The Use of Digital Marketing: An Analysis of Companies in a Technological Park

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14211/regepe.v9i4.1748

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Marketing Digital, Marketing Digital Strategic Actions, Metrics

Abstract

Purpose: to understand how small companies located in a technology park make use of strategic actions and digital marketing tools to promote their business.

Methodology/approach: an exploratory data collection was systematized, with a qualitative approach, through in-depth interviews with entrepreneurs in the technology park.

Main results: the research demonstrated that entrepreneurs have difficulties in the formation and execution of digital marketing strategies. The knowledge they retain about each tool reflects their use.

Theoretical/Methodological contributions: a framework was built, demonstrating how small companies execute their digital marketing strategies, together with the role of knowledge of the tools and their metrics, in the use and actions performed by organizations.

Relevance/originality: to understand how companies inserted in innovation environments use the different strategic actions that digital marketing offers and how they perform the proper monitoring of these actions.

Social/management contributions: from work, small business managers can recognize what are the barriers encountered in the execution of digital marketing strategies, seeking solutions to overcome these challenges, in the light of their knowledge and the potential impacts on business.

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Author Biographies

Jefferson Dobner Sordi, Universidade Feevale

Doutor em Administração de Empresas, na mesma área. Também é Especialista em Gestão Profissional do Futebol, pela Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul. Atua como professor do Curso de Administração de Empresas da Universidade Feevale, Rio Grande do Sul, (Brasil). 

Manuela Albornoz Gonçalves, Universidade Feevale

 Doutora em Administração com ênfase em Marketing pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, integra o corpo docente da Universidade Feevale, Rio Grande do Sul, (Brasil). 

Luis Henrique Rauber, Universidade Feevale

Doutorando em Diversidade Cultural e Inclusão Social.
Universidade Feevale, Rio Grande do Sul, (Brasil). Coordenador do Curso de Fotografia e do Curso de Publicidade e Propaganda da Universidade Feevale.

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Published

2020-09-02

How to Cite

Victorino, K., Sordi, J. D., Gonçalves, M. A., Rauber, L. H., & Jahn, N. M. (2020). The Use of Digital Marketing: An Analysis of Companies in a Technological Park. REGEPE Entrepreneurship and Small Business Journal, 9(4), 672–694. https://doi.org/10.14211/regepe.v9i4.1748

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