Marketing technology for adoption by small business
Marketing technology for adoption by small business
The adoption of technology for marketing is essential for the survival of small businesses and yet little is understood about owner-manager practice in this area. This paper aims to address that gap through a qualitative study of 24 owner-managed small businesses operating in the visitor economy. It found that there was a strong appetite for the adoption of technology for marketing and a clear recognition of its opportunities particularly related to how it could create a stronger market orientation and more agile marketing, adhering to the principles of effectual reasoning. However, the ability to take advantage of these opportunities was constrained by a lack of knowledge and in particular an inability to measure the return on investment. While the wider implications of the study are limited by the niche sample, a planning model for the adoption of technology for marketing is presented which can be tested through future research.
small business, entrepreneurial marketing, digital marketing, effectuation, Market orientation
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Alford, Philip
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Page, Stephen
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2015
Alford, Philip
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Page, Stephen
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Alford, Philip and Page, Stephen
(2015)
Marketing technology for adoption by small business.
The Service Industries Journal, 35 (11/12), .
(doi:10.1080/02642069.2015.1062884).
Abstract
The adoption of technology for marketing is essential for the survival of small businesses and yet little is understood about owner-manager practice in this area. This paper aims to address that gap through a qualitative study of 24 owner-managed small businesses operating in the visitor economy. It found that there was a strong appetite for the adoption of technology for marketing and a clear recognition of its opportunities particularly related to how it could create a stronger market orientation and more agile marketing, adhering to the principles of effectual reasoning. However, the ability to take advantage of these opportunities was constrained by a lack of knowledge and in particular an inability to measure the return on investment. While the wider implications of the study are limited by the niche sample, a planning model for the adoption of technology for marketing is presented which can be tested through future research.
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Accepted/In Press date: 20 May 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: 7 July 2015
Published date: 2015
Keywords:
small business, entrepreneurial marketing, digital marketing, effectuation, Market orientation
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/426682
ISSN: 0264-2069
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