Investigating the Impact of Relation-based Marketing and E-Marketing Capabilities on the Commercial Performance of Internet Sales Sites

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of relation-based marketing capabilities through the mediator variable of e-marketing on the business performance of online sales sites. The present research is applicable in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlative in terms of nature and method of data collection; and is specifically based on structural equation modeling. The statistical population in the present study includes customers of online goods sales sites in Iran such as Digi Kala, Tehran Kala, etc., and according to Morgan's table, 380 people were selected as the sample, among whom the electronic questionnaire was distributed. Sampling method of this research is available. The collection tool in the present study is three questionnaires, which include the business performance questionnaire of Myrles, Randall and Lai (2011), Asikhia (2009), the electronic marketing questionnaire of Tsiotsu and Villachoplo (2011), the questionnaire of relation-based marketing capabilities of Azadegan Foumani (2013). Findings of the research related to the first subhypothesis showed that relation-based marketing has a coefficient of 0.982; in other words as much as 98.2% is related to the business performance of electronic sales sites. Also, the research findings related to the second subhypothesis showed that relation-based marketing has a coefficient of 0.91; in other words, 91% is related to e-marketing. Findings of the research related to the third sub-hypothesis showed that e-marketing has a coefficient of 0.479; in other words as much as 47.9% is related to business performance. Also, the findings of the main hypothesis showed that the relation-based marketing index has a coefficient of 0.457, in other words as much as 45.7% is related to the business performance of online sales sites with emphasis on the mediating role of e-marketing.