Digital Marketing and Promotions: Impact on The Works PLC Retail

This report investigates the impact of digital marketing and promotion strategies on the performance of The Works PLC, a discount retail company specializing in books, games, gifts, and stationery. The research aims to analyze the various digital marketing techniques employed by The Works to enhance customer engagement, assess the impact of these strategies on the organization's overall performance, and identify the challenges faced by managers in implementing digital marketing and promotion initiatives within the business environment. The literature review explores the use of social media marketing, search engine optimization, email marketing, and content marketing as key tools for attracting customers, building brand awareness, and driving sales. The report also examines the positive and negative impacts of digital marketing on business performance, considering factors such as increased customer reach, improved communication, and potential challenges related to data security and technological issues. Finally, the report highlights the importance of digital marketing for both developed and undeveloped countries in driving economic growth and enhancing organizational profitability.

Impact of digital
marketing and
promotions on The
Works retail company
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Research aim .........................................................................................................................4
Research objectives................................................................................................................4
Literature review..............................................................................................................................4
Introduction of literature review.............................................................................................4
Main body...............................................................................................................................4
To determine the various digital marketing and promotion techniques used in The works to
enhance their customers.........................................................................................................4
To analyse the impact of digital marketing and promotions on the performance of The works
organisation............................................................................................................................6
To analyse the challenges faced by managers in implementing of digital marketing and
promotion strategy in the business environment....................................................................7
Research gap...........................................................................................................................9
References .....................................................................................................................................10
Books and journals...............................................................................................................10
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Introduction
Digital marketing refers to the promotion and advertising of the company products and
services. It is done through digital channels like social media marketing, search engine, email
marketing and content marketing etc. These channels help the company in enhancing their sales
and profitability and make awareness about their products and services in front of customers.
Further, companies now a days enhancing their awareness and it helps in development of their
products and services (Mullick, Raassens, and Nijssen, 2021). This helps in selling more and
enhancing their sales. Further, these channels will help in developing the performance of
organisation and solving customer complaints and their feedbacks as well. By using these
strategies, company could be able to enhance their brand image in front of customers and they
are developing their awareness of product and services in front of customers. Nowadays, during
a time of covid 19 pandemic, many of the people are not purchasing or buying physically but
they are purchasing digitally through online channels. So, this helps in development of the
company sales and they could be selling their item at a time of covid 19 as well. There are
certain importance of digital marketing channels for the business is that it enhance the customer
base, develops profitability and revenue and targeting customers and handling complaints of the
customer as well. Also, customers are getting certain benefits while using digital channel and
mobile channels. These are sharing their views, get aware about the products company is selling,
finding certain options and varieties etc. these will helps in knowing more about the company
and enhancing their reputation in front of customers and competitors (Amoah, and Jibril, 2021).
While doing digital marketing, company can also provide discounts and offers to the customer so
that they could get more attracted towards the company.
Digital marketing strategies are affecting the developed and undeveloped countries both
through making awareness of the company products and services. In addition, through this,
undeveloped country’s economic condition gets enhanced and they get more profitability. It will
be helpful in development of the organisational and the country as well. However, certain
challenge are also being faced by the managers or the company such as lack of technique issues
and quality differences etc. these should also be considered in mind while implementing digital
marketing strategies within the business environment in order to compete with their competitors
(Alkahtani, Khalid, and Pruncu, 2021). The organisation selected within this given report is
Works plc. It is a discount retailing company which is selling of the books, games, gifts and
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stationery items. Company was founded in the year 1981 and currently it is having 530 stores at
two locations of UK and Ireland. This report consists of research aim and objectives and further
it includes literature review and research gap.
Research aim
“To analyse the impact of digital marketing and promotion on the performance of the
retail organisation.” A case study on The Works plc.
Research objectives
 To determine the various digital marketing and promotion techniques used in The works
to enhance their customers.
 To analyse the impact of digital marketing and promotions on the performance of The
works organisation.
 To analyse the challenges faced by managers in implementing of digital marketing and
promotion strategy in the business environment.
Literature review
Introduction of literature review
Literature review refers to identification and evaluation of the available literature data.
Further, this could be resulting in getting in depth information about a particular topic and
subject. It maintains documents of the state which respect with the subjects and also it synthesis
information in the literature review into the summary. It is presented through analysing books
and already published articles (Llopis-Albert, Rubio, and Valero, 2021). Within this current
research, it is discussed about impact of digital marketing strategies on business performance.
