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The ultimate goal of any business establishment is to remain in business profitably through sales of
products or services. Without optimal profit, a business firm cannot survive. One of the core activities
in a business company to stay in business is having a well-developed marketing strategy. To be
successful, banks must look their marketing strategy in relation with the needs and wants of their
customers and it should be implemented effectively to achieve the company’s objectives. Customer
satisfaction is important because many researchers have shown that customer satisfaction had a
positive effect on any business organization profitability. Not only the service, they purchase can satisfy
customers, but also by the bundle of service they got from the organization. Having this in mind, the
study had been designed to assess the effect of celebrity advertisement on customer purchase intension
on customers of commercial bank of Ethiopia.
Data were collected from 300 Dashen bank customers through standardized questionnaire. The
techniques of analysis used in this study is multiple regressions analysis. This study focused on
examining the relationship between variables: (1) credibility, (2) attractiveness, (3) multiple celebrities
that were identified during the literature review and customers purchasing intentions. This relationship
spotlights customers of Dashen bank in Bahir Dar and at large it would be used by the Ethiopian
advertising industry as a contextualization, due to the fact that it was identified a lack of information
about celebrity endorsement overall strategy in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.
Results indicated that the effects of celebrity endorsement (physical attractiveness, credibility, and
multiple celebrities) has significant effect on customer purchase intension and attractiveness,
credibility, and multiple celebrities and purchase intension have positive and significant effects. Hence,
it is recommended that the bank will benefit from advertisements and when it is made using celebrities.
Besides, when selecting celebrities, the personal credibility and use of multiple celebrities are highly
likely to increase customers intention to buy. |
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