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From July 1995 until July 1996 we followed a group of small companies that were retailing on the Web. We surveyed our sample three times over this period, collecting both quantitative and qualitative data and visible data from their Web sites. Our intention was to initiate research into...
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The Internet presents many possibilities by which small firms can better identify and exploit marketing opportunities …
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-sized enterprises (SMEs). The internet may indeed contribute to rural economies, but only insofar as it is facilitated by infrastructure … contributes to the understanding of rural entrepreneurship as a heterogeneous concept by comparing practice in four distinct rural …
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The purpose of this study is to examine how small businesses (ie owner‐managers) view integrated marketing communications (IMC), its associated advantages and barriers to adopting this new marketing paradigm. This is undertaken by exploring clothing and shoe retailers’ perceptions of several...
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Large firms have traditionally commanded a competitive advantage in the marketplace over small firms by being able to use their financial strength to perform large‐scale market research studies, to design and implement wide reaching advertising campaigns, and to establish computer and...
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This study first empirically investigated key EDI obstacles experienced by US small manufacturing firms and, then, examined the relationships between the identified obstacles and their realized EDI benefits. This research revealed the following important findings. First, four dimensions of...
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The Internet marketing techniques detailed in this article provide tactics to maximize the utility of the Internet as a … vehicle for marketing communications. We found that Internet marketers today must provide increasingly sophisticated users … for this study. Quantitative analysis identified current industry utilization of Internet marketing techniques, as well as …
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Purpose – This study attempts to identify the brand personality dimensions that American firms intend to create in the mind of online consumers by using “forms of online communications” partially based on Ghose and Dou's earlier study. Design/methodology/approach – The operational...
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