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Effect of Promotional Mix on Credit Card Usage Decisions for Customers of PT BNI (Persero) Tbk Manado Area During the Covid-19 Pandemic Lidya Endah Sugiarti Soewarno, Willem JF Alfa Tumbuan, Arrazi Hasan Jan Master of Management Study Program, Faculty of Economics and Business, Sam Ratulangi University lidyaendah777@gmail.com, alfa.tumbuan@unsrat.ac.id, arrazihasanjan@gmail.com
ABSTRACT The payment system using a credit card is an effort to reduce the use of cash instruments, in addition to debit cards and electronic money. With current technological developments, payment systems made in cash as is generally done, tend to be impractical because they must be provided in various nominal terms. Even the existence of cash becomes a burden on the Central Bank to print and control its circulation. With the ease of doing transactions offered through the use of APMK (Card-Based Payment Instruments), Credit Cards are one of the people's choices in transactions, which shows the development in the number of users. However, since the Covid-19 pandemic, the development of the number of credit card users has shown a decline. This study aims to see how the influence of advertising strategies, sales promotions and personal selling on the decision to use credit cards on customers of PT.BNI (Persero) Tbk Manado Region. The analytical tool used is multiple regressions with the help of SPSS 26 application. The results show that the advertising strategy variable, sales promotion variable, and personal selling have a positive and significant impact on Credit Card Usage Decisions for Customers of PT. BNI (Persero) Tbk Manado Region. __________________ © 2022 Hosting by Research Parks. All rights reserved.
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Article history: Received 12 Apr 2022 Received in revised form 15 May 2022 Accepted 16 Jun 2022
Keywords: Advertising Strategy, Sales Promotion, Personal Selling and Usage Decision.
INTRODUCTION As one of the business activities carried out by banks, financial transactions using credit cards are currently one of the people's choices besides cash transactions because of their convenience and practicality. Credit Cards are APMK (Card-Based Payment Instruments) that can be used to make Copyright (c) 2022 Author (s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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