Main body
To determine the various digital marketing and promotion techniques used in The works to
enhance their customers
According to Ibrahim and YESILTAS, (2021) Technology is driven as the most
important in the business environment now a days, they are realizing which marketing strategies
should help in improving their brand image and scale. It helps in development of the organisation
and their profitability as well. Further, these digital marketing strategies will help in creating
awareness of the brand. There are various types of digital marketing strategies such as social
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media marketing, search engine optimization, email marketing, content marketing etc. The first
tool which can be used in the Works plc is social media marketing because this helps in
attracting large number of youth audience. It is a strong presence of social media platform which
is the most important techniques of digital marketing. This consisting of certain channels like
Instagram, Facebook and you tube which is to be helpful for achievement of the organisational
goals and objectives (Septianto, Lee, and Putra, 2021). It includes images and videos and engage
audience with the creative posts. Further, the next tool is search engine optimization- as this is
the another digital marketing technique which involves creating more traffic to the site by
making the websites appears within the higher up in the results in the search engine like Google.
This technique will help in building and improving the brand awareness. It will help in attracting
customer and engaging them within the information provided by them.
The next techniques of digital marketing is email marketing- this is one of the another
most important techniques used in the digital marketing. This is mostly used at a time of hiring
of the people and this will be helpful in sending them information regarding their interview
process or something else. Further, it is helpful for customers in sharing their feedback and
writing complaints regarding any products and services they provide. The another strategy which
can be used in the company is content marketing as it is the creating valuable and relevant
content which is consistent platform. (Hackley, and Hackley, 2021). In relation with the works
plc, they are constantly running campaigns in order to attract audience and their profitability.
The other marketing tool is web advertising- as in this brand in the market create more
effectively by creating the clickable advertisements. These advertisement comes at every
webpages which is clicked by audience or the user. It is to put the advertisements on the popular
websites. These all digital marketing strategies helps in achievement of company goal and
objectives and it helps in development of the company structure (Gupta, and Nair, 2021). Some
of these strategies which are being used in the organisation now a days and if these are used in
Works plc, then it may be resulting in developing of the reputation of the company. If customers
sees different advertisements and posts from the company and they look upon various new
images and posts. These techniques resulting in making promotions and advertising of the
product company is providing.
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To analyse the impact of digital marketing and promotions on the performance of The works
organisation
As per the views of Song, and Song, (2021) Digital marketing has changed the way
company is operating and communicating with the customers. These strategies will help in
creating direct impact on the profit margins and it helps in growing the business in most effective
way. While creating campaigns and the promotion of a particular campaign and the products and
services company is offering is regarded as the most effective strategies that is to be help in
increasing sales of the company. In relation with the Works plc, they are creating positive impact
on the performance of business. As it helps in finding customers that are potential to buy
company products and services. Digital marketing consisting of certain channels which could
helps in identifying the targeted customer. These could be identified by the person who are liking
and commenting on the post which company has posted on the social media websites or who are
creating interest in sharing details about this products and services. The other positive impact
which is seen of the digital marketing is understanding of the channel drive sales for the
company. In relation with the Works plc, it is important to conduct digital marketing strategies in
order to understand which channel is bringing more sales for the organisation.
The next is to communication of the message and contact with both current and
prospective customers (Jacobsen, Stancu, and Lähteenmäki, 2021). Through various digital
media channels, it is important to communicate their customer. So digital media channels like
social media channel, search engine optimization etc. are those platforms where customer can
search for the information and they can even communicate with the executive of the company.
This will helps the company in communicating better with the business and this will be helpful in
achievement of the organisation. Further, the another is establishment of presence online. These
digital marketing strategies helps in generating of the online presence in the mind of customers.
This will be helpful for creating awareness and developing plan for them. The next is to
personalise the brand and control on the messages received from customers. By using digital
marketing company will be able to develop their productivity and the profitability. This will be
helpful in creating reputation among employees and resulting in achievement of their goals and
objectives. Further, these will helps in providing tools that allows to target their core customer. It
will be helpful in targeting the audience who are willing to buy their products and services
(Kholiavko, Popelo, and Sheremet, 2021). On the other hand, there are certain developed
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countries like USA, UK, New Zealand, Belgium, Canada etc. which are using these digital
marketing strategies in order to convert their loss into profits and enhance customer through
buying of their products and services. In USA, they are using Slack and the focus on solutions is
used by the organisations existing in the country. Further, in UK some of the campaigns are used
by organisation to attract audience. These are Audi, the Car Manufacturer: Clowns Are No Joke
etc. these are used in developed countries. Other countries like Canada and New Zealand is using
search engine optimization and content marketing.
