Widyagama National Conference on Economics and Business (WNCEB)
Vol 2, No 1: WNCEB 2021

DIGITAL MARKETING SEBAGAI STRATEGI PEMASARAN MACARONI EBOL DALAM MENINGKATKAN JUMLAH KONSUMEN

Mariana Puspa Dewi (Institut Teknologi dan Bisnis Asia Malang)
Mulyaningtyas Mulyaningtyas (Institut Teknologi dan Bisnis Asia Malang)



Article Info

Publish Date
08 Nov 2021

Abstract

Abstrak Pandemi Covid-19 yang belum berlalu dari bumi Indonesia hingga saat ini tentunya sangat memukul UMKM dalam menjalankan roda bisnisnya. Berbagai macam kebijakan pemerintah telah dilaksanakan mulai dari pemberian dana bantuan sosial hingga pelonggaran level PPKM namun belum mampu memulihkan geliat pelaku bisnis UMKM dalam menggerakkan roda perekonomian mereka, tidak terkecuali dengan pelaku bisnis camilan kekinian Macaroni Ebol, sebuah produk snack makaroni dari kota Malang yang telah hadir sejak tahun 2012, menyajikan berbagai macam rasa yang disukai para milenial. Agar tetap dapat survive, berbagai macam strategi pemasaran digunakan untuk dapat mempertahankan dan meningkatkan pangsa pasar yang menurun drastis akibat pandemi ini. Salah satunya adalah menggunakan digital marketing untuk tetap dapat menjangkau konsumen penyuka snack makaroni ini.Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui bagaimana strategi pemasaran melalui digital marketing khususnya marketplace Shopee dan Instagram dalam meningkatkan jumlah konsumen. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan cara observasi, dokumentasi dan wawancara. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa strategi melalui digital marketing Macaroni Ebol sudah tepat sasaran namun harus didukung atau tetap dikombinasikan dengan strategi pemasaran lainnya.Kata Kunci: komunikasi pemasaran, pemasaran digital, strategi pemasaran. Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic, which has not yet passed from Indonesia until now, has certainly hit MSMEs in running their business. Various kinds of government policies have been implemented, starting from the provision of social assistance funds to easing the PPKM level, which have not been able to restore the stretching of MSME business actors in driving their economy, not to mention the modern snack business, Macaroni Ebol, a macaroni snack product from Malang city which has been present since in 2012, serving a variety of flavors that millennials love. In order to survive, various marketing strategies are used to maintain and to increase market share which has decreased drastically due to this pandemic. One of them is using digital marketing to still be able to reach consumers who like this macaroni snack. The purpose of this study is to find out how marketing strategies through digital marketing, especially through Shopee and Instagram marketplaces to increase the number of consumers. This study used qualitative research methods. Data was collected by means of observation, documentation and interviews. The results showed that the strategy through Macaroni Ebol digital marketing was right on target but must be supported or combined with other marketing strategies.Keywords:  marketing communication, digital marketing, marketing strategic.

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WNCEB

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Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Economics, Econometrics & Finance Social Sciences

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Prosiding Widyagama National Conference on Economics and Business (WNCEB) is a Call of Papers activity managed by the Management Study Program, Faculty of Economics and Business, Widyagama University Malang. WNCEB will be published once a year (in November) with various topics consisting of, (but ...