Marketing Meets Social Media

Author(s):  
Anteneh Ayanso ◽  
Kaveepan Lertwachara ◽  
Brian Mokaya

In Internet marketing, organizations leverage the Internet and related technologies to promote themselves, their products, their services, and their brands. In virtually all sectors, recent advances in Web technologies have dramatically changed the nature and volume of Internet marketing. Competition in online advertising is currently very intense as organizations have shifted their focus from print and other traditional advertising media to emails, search engines, and social media outlets for most of their promotional activities. However, due to the growing convergence of digital technologies, distinguishing one form of online marketing from another is becoming increasingly difficult. The current practice shows that there is a significant overlap of technologies as well as activities in most of the online marketing and advertising outlets. This chapter attempts to provide a classification of the major forms of Internet marketing (or online advertising) available, and discuss the key technological trends, practices, and academic research in each area. In particular, the chapter highlights the changing trends in Internet marketing due to recent developments in Web 2.0 and social media technologies.

Author(s):  
Anteneh Ayanso ◽  
Kaveepan Lertwachara ◽  
Brian Mokaya

In Internet marketing, organizations leverage the Internet and related technologies to promote themselves, their products, their services, and their brands. In virtually all sectors, recent advances in Web technologies have dramatically changed the nature and volume of Internet marketing. Competition in online advertising is currently very intense as organizations have shifted their focus from print and other traditional advertising media to emails, search engines, and social media outlets for most of their promotional activities. However, due to the growing convergence of digital technologies, distinguishing one form of online marketing from another is becoming increasingly difficult. The current practice shows that there is a significant overlap of technologies as well as activities in most of the online marketing and advertising outlets. This chapter attempts to provide a classification of the major forms of Internet marketing (or online advertising) available, and discuss the key technological trends, practices, and academic research in each area. In particular, the chapter highlights the changing trends in Internet marketing due to recent developments in Web 2.0 and social media technologies.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 18-35
Author(s):  
Brendan O'Hallarn ◽  
James Strode

As sport management pedagogy has evolved, an effort has been made to incorporate popular and innovative social media technologies into classroom instruction. Academic research has suggested how the technology can be utilized to provide real-world skills for students and develop proficiencies in an area where many sport management graduates find employment. Notable among the recommendations about social media use by sport management scholars is a lack of research testing the efficacy of these tools in improving curricula. The current study relied on the recommendations of Sanderson and Browning (2015) to use the social media site Twitter to create online partnerships, testing the perceived benefits of such an arrangement through end-of-semester surveys with student participants. While the survey data show a true partnership may be difficult to realize—particularly during a single semester—the benefits of such an assignment were clearly articulated.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Budi Harto ◽  
Rita Komalasari

Almost everyone now has been searching for anything through internet search engines such as Google, e-commerce sites / buying and selling sites, and social media. This online internet marketing program can be started by SMEs easily, several ways that can be applied are by making Google My Business, Google Website, E-Commerce Shopee, and Social media such as Facebook and Instagram. Little Rose as an Indonesian SME that manufactures various kinds of fabric crafts made from fabric makes it has a lot of opportunities to become a marketable product, unfortunately the lack of marketing activities makes it still not widely known. Little Rose needs a new market in order to increase revenue, expand businesses, and create new jobs. After this training, the Little Rose team can still be given further training on the platforms that have been provided. In the future if there is already a budget for marketing, it would be better to create a website with a better appearance, e-commerce sites can be upgraded to become paid if there are already many products, and use social media ads to advertise Little Rose even further Keywords: Internet Marketing, Online Marketing, UMKM, SME


2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 411-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patient Rambe

The increasing prominence of social media marketing in advancing the global reach and visibility of products and services is ideal for the South African tourism industry, which depends on local and international visitors for leveraging its business activities and competitiveness. However, what remains under-explored in tourism literature is the depth of integration of social media marketing into the competitive strategies of emerging tourism small, micro and medium enterprises (SMMEs). To address this grey area, this study explored the extent to which tourism SMMEs utilize social media technologies (SMTs) to extend their market share and the implications thereof for the competitiveness of their business operations. Drawing on a quantitative approach, a survey was conducted on 234 tourism SMMEs’ owner/managers in the Free State province of South Africa to establish the impact of social media marketing on the competitiveness of their businesses. Evidence suggests that tourism SMMEs employed social media marketing predominantly for online marketing of their products/services, promoting their products/services, attracting existing customers, and sometimes, for integrating it into their marketing strategies. Results of correlation analysis revealed that social media marketing is positively and significantly related to the competitiveness of tourism SMMEs. The recommendations for leveraging the integration of social media marketing into the competitive strategy of the small business are provided.


2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clovis Bergère

Abstract:This study explores social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter in particular, as emergent sites of youth citizenship in Guinea. These need to be understood within a longer history of youth citizenship, one that includes street corners and other informal mediations of youth politics. This counters dominant discourses both within the Guinean public sphere and in academic research that decry Guinean social media practices as lacking, or Guinean youth as frivolous or inconsequential in their online political engagements. Instead, young Guineans’ emergent digital practices need to be approached as productive political engagements. This contributes to debates about African youths by examining the role of digital technologies in shaping young Africans’ political horizons.


