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Increasing the Effectiveness of Influencer Marketing: Applying Parasocial Interaction and Cialdini’s Principles of Persuasion

Hjortaas, Anna Elisabeth; Øverås, Regine Ditløvsen
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http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2580086
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2018
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  • Master of Science [1116]
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This study examines whether parasocial interaction (PSI) (Horton & Wohl, 1956)

and the Principles of Persuasion (Cialdini, 1984) can be applied to increase the

effectiveness of influencer marketing. Whereas PSI seeks to explain how and why

people are influenced by others, Cialdini’s research provides a guideline to how the

principles of liking, reciprocity, social proof, consistency, authority and scarcity

can be harnessed to provoke the mechanisms leading to influence.

Serving each their purpose, the theories are carefully integrated in a joint framework

functioning as an influencer marketing guide. The authors test whether the

principles of likability, expertise and consistency are influencer characteristics that

increase the level of PSI. Subsequently, the principles of reciprocity, scarcity and

social proof are tested in order to explore whether they serve as persuasion

techniques that increase purchase intention (PI). In accordance with the proposed

framework, the latter principles are tested separately and when interacting with PSI.

The study approaches a sequential exploratory research design, where a qualitative

method is followed by a quantitative method. With influencer marketing being a

somewhat new topic to undergo study, three qualitative studies were conducted

introductory. Subsequently, the ten hypotheses substantiating the proposed

framework were tested through a quantitative study, using an online questionnaire.

The questionnaire was distributed through Facebook and received 358 respondents.

The findings indicate that PSI relationships can be developed towards influencers

in social media. PSI relationships are further found to positively affect PI,

confirming previous research on the topic. Reviewing influencer characteristics,

liking and homophily serve as significant contributors to the development of PSI

relationships. These findings extend prior applications of PSI to the field of

influencer marketing. Rereading persuasion techniques, when used in influencer

marketing, scarcity is found to positively impact PI. The study contributes with

insights to how PSI, influencer characteristics and persuasion techniques can be

applied in order to effectuate influencer marketing. The guide provides marketers

with an overview of factors that should be emphasized when using influencers in a

marketing strategy, and factors that are of less importance.
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Masteroppgave(MSc) in Master of Science in Business, Logistics, operations and supply chain management - Handelshøyskolen BI, 2018
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