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E-marketing and Internet Functions of Agricultural
Products in SME in Greece
Georgios Tsekouropoulos1, Zacharoula Andreopoulou2, Christiana Koliouska3,
Stavroula lefa4 , Theodoros Koutroumanidis5, Christos Batzios6
1
Technological Educational Institution of Thessaloniki, Ǽ-mail: geotsek@mycosmos.gr
2
Laboratory of Forest Informatics, School of Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Box 247, 54124, tel. 2310. 992714, fax. 2310. 992717, Greece,
Ǽ-mail: randreop@for.auth.gr
3
Laboratory of Forest Informatics, School of Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Box 247, 54124, tel. 2310. 992714, fax. 2310. 992717, Greece,
E-mail: Christiana.Koliouska@gmail.com
4
Technological Educational Institution of Thessaloniki, Ǽ-mail: stavlefa@hotmail.com
5
Department of Rural Development, Democritus University of Thrace, Pantazidou 193,
Orestiada, 68200, Greece, E-mail: tkoutrou@agro.duth.gr
6
Lab. of Animal Production Economics, Faculty of veterinary Science,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, tel. 2310.999957, E-mail batzios@vet.auth.gr
Abstract. The permeation of new technologies combined with the high cost for
running a shop force enterprises to search for new sales methods. Network applications
and ICT (Information and Communication Technology) can help achieve e-commerce
goals. In Greece, many enterprises in the agro-food and drink sector already have an
internet presence. This paper studies the adoption of e-commerce in websites that
support e-commerce activities within the agro-food and drink sector. Therefore, the
paper aims to identify and evaluate their qualitative and quantitative content
characteristics, rank them according to 6 content characteristics/criteria using the
multicriteria method of PROMETHEE II and classify them in groups of similar
adoption. The findings of this study reveal the rate of adoption of e-commerce in the
sector and can be a valuable model for the designers of the websites that promote e-
commerce activities within the wider area of wood.
Keywords: e-marketing, internet, network, database, e-commerce, agro-food
and drink sector
1. Introduction
Nowadays, the Internet, apart from a channel to collect information of all kind, it
has also become a means of promotion and consequently, an effective business tool
(Tsekouropoulos et al., 2011). Enterprises use the internet not only for retrieving
information and marketing but also for the enhancement of their communication with
business-partners and customers (Tsekouropoulos et al., 2005). The enterprises aim
at their participation in the internet society since the benefits are high and electronic
systems are ready to serve customers all over the world 24 hours per day 7 days a
week (Andreopoulou, 2008), when the cost keeps decreasing.
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and Communication Technologies
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E-marketing can be defined as the use of Internet and related digital technologies
to achieve marketing objectives and support the modern marketing concept (Eszes,
2010). It includes both direct response marketing and indirect marketing elements,
and uses a range of technologies to help connect businesses to their customers. By
such a definition, e-marketing encompasses all the activities a business conducts via
the worldwide web with the aim of attracting new business, retaining current
business and developing its brand identity (Quirk eMarketing, 2006). E-marketing is
a subset of e-Business that utilizes electronic medium to perform marketing activities
and achieve desired marketing objectives for an organization (Petrovic, 2010). E-
commerce is also a part of e-business. It is the purchasing, selling, and exchanging of
goods and services over computer networks, such as the Internet, through which
transactions or terms of sale are performed electronically (DigitSmith, 2006).
E-marketing gives business of any size access to the mass market at an affordable
price and allows truly personalized marketing. Specific benefits of e-marketing
include (Department of Trade and Industry of United Kingdom, 2004), (The National
B2B Centre, 2011):
Global reach. A website allows finding new markets and trading globally.
Lower cost. A properly planned and effectively targeted e-marketing campaign
can reach the right customers at a much lower cost than traditional marketing
methods.
Trackable, measurable results. Web-analytics and other online metric tools
make it easier to establish how effective the campaign has been.
24-Hour marketing. With a website the customers can find out about the
products even if the office is closed.
Shorter lead times. If there is a website or an e-mail template, the reaction to
events will be more quickly, giving a much more contemporary feel.
A level playing field. With a well-designed website, the enterprise could look
like professional and credible as the larger competitors.
Personalization. If the customer database is linked to the website, then
whenever someone visits the site, can be greeted with targeted offers. DataBase
Management System (DBMS) is a software package that allows data to be
effectively stored, retrieved and manipulated (Andreopoulou et al., 2011).
Openness. By having a social media presence and managing it carefully, the
entrepreneur can built customer loyalty and create a reputation for being easy to
engage with.
