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Marketing Strategies Of Mobile Game Application Entrepreneurs, Talaya Waller
Marketing Strategies Of Mobile Game Application Entrepreneurs, Talaya Waller
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Mobile game application entrepreneurs can offer many benefits to the U.S. economy; however, 80% of the entrepreneurs in this study stated that marketing their mobile applications was a major business challenge. Successful strategies that entrepreneurs have used to overcome their mobile game application marketing challenges may be beneficial to other entrepreneurs. Based on Schumpeter's theory of economic development and new value creation of technological innovation, the purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the strategies that entrepreneurs have used to market their mobile game application development businesses successfully. Twenty mobile game application entrepreneurs from northern California, who successfully sustained …
Technological Factors For The Sustainability Of The Small Business Entrepreneur, Noghor Pessu
Technological Factors For The Sustainability Of The Small Business Entrepreneur, Noghor Pessu
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Technical innovation creates challenges for the small business entrepreneur who uses global activities in the marketplace. Information technology and the technological innovations of the World Wide Web are driving competitiveness in the marketplace with a loss of market share for the individual business owner. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences and perceptions of a purposive sample of 20 small business owners in the metropolitan Atlanta area regarding the effect of technology, technological insertion, and application for long-term sustainability. Rogers's diffusion of innovations theory served as the conceptual framework of this study. Data were gathered …