacy are the five dominant factors which influence consumer perceptions of Online purchasing.