Social currency. E-marketing lets the entrepreneur create engaging campaigns
which can gain social currency-being passed from user to user and becoming
viral.
Improved conversion rates. If the enterprise has a website, then the customers
are only ever a few clicks away from completing a purchase.
Together, all of these aspects of e-marketing have the potential to add up to more
sales.
However, e-marketing does have few disadvantages such as (Eszes, 2010): lack
of personal approach, dependability on technology, security-privacy issues,
maintenance costs due to a constantly evolving environment, higher transparency of
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pricing, increased price competition and worldwide competition through
globalization.
E-marketing also includes management of digital customer data and Electronic
Customer Relationship Management (ECRM) systems accomplished through the
Internet, e-mail, and wireless media. Enterprises find in the internet a means to
reduce customer-service costs, to further sustain customer relationships, to extend
marketing messages personally and thus enable mass customization (Johnson, 2002).
Mass customization was defined by Tseng & Jiao (2001) as "producing goods and
services to meet individual customer's needs with near mass production efficiency".
Marketing is considered as a core activity (Basahel & Irani, 2009).
1.1. The website role of an e-market place
Website design is a key issue and also its usability becomes a fundamental
concern. It refers to the fluency or ease with which the client is able to interact with
the system without ‘thinking’ about it. This is in line with the definition of usability
offered by the International Organization for Standardization, which is: ‘‘the
effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction with which specified users achieve
specified goals in particular environments’’ (Hillier, 2003).
But it is not only usability that affects an e-market’s appeal and visits, but also
security, vividness, its correlate riskiness, approval by referent others, feature
organization, quality of content, price, recognizability/desirability of brand, and time
delay/download speed (Blake et al., 2005). Another important factor is the cultural
context of the audience that needs to be taken into consideration.
Since the primary measures of portal success are high levels of user acquisition
and retention, only those e-market places’ websites that attract and maintain the
desired target audience and build valuable customer relationships will have the
potential for long-term success. Even private/informational portals, to become
successful, must entice busy employees to alter well-established informational search
habits (Clarke & Flaherty, 2003).
In Greece, specifically in the sector of food and drink several enterprises have
already a presence in the internet. That facilitates the increase of their total sales as
they attract costumers not only locally at shops but also on the e-shops in the internet.
There are also enterprises without physical shop for holding transactions with the
public thus they exist only in the internet (Seretakis et al., 2010). Nevertheless, it is
evident that there is not yet a complete system in the internet which will fully secure
the safety of e-transactions (Tsekouropoulos, 2009).
This paper provides the case study of SMEs in agro-food and drink sector in
Greek internet. SMEs are ranked and classified in groups as to their e-marketing
features and internet functions accomplished. Additionally, an integrated-dynamic
framework is developed for ranking 66 SMEs in agro-food and drink sector based on
PROMETHEE II and the results are discussed.
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2. Methodology
The SME websites that were used for the research, were collected from the Greek
Internet with the use of proper search engines and keywords concerning, e-
commerce, agro-food and drink, website activities, on-line transactions, e-marketing
e.t.c..
Initially, qualitative analysis was performed in order to examine the type of
common e-marketing criteria found in these e-shop web pages; then a quantitative
analysis was carried out, in order to examine the presence or absence of these
criteria/characteristics.
Various e-marketing services were introduced in the retrieved websites and 6
different criteria were identified and introduced in each website. Each e-marketing
service constitutes a criteria/characteristic and it is finally attributed in a variable xi
(Table 1). Additionally, a 2-dimentional table was developed and was used in order
to examine the existence of criteria and evaluate the services of the websites.
Table 1. Variables attributed to e-marketing criteria to be achieved by the e-shop website
Variable E-marketing services to become criteria achieved by the e-shop
website
X1 Autonomous presence within the internet
X2 Reliability of recipes / Quality certificates
X3 Product exposure / Information provision to consumers
X4 Possibility of access in other websites
X5 Form of communication / FAQ
X6 E-shop / Shopping cart
For that purpose the values were attributed to variables x1 to x6, respectively.
Whenever a criterion was achieved for a website the value 1 was attributed to the
respective variable aiming at justifying the relative service within the evaluation of
the website.
The total amount of e-marketing criteria achieved in each website was also
studied. For each food and drink enterprise website, the total number of achieved
criteria is attributed to a new variable, named t. Variable t presents the sum of e-
marketing services achieved, therefore takes a value between 1 and 6.
Then, the total ranking of the websites was studied. The method that was used for
the total ranking was the multicriteria analysis named PROMETHEE II. That method
applies a linear form of service in the particular case, using the e-marketing services
of the websites identified as criteria. The PROMETHEE II method is part of
outranking relations theory (Brans & Vicke, 1985; Brans et al., 1986; Siskos &
Zopounidis, 1987; Brans et al., 1987; Brans et al., 1998; Zopounidis, 2001). A
similar multicriteria method was used for the total ranking of websites for
agricultural products (Andreopoulou et al., 2008). The PROMETHEE II method for
multi criteria analysis uses six types of general criteria with the corresponding
criteria services, in order to determine the superiority (outranking) between two
alternative solutions.
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In this specific case, the aim was to determine the superiority of one website over
another website. The general level test criterion was selected for this project,
corresponding to a criterion service, which has an interval region for the
determination of superiority (Brans & Vicke, 1985; Roy, 1991). The websites that
were retrieved in the Internet concerning enterprises in food and drinks sector were
examined in pairs as alternative solutions (ki, kj) with i= 1, 2, 66 and j=1, 2………66
as to their supremacy, i.e. which of the two websites excelled based on the criteria
used.
The service H (d), which was used to express superiority, was the following:
P (vi , vj), outranking of website vi , if d t 0
H (d) = { (1)
P (vj , vi), outranking of website vj , if d < 0
Where P(vi, vj), P(vj, vi) are the services of preference, and d is the difference
between the values of each pair of websites (vi, vj), for the criterion under evaluation.
When we examined which of the two websites (vi, vj) is superior, the superiority
service H(d) was applied according to the value d (positive or negative) for each
criterion.
In this study, variables X1,…..,X6 were used, which are the criteria described in
Table 1. The variables are unambiguous and are marked with either 0 or 1. For this
reason, the service used is of linear form ȡ=1.
The multicriteria indicator of preference Ȇ(vi, vj) which is a weighted mean of the
preference services P(vi, vj) with weights wi, express the superiority of website vi
against website vj after all the criteria have been tested.
The values of Ȇ(vi, vj) are calculated using the following equation (Brans et al.,
1986):
k
¦W 5 v ,v
t 1
t t i j
3 vi , v j k
(2)
¦W
t 1
t
We receive 50 scenarios of weights (one scenario of weights wi corresponds to all
criteria) and for each scenario of weights we receive 10 scenarios on the standard
deviation for every criterion. In total, we have 500 different net flow values for each
website of food and drinks sector enterprise. We use the average of these 500 values
as the final net flow value for each website of enterprise.
K is defined as the number of criteria and Pt(vi, vj) the preference services for the
k criteria. The multicriteria preference indicator Ȇ(vi, vj) takes values between 0 and
1. When two websites (vi, vj) are compared, one is assigned two flow values:
outgoing flow and incoming flow. The outgoing flow is calculated by the following
equation (Baourakis et al., 2001):
) vi ¦ 3 v ,v
v j A
i j (3)
In both cases, A is defined as the number of alternative solutions for websites vj.
The outgoing flow expresses the total superiority of website vi against all other
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websites vj for all criteria. The incoming flow is determined by the following
equation (Baourakis et al., 2001):
) vi ¦ 3 v ,v
v j A
i j (4)
The incoming flow expresses the total superiority of all other websites vi against
website vj for all criteria. The net flow for each website vi is estimated by the
following formula:
) vi ) vi ) vi (5)
The net flow is the final number that is used for the comparison between the websites
in order to obtain the ranking. The ten values (scenarios) range between 0.25s and
2.5s with step 0.25s, where s is the standard deviation of all differences d for each
criterion. In total, we take 500 net flow values for each website and find the website’s
average value. Each website with a higher net flow is considered superior in the final
ranking. Finally, they were classified in groups according to their net flow.
3. Results
Research through search engines on the Internet resulted in the retrieve of 66
websites concerning enterprises in the Greek agro-food and drink sector that have an
internet presence through an e-shop.
In Figure 1, the achievement of each one of the 6 e-marketing
criteria/characteristics, expressed in variables x1 to x6 is displayed.
Figure 1. Achievement of e-marketing criteria about the SME websites
Regarding both physical and e-presence of an enterprise (x1), 95.5% of them fulfill
that feature.
Quality certificates for the products are promoted through the e-shop website in
89.4% of enterprises and so as the reliability of the recipes. These features often go
hand in hand and are represented with variable x2.
In most of the enterprises (93.9%) are promoted the products, providing various
information to the consumers. E-promotion of the products is shown through variable
x3.
