Getting Everyone Onboard: Framing Collective Goal Progress Broadens Participation in Collective Marketing Campaigns.

ABSTRACT: Collective marketing campaigns may feature goals that are not shared equally by all customers, such as a fundraiser for an environmental cause. For such campaigns, how can marketers encourage broad participation? The present research demonstrates that the framing of collective progress in such campaigns can broaden participation by highlighting the "large area" of progress toward the goal, emphasizing progress achieved for campaigns in their late stages and progress remaining in their early stages. We tested this large area hypothesis in the context of a waste reduction drive, examining the reactions of Democrats and Republicans who might be more or less inclined to support the drive respectively. Study 1 examined these processes when the drive was nearing completion, finding that an accum

SUBMITTER: Kim Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6813241 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature