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ENHANCEMENT OF THE USE OF DIGITAL MARKETING
TECHNOLOGIES IN DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENTERPRISE
Aliev Abdulaziz Ismailovich
Assistant of Department of Marketing of
Tashkent State University of Economics
E-mail: altonmail@yandex.ru
Abstract.
The current scientific article demonstrates for the conceptual frame of digital
marketing technologies, their essence and usages process in enterprises by giving primary
focus on textile enterprise. Also, it highlights for the digital channels spending indications as
well as proposes for the electronic workflow model for the business enterprises’ activities in
creating ease of the working process.
Key words:
digital marketing, emarketing, digital marketing channels, electronic
technologies,
e-commerce, digital marketing technologies.
Introduction
In today’s dynamically developing and emerging times of the economies and
technologies majority of the successful enterprises have started to develop own digital
marketing strategies in order not to lose the market share, market positions and by gaining
superior competitive advantage among other competitors. World giants like Amazon.com. E-
bay, Aliexpress, Wildberries have already implemented outstanding digital marketing
strategies in reaching both local and international customers. In particular, Amazon.com is
considered as world giant in electronic commerce of the products and has its affiliate
marketing system by providing commission to each affiliate that brings a fresh customer to
its web platform in promoting its products online. In the line with online giants, textile-based
industries have also to draw great attention into online business management processes both
in satisfying the needs of the customers and building fruitful and partnering relations with
suppliers, customer and even competitors as well.
A well-developed digital platform have always assist majority of the enterprises in
attracting more customers, delivery of products on time by creating the great ease in the
working process by decreasing the paper work process, out of stock occurrences and
developing effective feedback and working systems among workers of the enterprise and
saving time greatly. Therefore, the development of digital marketing technologies are really
critical for business enterprises in effective management of the workflow process in order to
reach quite much proportion of the income rise of the enterprise.
Moreover, there were a
number of orders, laws, decrees and resolutions like the strategies “On Development of
Republic of Uzbekistan in 2017-
2021”
1
, “The Law of Electronic Commerce of Uzbekistan”
2
,
On Approval of the Strategy “DIGITAL UZBEKISTAN 2030” and measures for its successful
implementation”
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, issued by the Head of Republic of Uzbekistan, for the consolidation of
current areas.
1
Decree On Development of Republic of Uzbekistan in 2017-2021, PD-4749, 07.02.2017.
2
The Law of Electronic Commerce of Uzbekistan No. LRU-385 New Ed. as adopted of May 22, 2015.
3
Decree “On Approval of the Strategy “DIGITAL UZBEKISTAN 2030” and measures for its su
ccessful implementation, PD-6079,
5.10.2020.
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Literature review
There are quite many researches undertaken by several scientists in the variety of fields
of marketing and primarily in the area of digital marketing. Thus, in the earlier stages of the
development of digital marketing area the term of Digital marketing was referred as e-
marketing or internet marketing by being placed in the center of digital business around it and
getting closer to consumers and customers and understanding them much better. Moreover,
by adding value to products or services, by broadening distribution channels and by enhancing
sales levels through undertaking variety of digital marketing campaigns by use of digital media
channels like online advertising, search marketing and affiliate marketing. In addition, broad
attention is given to web site development itself as it is accounted the central part of digital
marketing in generating customer leads in particular.
Chaffey, D. & Smith. PR [1].
Also, it involves broadly for the use of digital technologies in enabling most of the
enterprises and businesses to improve their business operations in development good
customer experience, creation of new business models by providing unique naming of digital
transformation for the ease of all the enterprises transformation process with new and
advanced technological changes. Charlesworth, A [2].
The term of digital marketing can also be defined as a blueprint of conventional
marketing as well as its instruments and strategies on Internet. On the other hand,
characteristics of the digital world itself and its relation for marketing nurtured the
enhancement of channels, languages and formats which ones’ tools and strategies cannot be
imagined as offline. Digital marketing became a new a phenomenon in bringing together so
called customisation and massive distribution in order to achieve marketing goals. Therefore,
technological convergence and the increment of digital devices led for uncovering of the ways
in which people consider as in Internet and which have pushed the limits throughout a new
concept of digital marketing that is user-centric, more measurable, online and ever-present
all the time. The current concept has quite many definitions as well.
Piñeiro
-Otero et al. [3].
At the current moment the usage of digital marketing and digital channels like Internet,
e-mail, mobile communication, digital television has rose dramatically and businesspeople
and especially marketers have to have understanding on how to use these channels for variety
of goals. Majority of enterprises actually use the digital marketing strategy and effective
adoption of depends on an ease of its usage successfully well. The strategy of digital marketing
accentuates how digital type of technologies do make marketing more effective as they do let
for better management of campaign, product, marketing design and execution. Thus, digital
marketing is considered as new phenomenon of traditional type of marketing which lets the
marketer to accelerate two ways of interaction, communicate in a timely manner and
appropriately, to customize services and content advertisement and building with individual
customers. Pushpalatha, M. et al. [4].
The next researcher has described for the ways of evolution of digital marketing,
alternatively, performance of the enterprises, companies and firms as well as consumers have
been altered by forming 4 different systems and their conforming cultural ranges. Thereby,
they do include traditional market system, prosumption market system, collaborative
system, co-creation system as well. Traditional marketing systems focus on relations with
tough division between manufacturers and consumers. Companies manufacture and deliver
products and render services to consumers that have the selection of acceptance or not
exchange at all. Prosumption market system focuses on resourceful role of people whilst
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granting the companies the role of coordination. Collaborative systems emphasize on human
factors that are engaged in value creation process with strong focus toward privacy by
granting those people their peer status. Co-creation systems vague division between
manufacturers and consumers, later one focuses on ability to take part in value creation
process whereas the previous one focuses on yet for the driving of value creating process.
Busca, L., & Bertrandias, L. [5]. The application digital marketing is constructed on traditional
marketing instruments and online technologies. At the same time, usage of first instruments
of online marketing might be argued, in particular for the case of catalogs and e-mail as well.
In the regard to enhancement of individual instruments and up to date elements over time
might include the key elements of digital marketing such as corporate website, context and
banner based advertising, SMM social media marketing, e-mail, influencer marketing by
formulating core digital marketing. Pollak, F. &
Markovič,
P. [6]. Along with international
scientists in the field of digital marketing and marketing that have been already mentioned
above, quite perspective contributions were made to the current field from local scientists
such as Abdukhalilova L.T [7], particularly to the field of internet marketing and digital
marketing, the current scientist focuses on the development processes and stages in internet
marketing by describing core definitions and elements included in this area and broadly
describes how each element is used in enterprise’s development processes as the area of
internet marketing itself is accounted as an integral part of digital marketing. The scientists
Ergashkhodjaeva [8], Ikramov [9], Yusupov [10] have studied the current field from the
marketing perspective itself and by focusing on market and demand development processes
in the market and market conditions. Ergashkhodjaeva suggests for the innovative approach
in marketing by using mobile technologies in the marketing processes of banking services
which draws important attention to develop customer oriented banking services. On the
other hand, the use of digital marketing elements, in particular, digital marketing
technologies in the field of textile enterprises and digital marketing platforms for textile
enterprise’s ease of management have not yet been studied. As the current article, tries to
suggest some of them and that will be mentioned as well.
Research Methodology
The science of marketing gives deep insights in understanding consumers’ and
customers’ needs by delivery of different types of products and rendering of variety of
services. The field of digital marketing involves for the use of different digital technologies
[11]. Thus, in the current research article structural descriptions of digital marketing have
been used and demonstrated. At the same time, statistical data provided by State Statistics
Committee of the country based of textile field performance has also been provided and
analyzed; the approaches of deductive methods have been used as well.
As that can be noticed from (Figure 1) there are quite many types of Digital marketing
elements including E-mail marketing, content marketing, (SMM) Social Media Marketing, Pay
per click, (SEO) Search Engine Optimization, electronic billboards, Mobile marketing, Viral
marketing, influencer marketing.
To start with
Content marketing
that comprises of creating and distributing of content
like pictures, text, multimedia materials which basically adds on values to the audience as
that is critically important in textile based B2B enterprises and businesses and as helps with
electronic reports, webinars and educational videos among the enterprises.
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Figure 1. Types of Digital marketing [12]
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Search Engine Optimization
involves for getting website of the B2B enterprises’ to
appear on the top search results by search engines such as Google, Bing, SEMrush, Yandex,
Yahoo and many others as they include free and organic search of SEO as well as paid search
of pay per click (PPC) that are installed on PCs, mobile phones, PDAs of the enterprise.
Pay Per Click (PPC)
involves for paid type of advertising including Google Adwords or
Bing Ads as well. It is quite similar to natural search, but it usually appears on top page with
a
small box and called ‘Ad’. Businesses can purchase top ranking positions through auctions
according to geographical locations, keywords as this type of tool is found quite useful for
textile enterprises and e-commerce process of textile, apparel products.
Electronic billboards
known as banners is quite similar to traditional print
advertisements, on the other hand, businesses can target specific audiences such as textile
exporters of raw material producers of yarn, knitted clothing and others as programmatic ads
usually booked, analyzed and optimized in automatic manner which given great benefits for
textile enterprises.
Mobile marketing
involves for performing any kind of business activity which is
operated on PCs on mobile phones by adapting to mobile systems of text messaging in
particular, or social messaging apps, advertising apps and others.
Social Media Marketing
is accounted today as one of top priorities given business
enterprises and textile enterprises as well as that includes all elements of social networking
such as Facebook, Telegram, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Bing, Youtube, Ping, Vimeo and
social media elements of digital television and radio broadcasting that are huge resourceful
elements for B2B enterprises.
E-mail marketing
is considered as quite old fashioned but still is really useful element
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Nickerson, A. (2020) Digital marketing
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The top 10 types, retrieved from: https://captivatemediaalaska.com/2020/08/03/digital-
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of instant messaging. In particular, e-commerce based sites and retailing brands of fashion
apparel, textiles are reaching huge success by pushing the products through e-mail messages
and notifications to customers.
Influencer marketing
basically involves for the use of famous celebrities, experts of the
field, authorities with existing audience in promoting different products via Youtube,
Snapchat, Facebook and others. As that is considered as reliable source in textile enterprises
as customers tend to believe more to experts of the field.
Affiliate marketing
involves for the use of outsourcing to other customers or
enterprises that will promote products, but in return for commission. It became quite popular
among bloggers as they can have good influence to audience in persuading the textile
product’s useful a
spects and thus, increasing the income of the enterprise and by adding
extra value to enterprise website in niche audience.
Analysis
аnd
results
Moreover, another important attention is given to spending on digital marketing and
the satisfaction of the needs and wants of customers cannot be reached without digital
marketing elements. Thus,
most of the successful companies like McDonald’s, KFC, Levi’s,
Giordano, Burger King, SAS Institute, Starbucks have successfully implemented digital
technologies and they treat their employees as their first customers as that gives strong
foundation to brand building and enterprises management processes.
Meanwhile, in order to be competitive and to gain significant competitive advantage
the enterprises, companies have to always serve their customers in highly effective and with
the best possible ways. To achieve that these companies should mandatory implement digital
marketing technologies more by building easily accessible website, by being present and
active in social networks, develop blogs both collect and provide feedback regarding possible
downsizes and campaigns that company is going to undertake soon in online basis by making
sure all the customers opt-in an
d well notified about the recent updated about company’s
products and services as well.
