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CHAPTER11MARKETINGCOMMUNICATIONINTHELIGHTOFINTERNETDEVELOPMENTTHEORETICAL111
Marketingcommunicationmodelintheonlineenvironmentpresentsamany-to-
manysituation,wherebothbuyersandsellersactivelyparticipateintheexchangeof
information,e.g.onwebsites,insocialmedia,etc.Adetaileddescriptionofthesetools,
called“newmedia”bymanyresearchers(Levinson2010),ispresentedinthesecond
chapterofthemonograph.
ThemethodofcommunicationdiffersintheB2CandB2Bmarketsduetocharacter-
isticsoftheirparticipants.MarketingactivitiesintheB2Cmarketfocusonthesegment
ofindividualpurchasersoffinalgoodsandtheirfeatures:age,gender,income,needs,
interests,lifestyleorplaceofresidence(usuallythesearethecriteriausedtoidentify
segments).B2Bmarketing,ontheotherhand,focusesoninstitutionalentitiesthatare
buyinggoodsforfurtherprocessingorfinalgoodspreparation(Holliman,Rowley2014).
Figure6presentsadiagramofmarketingcommunicationprocessintheB2Bmarket,
inwhichboththesenderandtherecipientareeconomic(business)entities.However,
intheB2Bmarket,actualcommunicationintheformof,forexample,settingtermsof
cooperationandnegotiations,takesplacebetweenpersonsemployedinspecificpositions
incooperatingenterprises.
eigimanufacturing
Economicentity
Sender
company
Form:direct(verbalandnon-verbal)
Media:F2F,phone,Skype,e-mail,
socialmediaplatforms
direct(eigiwritten)
messengers,fairs,
Message
Economicentity/busi-
eigimanufacturing,
tradingcompany
nesscustomer
Recipient
Figure6.SchemeofcommunicationintheB2Bmarketinthecontextofdevelopmentof
theInternetanditstools
Source:ownstudy.
MarketingcommunicationintheB2Bmarketisinterpersonal(individual)9,consisting
ofatwo-wayexchangeofinformationforthepurposeofcooperationofcompanieswhose
representativesarecommunicatingpersons(Holliman,Rowley2014).Mostoftenitis
adirectface-to-faceconversation(F2F)orwrittencommunicationwiththepossibility
9Itsfeaturesarepresentedinsubchapter1.1andinFigure3.
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