The need for small and medium scale enterprises to utilize information and communication technology (ICT) applications to boost their business necessitated this study which bordered on assessing the extent of utilization of e-marketing applications by small and medium enterprises in South Eastern States of Nigeria. Two research questions guided the study. Two null hypotheses were tested at 0.05...

Extensive research has been performed to develop appropriate machine learning techniques for different data mining problems. However, previous work has shown that no learner is generally better than another learner. Comparing machine learning methods depends very much on the characteristics of a particular data set and the requirements of the respective business domain. Direct marketing is an i...

One of the most important requirements of developing appropriate strategies for international marketing is correct identification of target markets. Using quantitative techniques and decision making skills will lead to better results regarding the evaluation of marketing strategies. In this study, first we have used internal factor evaluation (IFE) matrix for recognizing and comparing strengths...

This study was conducted based on primary data collected using a questionnaire. A total of 90 respondents among farmers associations were interviewed in Kano state of Nigeria. Therefore, double stage stratified and purposive simple random sampling technique was used to select 30 respondents in each of three (3) farmers associations, one from each of the three (3) agricultural zones of the state...

Since 2006, many U.S. food and beverage companies have pledged to market healthier foods to children to help combat the childhood obesity epidemic. Despite this, companies' expenditures on online advertising have increased of late. To explore this seemingly contradictory situation, the authors conducted a content analysis of approximately 100 food and beverage brand websites, examining a multit...

Marketing Communication becomes increasingly necessary in today’s competitive environment. It becomes mandatory for the banks to think seriously about how they can compete effectively with other financial institutions. This has led them to pay due importance to marketing communication strategies. Marketing Communication strategies perform two different functions i.e. attract the deposits on one...

Submitted: Aug 10, 2013; Accepted: Sep 6, 2013; Published: Sep 11, 2013 Abstract: A market of services that provide communications between B2B, B2G, B2C segments and inside these segments is referred to as advertising market. Today advertising market is the one of the most dynamically growing market in the world and an important sector of economy. It is characterized by high rate of turnover of...

As a new developed marketing strategy in recent years, viral marketing attracts great attention from scholars and enterprises. Many enterprises try to adopt it for marking new product in order to greatly improve large sales and to quickly recoup the cost. But how marketing efficiency is actually? How fast marketing propagating speed is on earth? Especially for a given deadline, can the enterpri...

With the wide spread popularity of social networking sites (SNS), enterprise organizations have started to explore the business opportunities in SNS such as Facebook to conduct targeted marketing and reputation management. Customers or users tend to trust the opinion of other customers or users, especially those with prior experience of a product or service, rather than company marketing. One o...

this study was conducted based on primary data collected using a questionnaire. a total of 90 respondents among farmers associations were interviewed in kano state of nigeria. therefore, double stage stratified and purposive simple random sampling technique was used to select 30 respondents in each of three (3) farmers associations, one from each of the three (3) agricultural zones of the state...