Title
SME fashion brands and social media marketing: from strategies to actions.
Abstract
Fashion industry, including small and medium enterprises (SMEs), is an important contributor to European economy. This study analyses data from six Spanish and Italian SME fashion companiesu0027 in order to understand how fashion brands implement their social media marketing strategies. The research includes a qualitative study, combined with a content analysis of brandsu0027 posts on their Facebook brand-pages. The results suggest that perceived importance of social media as part of corporate marketing strategy is the main driver for brandsu0027 social media marketing implementation, and that brand awareness is the main objective SMEs would like to achieve. The three Spanish brands and one Italian brand appear to take a transactional marketing approach, while the other two Italian brands adopt a hybrid transactional/relational approach. SMEs focus primarily on representation actions; more specifically, promotion and sales.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
IJWBC
Marketing strategy,Small and medium-sized enterprises,Content analysis,Social media,Computer science,Knowledge management,Digital marketing,Qualitative research,Transactional leadership,Brand awareness,Marketing
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
13
4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Artha Sejati Ananda100.34
Ángel Hernández-García219618.86
Lucio Lamberti331.86