Internet Usage, Motives and Advertisements: Empirical Evidences from Iran

Introduction

As we can be assured that mainly advertising increases the sales, advertisers have done many researches for the point that are certain advertising effective and based on the results, internet advertisements are a necessity to increase the fame and knowledge for a brand. The internet counts as one of the most important buying portals and has a higher growth rate than the others (Brohan, 2007). The types of internet use affect to Stretch and stimulate the consumer to immediately follow the advertisement and buy online. The user’s response to the seen advertisement mostly depends on their beliefs and attitude towards the internet and these beliefs and attitude mainly come from the mind backgrounds (Brunet and Kumar, 2000). Based on America Institute for Interactive Advertising (IAB) statement in 2012, the profit acquired from online advertisements has extended to 31 billion dollars (IAB. Net, 2012). Actually most of the people nowadays use the internet to keep themselves up to date because of the data diversity in it. Internet affects the people’s learning especially in colleges (Edmunds et al., 2010). The internet ignores physical and geographical boundaries (Law and Leung, 2000; Lee et al., 2005) and provides a diversifying and penetrating environment for business, learning, culture, entertainment, health, and safety for everyone. Therefore knowing the mechanisms of online shopping and the manners of an online buyer is an important factor for managers whom are competing in the vast growing online markets. This topic has also vastly attracted the researchers notice. This point indicates this truth that only in the year 2001, over 120 academic papers have been released attending to this topic (Cheung et al., 2003). This huge amount of research work is not very surprising when looking at the continuous expanding of the internet by the users and the increase of transferred data and the penetration of business. Up till now, about 20% of the people in different countries use online shopping and services (Taylor Nelson Sofres, 2002). Meanwhile more than 50% of the internet users have online shopping all the time (Forrester Research, 2003). Most researchers and managers agree that demographic factors, social, economic, cultural, psychological and other personal factors whom are out of the markets domain and control have an important effect on the buyer’s attitude and the decision to buy (Harrell and Frazier, 1999; Czinkota et al., 2000; Czinkota and Kotabe, 2001; Dib et al., 2001; Jobber, 2001; Boyd et al., 2002; Solomon and Stuart, 2003). Therefore by reading the previous studies regarding the internet uses, this research is going to analyze the importance of demographic variables and the effect of each one of these factors on the amount of deals by Iranians internet users.