Building Brand Relationships Online: A Comparison of Two Interactive Applications

Abstract

Due to its potential for interactive communication, the Internet is considered a promising tool for relationship marketing. In this study, two of the most common applications for interactive communication - personalized websites and customer communities - were experimentally compared for their ability to develop consumer-brand relationships as measured by the Brand Relationship Quality (BRQ) framework of Fournier (1998). Moreover, the moderating role of Internet experience was investigated.