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Social media and digital marketing together have revolutionised how companies connect with their target market and created previously unheard growth prospects. Social media sites have become significant for companies in improving brand visibility, consumer engagement, and optimisation of marketing strategies due to the huge database and data-driven analytics (Nuseir & Aljumah, 2020). This report examines the impact of digital marketing on social media and its potential to drive business growth.
This research is based on how digital marketing strategies can be employed effectively to achieve sustainable growth, especially in the highly competitive and dynamic digital landscape. This report synthesises insights from peer-reviewed literature that focus on diverse aspects, including CRM, leadership support, and digital transformation. The review will analyse theoretical and practical aspects to underline the key trends, challenges, and opportunities facing digital marketing and provide a roadmap to businesses on how to maximise their full potential.
It follows a systematic and transparent approach to comprehensively analyse existing literature on how digital marketing through social media affects business growth. Overall, ten relevant peer-reviewed articles were chosen for this paper, which were published between 2020 and 2024, covering a wide variety of regions and industries. ResearchGate, ScienceDirect, and Google Scholar were used in the search for relevant studies. The literature search combined key phrases, including "digital marketing," "social media," "business growth," "customer engagement," and "SMEs." Only those articles where the abstract or objective was highly relevant concerning both strategic and practical significances of digital marketing for the current review scope were considered.
Studies related to empirical investigations, which explore whether organisational performance is impacted or better retention and revenue included in their discussion of digital marketing or social media. The developed problem statement is "How do social media-oriented digital marketing strategies add to quantitative business growth?" For this proposal selected, relevant studies were reviewed as to methodology, core findings and theoretical positions. The identified themes that involved CRM, Leadership Support, and Integrating digital resources were analysed using recurrent patterns identification and gap identification approaches. The review adopts this approach to provide a comprehensive view of how digital marketing can transform businesses in the modern digital era.
Title | Authors | Key Focus | Summary |
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The place of digital advertising in business efficiency with mediating impact of environmental factors in small and medium enterprises of UAE | (Nuseir & Aljumah, 2020) | Analyses the roles of digital marketing on SMEs in the UAE where the environmental factors mediate the process. | Emphasises the relevance of external environmental elements while highlighting the substantial impact of digital marketing on SME performance. |
The reviewed papers point toward a transformative potential of digital marketing in enhanced business growth through key strategies such as customer relationship management by Dastane, (2020) and social media-based communication presented by Owusu-Kyei et al., (2022). Digital marketing's adaptability to different business environments increases its importance even more, as evidenced by SMEs in the UAE and Jordan (Nuseir & Aljumah, 2020) and (Al-Azzam & Al-Mizeed, 2021).
Two dominant streams of thought may be notable concerning digital marketing and business development with social media. The first has focused on resource supply optimisation and technology application as some of the factors that define business success. The rationale for this point of view is that managers can use digital tools and platforms only sparingly if business organisations think that they are going to stay relevant. For example, in Dastane, (2020) & Elhachemi, (2020), studies using the RBV theory, the authors pointed out that resources like CRM systems along with analytics, and social media can be spent most efficiently to get better capture of consumer engagement and consumer retention. It is suitable for organisations operating in very competitive industries where this aspect becomes important.
The second area of study on the topic focuses on contextual and environmental factors. This perspective postulates that digital marketing strategies work because they are pulled by elements from the environment which might be the market, consumer, or leadership. For instance, Nuseir and Aljumah, (2020), & Chatterjee, et al., (2021), where it has indicated that firms operating in developing economies or conditions in volatile markets have to pay attention towards the local market trends and cultural palate.
This literature review identifies digital marketing in social media as one of the drivers of business growth. The synthesis of insights from ten peer-reviewed journals develops key themes such as resource optimisation, customer relationship management, the role of leadership, and the adaptability of strategies to differing market conditions. These results reveal the twin importance of leveraging internal resources effectively and aligning strategy with external environmental factors.
The report points to two schools of thought, namely resource-based optimisation and contextual adaptability. While the former stresses technological tool sets and CRM systems as key assets, the latter emphasises flexibility in the form of responding to environmental challenge processes. Both of these are indeed very insightful, but their limitations enable one to propose an integrative approach combining resource efficiency with context-sensitive strategies.
Al-Azzam, A. F., & Al-Mizeed, K. (2021). The effect of digital marketing on purchasing decisions: A case study in Jordan. The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business, 8(5), 455-463. https://doi.org/10.13106/jafeb.2021.vol8.no5.0455
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