Figure 2. Decide which marketing channels to spend on [13]
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As that can be noticed from (Figure 2) most of the digital marketing channel spending
is accounted for Growing SEO with 61%, Blog content creation comprises slightly less than
previous one with 55 percent and marketing automation constitutes for half percent
accordingly. On the other hand, Online tools, EBooks, visual content creation and other
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Monty, S. (2021) How to define your digital marketing budget for 2021, retrieved from: https://blog.yourtarget.ch/en/how-to-
define-digital-marketing-budget.
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elements account for much less indication as indicated in the research conducted by Hook
agency in 2021 and indicated above. As that demonstrates crucial importance of the field of
digital marketing is given in business enterprises, because indicator of growing SEO and blog
content creation top rated positions as that is quite significant in e-commerce management
processes [14].
At the same time, textile manufacturing industry statistics provides ample of
indications of trends in textile industry.
Figure 3. Structure of textile manufacturing industry (in %) [15]
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As noticeable in (Figure 3) the index of manufacturing of textile has faced a slight drop,
in particular that indicator was 11,9% in 2020 and much less with 13,1% in 2018. However,
the current index was 17,2% five years ago in 2015 and faced quite decrease 14,9% in 2016.
The manufacturing of wearing apparel has comprised 3,4 percent in 2020 while the
current index was much higher with 5,2 percent in 2017 and quite less than that with 2,1
percent in 2015, as that demonstrates a little volatizing process in the current field. That last
field is manufacturing of leather and related products. The current field faced slight
increment with 1,2% in 2017 in comparison with a year ago indication of 1,1% in 2016 and
faced sharp drop with 0,5 percent indicator in 2020 as that shows very vital attention should
be drawn to the current fields especially with active development of digital technologies as
that can have a great impact on e-commerce of textile products and their export processes
to broad geographical destinations.
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thor’s work based on data of
State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Statistics, stat.uz (2021).
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14,9
14,2
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11,8
11,9
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4,8
5,2
4,1
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3,4
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2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
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20,0
Manufacture of textiles
Manufacture of wearing apparel
Manufacture of leather and related products
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Figure 4. Electronic workflow and effectc model [16]
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Another element can be noted in (Figure 4) as it demonstrates several elements
included in it and in terms of departments in textile industry. The current model suggest for
the development of the current type of model in development of e-commerce process of
textile products and gaining great efficiency in work flow process. In particular, ICT
department should be responsible for content and dashboard process by providing user
friendly interfaces and content both for employees and customers to make them happy in
general by easily manageable content. Marketing & Sales usually conduct all the research
process and collect feedback. Thus, the current department can measure insufficiencies and
performance by electronic platform and work on effective customer strategies which in
return can lead to increment of sales levels of the textile enterprise and increment of the
income as well. Top management can use electronic platform in major decision process by
being more customer centric in real time which is in return can provide the happiness of
enterprise’s customers as well as deep partnership building process with suppliers
simultaneously which can lead to effective customer relationship process.
Conclusion/Recommendations
Digital marketing technologies have already become the integral part of business
enterprises and that can be critically noticeable both during huge pandemics and in recent
years. Thus, digital marketing technologies involve for the use of digital elements and digital
channels such as content marketing, search engine optimization, social media marketing,
affiliate marketing, influencer marketing, blogging, e-mail marketing, electronic billboards
and online advertising, the system of pay per click (PPC), digital television, radio
broadcasting, electronic magazines and journals, mobile applications and mobile marketing,
internet of things and others.
Thereby, Digital marketing technologies are quite crucial for business enterprises and
specifically for textile based enterprises. Most developed countries are competing for the
market share with great digital technologies offerings and proposals by considering their
customers and suppliers as their business partners.
Meanwhile, the business industries should always follow the track of the most recent
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Author’s model:
Electronic workflow and effect for work efficiency process.
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techno
logical advancement and create the possible ease for the customers’ easily usage
processes of those digital technologies as well as to compete with their competitors equally
in the same line with them. On the other hand, these kind of enterprises should draw
attention changes in the world arena of technological advancement and be prepared for any
huge alterations in technological processes and ever changing marketing surroundings.
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