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Concerning now the feature about the presence or the absence of other links inside
the website of each enterprise, represented with variable x4, 95.5% of enterprises in
the sample offer the possibility of access in other websites.
Moreover, almost 85% of the enterprises in the sample, within the framework of
qualitative policy applied, support the communication with the customer through
suitable forms of communication (x5) aiming to provide additional information on the
products, services and transactions, to receive complaints, to give advice and to also
support after sales service. There is also the function of Frequently Asked Questions
(FAQ) for provision of further information.
Finally, variable x6 represents the presence of shopping cart. A shopping cart is a
software application that typically runs on the computer where the website of the
enterprise is located and allows the customers to do things such as searching for a
product in the store catalog, adding selected product to a basket and placing an order
for it.
Regarding variable t, that is the sum of e-marketing criteria accomplished by e-
shop websites, they are shown in Figure 2. Only 7 enterprises of the sample
accomplishes all six e-marketing criteria (t=6). 48 businesses accomplish five e-
marketing criteria (t=5) and 7 businesses of the sample four (t=4). Moreover, 1
business accomplishes three e-marketing criteria (t=3) and none of them two (t=2) or
one (t=1). Finally, 3 enterprises accomplish no one criterion (t=0).
Figure 2. Sum of the e-marketing criteria accomplished by enterprises
4.1. Ranking and classifying e-shops websites using the multicriteria method
PROMETHEE II
Based on the application of the multicriteria analysis method PROMETHEE II,
the total ranking of the e-shop websites is presented in Table 2. In the same Table it
is also presented the total net flow that is estimated for each website and it is used for
the comparison between the websites in order to obtain the total ranking, as each
website with a higher net flow is considered superior in ranking. Also, I the same
table, the sum of the achieved criteria for each website and the classification in
groups appear.
According to these findings, the values that were estimated for the total net flows
ĭ present a great spectrum of values between (+9.936) to (-47.846) and that indicates
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a great difference concerning the ‘superiority’ between the first and last case in the
ranking of the enterprises’ websites. Moreover, the total flows ĭ of the enterprises’
websites, as derived from the application of the PROMETHEE II method, allow a
further grouping of the cases and generate four groups:
Group 1: classified in this group are 8 websites of the enterprises that achieve 5-6
criteria and very high total flows (+9.936) to (6.943) that present a ‘high
superiority” against the rest of the cases.
Group 2: classified in this group are 47 websites of the enterprises that achieve 5
criteria and medium total flows (+3.218) to (0.466) that present a ‘low superiority’
against the rest of the cases.
Group 3: classified in this group are 6 websites of the enterprises that achieve 4
criteria and average negative total flows (-0.426) to (-3.156) that present an
‘average lag’ against the rest of the cases.
Group 4: classified in this group are 5 websites of the enterprises that achieve 0-4
criteria and average negative total flows (-8.478) to (-47.846) that present a ‘high
lag’ against the rest of the cases.
Table 2. The total ranking of the websites, the total net flows of each website and the
classification in groups.
Final Ranking URL of SME Net flow ĭ Groups
1 www.e-anemos.gr 9,936 group-1
2 www.foccacia.gr 7,91 group-1
3 www.aristeos.gr 7,91 group-1
4 www.agapitos.gr 7,91 group-1
5 www.absinthe.gr 7,037 group-1
6 www.agelidiscava.gr 7,037 group-1
7 www.cavaarion.gr 7,037 group-1
8 www.stivos.net 6,943 group-1
9 www.skouna.gr 3,218 group-2
10 www.tragakis.com 3,218 group-2
11 www.papmar.gr 3,077 group-2
12 www.helmos.com 3,003 group-2
13 www.golden- 3,003 group-2
sandwich.gr
14 www.trofodosia.gr 3,003 group-2
15 www.mastfoods.com 3,003 group-2
16 www.provinco.gr 3,003 group-2
17 www.troficom.gr 3,003 group-2
18 www.pitenis.gr 3,003 group-2
19 www.aretousa.gr 3,003 group-2
20 www.AristonFoods.gr 3,003 group-2
21 www.thymiopoulos.gr 3,003 group-2
22 www.lena.com.gr 3,003 group-2
23 www.tropis.gr 3,003 group-2
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24 www.biofresco.gr 3,003 group-2
25 www.bioshop.gr 3,003 group-2
26 www.arvanitis.gr 3,003 group-2
27 www.fikas.gr 3,003 group-2
