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Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues Open access
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Received: 2024-07-11  |  Accepted: 2024-10-14  |  Published: 2024-12-30

Title

Innovative marketing strategies in entrepreneurship


Abstract

The article analyses the innovative marketing strategies in entrepreneurship, focusing on guerrilla marketing and examining its tools and case studies. Guerrilla marketing is a strategy in which small businesses use creativity to compete with bigger companies. The main focus is on bold, modern ideas, and investing not money but time, energy, imagination, and information is encouraged. The author suggests an original guerrilla marketing model and reveals the peculiarities of guerrilla marketing approaches. The findings can help companies design innovative marketing strategies


Keywords

innovative marketing, guerrilla marketing, entrepreneurship, guerrilla marketing tools


JEL classifications

M20 , M21 , A20 , A22 , C40 , C83 , I21 , L80


URI

http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/1250


DOI


Pages

117-126


Funding


This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Authors

Išoraitė, Margarita
Vilniaus kolegija / Higher Education Institution, Vilnius, Lithuania https://www.viko.lt
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Journal title

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues

Volume

12


Number

2


Issue date

December 2024


Issue DOI


ISSN

ISSN 2345-0282 (online)


Publisher

VšĮ Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

Cited

Google Scholar

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