In addition, in relation with the undeveloped countries like Niger, South Sudan, Chad,
Burundi, Sierra Leone etc. digital marketing strategies will helps in creating sales for them
developing their economy as well. It helps the undeveloped countries in developing their profits
and revenues within this. Under undeveloped countries, there marketing is not that much better
which is create better impact to than the developed countries. On of the most important digital
marketing tool which is used in the Nigeria is social media marketing and email marketing is
used in Burundi. On the next hand, digital marketing strategies are creating positive and negative
impact both on the companies performance and productivity. As it helps in enhancing employees
productivity as well and provides better facilities to the customer and provides them better
options than the physical stores. It is important to have digital marketing strategies in business
environment (Singh, Wen, and Sin, 2021). However, there are some of the challenge which
could be faced while using digital marketing strategies such as a learning about customers,
managing cash flows, creating creative content making websites accessible. Further, there could
be data and security issues which could be resulting in impacting the business environment. This
could be developing their impact on the company. And these challenges should be considered in
mind as well. In order to achieve organisational goals and objectives.
To analyse the challenges faced by managers in implementing of digital marketing and
promotion strategy in the business environment.
From the views of Troise, and Camilleri, (2021) While implementing digital marketing
strategies and promotion. It helps in developing opportunities for the company and enhancing
their sales and profits as well. This will be helpful in creating reputation of the company.
However, there are certain issue and challenges that are to be faced by managers and organisers
while implementing digital marketing strategies within this business environment. In relation
with the Works plc, the learning about customers- it is important to target the customer and it is
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more important as well. It will be helpful in making advertisements and getting more competitive
within the market. It is important to attract customers and develops their profitability as well. It is
the buyer persona which lets an organisation to target the right audience and understand them
better. Also, it is a challenge to learn more about customer and asking them questions on their
blog and social media pages. The next challenge which is found is managing cash flows as in this
business may be suffer this issue very much because it will helps in creating profitability and
conducting all the activities in most effective manner (Vazquez, 2021). Further, business owners
of the Works plc are focusing towards managing the cash flows and it helps them in development
of the organisational profits and revenue. Further, it is important to cut cost and manage the
expenses which could be explaining the activities and actions taken in the business environment.
In order to develop the research ability it is important to have the effective strategy in
order to develop their potential. Further, creating engaging content is one of the major issues
because customers are the one who are getting attracted towards the creative content if they
found on any of the social media sites or any of the websites. It is important to develop their
potential and this helps in making the company valuable. The other issues is privacy and data
security issues- because these can be the major issues because data contains information
regarding their personal information, contact details and bank cards. Because this will be helping
in the company structure and this will be impacting the organisational performance as well. It is
important to store and keep secure customers data who are paying the amount of the products
and services offered to the,. This will be helpful for achievement of the organisation and
developing their opinions (Ameen, Tarhini, and Anand, 2021). These issues should be
considered in mind because this will be helping the organisation in order to enhance their sales
and profits and revenue.
The other share their regulations and rules and this is important to develop their process
and resulting in achievement of the organisation success. In addition, there are certain strategies
which can helps in overcome from these situations like company should have such data protector
devices which could helps them in protecting their customer data and they could have certain
strategies like creating attractive content and developing their websites are the major strategies in
order to overcome from the strategies behind these issues. If the company is working towards
these strategies then this will be resulting in developing of the organisational performance and
creating promotions for them in order to achieve their overall content. This creates opportunities
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for them and also helps customer in sharing their feedbacks and handling complaints and also
they could be able to chat with their executives at anytime 24/7 hours (Du, Netzer, and Mitra,
2021). This creates flexible working environment and customer base.
Research gap
The main research gap within this research is there are five developed and five
undeveloped countries that used digital marketing strategies. Some of the developed countries
like USA, UK, New Zealand, Belgium, Canada etc. these are using digital marketing strategies
like web advertising, social media marketing and search engine optimization which makes them
popular and customer get more attracted towards their products and services. However, there are
certain undeveloped countries which are not that much efficient to put their functions and this
will not created more profits and revenue as compared with the developed countries. Some of the
undeveloped countries are Niger, South Sudan, Chad, Burundi, Sierra Leone etc. which are not
even having high literacy rate and life expectancy rate. Because of lack of resources and lack of
customer awareness of the products, these countries are not being able to create opportunities
and that is why they are regarded as undeveloped. Further, it is being said that these undeveloped
countries are not using such strategies like content marketing and search engine optimization
(Santosa, Taufik, and Rahmawati, 2021). As these developed countries are having high standard
of living and this helps in developing their product and services. Further, if these undeveloped
countries are having true and fine infrastructure but they could be not be able to get developed
because of low turnover and low cash flows. For this, it is important to manage the budget which
company is having and do accordingly all the activities.
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