28 www.metsovosa.gr 3,003 group-2
29 www.agrovim.gr 3,003 group-2
30 www.filippos-sa.gr 3,003 group-2
31 www.fresca.gr 3,003 group-2
32 www.chrisanidis.gr 3,003 group-2
33 www.elinos.gr 3,003 group-2
34 www.greek-ouzo.com 2,53 group-2
35 www.coffee-nettos.gr 2,53 group-2
36 www.ellvino.gr 2,101 group-2
37 www.pilavas.gr 2,101 group-2
38 www.karoniswineshop.gr 2,101 group-2
39 www.fileloinon.gr 2,101 group-2
40 www.kavapergola.gr 1,928 group-2
41 www.cava-semeli.gr 1,928 group-2
42 www.onassis-foods.gr 1,879 group-2
43 www.sisitis.gr 1,879 group-2
44 www.kordonismarket.gr 1,879 group-2
45 www.nektar.gr 1,879 group-2
46 www.amphion.gr 1,879 group-2
47 www.minosfoods.gr 1,173 group-2
48 www.melissa.gr 1,173 group-2
49 www.biotrofos.gr 1,173 group-2
50 www.elgeka.gr 1,173 group-2
51 www.sunspices.gr 1,173 group-2
52 www.ionikigr.com 1,173 group-2
53 www.konva.gr 1,173 group-2
54 www.trofotechniki.gr 1,173 group-2
55 www.mi-alpha.gr 0,466 group-2
56 www.pikounis.gr -0,426 group-3
57 www.seafood.triton.gr -0,426 group-3
58 www.antonio.gr -2,512 group-3
59 www.aromathellas.gr -2,512 group-3
60 www.cava-sfetsiou.gr -3,156 group-3
61 www.boikos.gr -3,156 group-3
62 www.cibshellas.com -8,478 group-4
63 www.cookieman.gr -18,708 group-4
64 topalis@kar.forthnet.gr -40,495 group-4
65 mamas@mamas.gr -46,143 group-4
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66 alcosa@otenet.gr -47,846 group-4
4. Conclusions
Internet has become a most effective means for promoting and enhancing
purchasing via the promotion of products and the provision of any possible
information existing, before selling. Also it contributes in facilitating the customers
when buying and ordering, it helps financial transactions, secures delivering of
products and preserves the prestige of the company while keeping clients satisfied
after sales service (Andreopoulou et.al. 2009).
Internet research has retrieved 66 websites that represent SME Greek enterprises
in agro-food and drink sector. With the aim of studying the adoption of e-marketing
and internet functions, the websites were qualitative studied and 6 different criteria
that promote e-commerce activities. The enterprises have adopted various internet
tools and techniques to achieve e-marketing.
The findings show that the majority of the websites achieve 5 criteria while 83%
of the websites achieve 5-6 e-marketing criteria and internet functions. Quality
certificates for the products are promoted through the websites in 89.4% of
enterprises. E-promotion of the products is found in 93% of the websites.
In the second Group, that presents low superiority, were classified 47 websites
(71.21%). In Groups 3 and 4, 17% of the cases are classified, meaning that few
websites present a lag, achieve few criteria and occupy negative total net flows. The
enterprises, which belong to this group, should be optimized considering Group 1 a
model. Although only 12% of the websites are classified in Group 1 and achieve 5-6
criteria, they consequently appear to have a high superiority against the rest of the
cases, representing a high level of e-commerce adoption.
According to these findings, the values that were estimated for the total net flows
ĭ present a great spectrum of values and that points out a great difference that
concerns the ‘superiority’ between the first and last case in the ranking of the
enterprises’ websites. Besides, the total net flows ĭ of the enterprises’ websites, as
derived from the application of the PROMETHEE II method, allow a further
grouping of the cases and the initial creation of four groups, plus a single case that
would be considered as the fifth group.
The results of this study can be an effective tool while designing similar websites
for an enterprise that aims to initially or further involve itself in the e-commerce
activities in the agro-food and drink sector. Therefore, it is pointed out that these
enterprises in Greece have to adjust to the new ‘information era’ and aim to become
more effective and efficient while accomplishing e-commerce activities. As the
majority of the enterprises in this sector are generally still in the initial adoption
phase (usually a promotional level), they should further mature in the next phases of
e-commerce adoption, as those stages of adoption characterized for their dynamic
interaction with potential clients and finally, the total integration of e-commerce
activities and the optimization of the supply chain.
The findings are useful in improving e-commerce adoption through the improved
design and implementation of a website to fulfill certain features and characteristics.
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