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Influence of Digital Marketing on Consumers’ Purchasing Decision in Tailoring Industries in Zanzibar: A Case of Special Department Industrial Development Unit (SDIDU)

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The main objective of this research was to examine the Influence of digital marking on consumers’ purchasing decision in Tailoring industry in Zanzibar. Specifically, the study examines the influence of Mobile App Marketing and Social Media Marketing on Consumers’ Purchasing Decision in Tailoring Industries in Zanzibar: A Case of Special Department Industrial Development Unit (SDIDU). A nature of this study is quantitative. Furthermore, questionnaires were given to the customer of SDIDU based on a simple sampling technique. About 269 questionnaires were distributed among customers of SDIDU, only 28 questionnaires were not returned, whereas 241 questionnaires were returned. From the descriptive analysis, the results indicate that over 60 percent of the total respondents were agree and strong agree that social media marketing and mobile apps are influencing consumers’ purchasing decision. The results from multiple regression revealed that social media marketing and mobile apps have positive and significant relationship with consumers’ purchasing decision. The study concluded that through digital marketing were already knows the product and is looking for more information to assess its diverse products and alternatives to complete the purchasing decisions. Finally, according to this result, the study recommended that it is necessary for the firm or company to have a clear strategic plan especial on advertisement of the firm product. This is the world of technology so it impossible for any firm not using a digital marketing tools to advertise their product or/and services especially social media and mobile appl.

Published in International Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (Volume 10, Issue 4)
DOI 10.11648/j.ijebo.20221004.13
Page(s) 106-112
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Keywords

Social Media Marketing, Mobile Apps, Consumers’ Purchasing Decision, Multiple Regression

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  • Department of Marketing, Faculty of Business Administration, Zanzibar University, Zanzibar, Tanzania

  • Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Science, Zanzibar University, Zanzibar, Tanzania

  • Department of Finance and Accounting, Faculty of Business Administration, Zanzibar University, Zanzibar, Tanzania

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