Thursday, November 16, 2006

Internet Marketing for SMEs

Hello
Internet Marketing for SMEs is a project I am undertaking for my MSc Electronic Commerce at Middlesex University.
I will be blogging about it…so don’t forget to add this blog to your favourite if you are interested in internet marketing and employing effective and economical e marketing strategies, tools and techniques.

My dissertation title is:
Employing effective and economical e marketing strategies, tools and techniques for SMEs.

Study Area Review:
Online marketing strategies, tools and techniques

Aim:
Identify and deploy effective and economical e-marketing strategies, tools and techniques for SMEs to improve their competitiveness and to enable them to strengthen their online presence.

Objectives:

  1. To identify, investigate and analyse online advertising strategies and techniques of a SME.
  2. Develop or improve and implement an effective and economical emarketing strategy and techniques.
  3. Test and evaluate these strategies and techniques, before, during and after the campaign.

Research Methodology:
Case study, action research and survey methods.

Project Type:
Pro
blem solving which will involve improving the efficiency and effectiveness of existing approaches, or developing different approaches and theories in different situations.

Resources Audit

  1. The World Wide Web
  2. Textbooks
  3. Journals
  4. Interviews, questioners and companies documentations
  5. No special hardware or software is needed.

Project planning

  1. Literature search
  2. Literature review
  3. Identify and contact a SME
  4. Perform an environment, competitive and demand analysis
  5. Setting goals and objectives
  6. Develop the internet marketing strategy
  7. Define the marketing plan
  8. Recourse allocation
  9. Execution of the marketing plan
  10. Maintain and monitor the execution of the marketing plan
  11. Review and modify the marketing plan, goals and objectives also the strategy if necessary
  12. Complete report
  13. Project completed