2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Iva Bubanja

This paper analyzed the changes in the process of creating high -quality products that occurred after the introduction of information -communication technolo gies and the Internet in the enterprises. Internet offeres advantages connected with the possibility of further company development and with the possibility for the high quality products to find their way to target consumer groups quickly and easily. Speci al emphasis will be given to the role of online advertising and social media in the promotion of such products. With the use of digital technologies enterprises have the ability to do business more competitive and to contribute to the growth of the nationa l economy.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.35) ◽  
pp. 777
Author(s):  
Nur Afiqah Mohammad Ishak ◽  
Nurazariah Binti Abidin ◽  
Jegatheesan Rajadurai

Having been born into a technologically advanced, wireless internet society, today's younger generation or the Millennial, is in a better position to be nurtured as the new age online businesses. They are well educated, self absorbed, have a strong sense of independence and highly motivated toward their perception of success. As such, the Millennial generation rushes forward with their marketing strategies to start businesses using social media to reach out their existing and potential consumers. While there have been numerous studies about traditional businesses, there has been little academic research focused on Millennial and which skills needed to become online businesses This paper proposed to measure the association between social media analytical skills and online businesses competencies within the Millennial generation. A questionnaire was used whose respondents were 100 online businesses among Millennial. It is hoped that this study will significantly contribute to a higher success rate in new start ups of online businesses for the Millennial generation. This study will not only enable for further advance the knowledge of Millennial but also to identify key aspects of online businesses competency in digital technologies.


Author(s):  
Ritu Narang ◽  
Prashant Trivedi

The emergence of internet as a strong medium of communication has led to the emergence of numerous marketing avenues with many companies realizing its potential towards promotion of their products (Liang & Huang, 1998). Online marketing platforms offer various opportunities for directing costumers towards the products through online advertising, affiliate marketing, search engine optimization, direct mailers etc. Affiliate marketing is a performance based marketing and known for its cost effectiveness. we have suggested a framework MECHULUP indicating Mobile Friendliness, E-Commerce, Content Quality, Honesty, Audio/Video, Link Building, Social Media, and Persistence.


2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 1449-1476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gladys Yaa Saah Oppong ◽  
Saumya Singh ◽  
Fedric Kujur

PurposeDigital technologies have become indispensable in businesses and are gaining attention in academic institutions context too. Digital technological ecosystems provide a platform to communicate and share their products and services to existing and potential customers. Entrepreneurial startups and companies face internal and external challenges utilizing social media technologies to commercialize their business ideas. The purpose of this paper is to identify opportunities and challenges faced by academic entrepreneurs' startups.Design/methodology/approachThis research has adopted a qualitative approach comprising of semi-structured in-depth interviews with academic entrepreneurs’ startups to find the main challenge they face using social media platforms. The purpose was associated with an exploratory type of study and also included a prominent unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) and technological opportunism (TO) model. The research respondents were 23 academic entrepreneurs startups who were chosen applying purposive sampling. Respondents were given a set of a questionnaire consisting of close-ended questions that are five-point Likert scale. The questionnaire included various parameters to measure the social media challenges the academic entrepreneurs’ startups undergo in the initial phase of their businesses.FindingsThe study identified that business-to-customer relations, brand, reputation, competition and cultural and language influence digital technologies entrepreneurship. While, the findings discovered the extended research model has a positive influence on academic entrepreneurs' intentions to use digital technologies media platforms. The outcome of this paper has thrown more light on which issues are there in digital technologies entrepreneurship, the determinants and actual usage advantages from UTAUT model and TO model that could be properly employed to solve issues of digital technologies media platforms and the potential concerning the adoption and use of digital technologies.Originality/valueThe study of academic entrepreneurs' startups can be considered original in nature. There is dearth of standard literature in the upcoming area of academic entrepreneurship. Governments are taking initiatives to promote academic entrepreneurs' startups, and the findings will be able to give them a right direction.


2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 456-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Stordy

Purpose – Digital technologies have transformed what it means to be literate and to experience literacy. Various literacies have been coined to capture this transformation including established literacies like computer literacy, information literacy, digital literacy, media literacy and internet literacy, to newer conceptions like transliteracy, metaliteracy and multimodal literacy. The purpose of this paper is to assimilate the various conceptions of literacy and literacy types is becoming increasingly more complex. There is a need for a taxonomy of literacies that reflects more recent developments, one that more comprehensively captures the current literacy landscape and one that might have affordances in the future. Design/methodology/approach – “Library and Information Science Abstracts” (LISA), “Education Resources Information Center” (ERIC) and “British Education Index” were searched for documents relating to digital technologies and literacy. Relevant documents were retrieved and reviewed. This was followed by selective backward and forward citation searching and a further review of relevant documents. Findings – Based on a review of the literature, two significant dimensions of literacy were identified. These dimensions were used to create a literacy framework to enable the classification of literacies and literacy types, i.e. a taxonomy of literacies. This taxonomy was successfully applied to various prominent literacies and literacy types. Research limitations/implications – The literacy framework was only applied to those literacies and literacy types that are directly or indirectly related to digital technologies. Originality/value – There have been a few attempts to classify some literacy types. When conceived, these classifications comprehensively captured some aspect of the literacy landscape. However, they are now dated and there is a need for a taxonomy of literacies that meets the needs identified above. This paper proposes a taxonomy that meets these criteria.


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