1. Introduction
The third millennium is linked to globalization, the rapid development of information, and communication technologies. In addition to these trends, the modern economy is characterized by growth in both consumption and information. The role of national governance is to ensure the social responsibility and sustainable development of all actors in the economic sphere. In the corporate sector, these trends are reflected in the introduction of innovations which make it possible to implement a new way of business.
The rapid development of new technologies also penetrates marketing (
Aretoulis 2018;
Čierna et al. 2017;
Waheed and Yang 2017;
Zaborova et al. 2017;
Hiadlovský et al. 2016;
Malichova et al. 2016;
Hockicko et al. 2015;
Tokarčíková and Kucharčíková 2015;
Jaroslav et al. 2013;
Li and Zhang 2013;
Kuzman et al. 2012;
Chu et al. 2011;
Deng et al. 2009;
Metke 2006). A few years ago, people watched the same media, and so advertising could act simultaneously for several million consumers. Currently, consumers have unlimited opportunities, so the classical media that used to promote advertising messages have lost their position (
Tsai et al. 2017;
Parobek et al. 2016;
Liu et al. 2018;
Marsden and Chaney 2013;
Vysekalová and Mikeš 2007). In this context, the mobile phone is becoming increasingly relied upon to create completely new communications and business channels with high availability. Mobile phones are used in e-business, which can be defined as the use of the internet to network and empower business processes, electronic commerce, organizational communication, and collaboration within a company and with its customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders (
Combe 2006). The advantage is that customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders can be placed anywhere in the world, in other time zones, possibly speaking different languages and paying in different currencies. Currently, in this respect, mobile phones know no boundaries (
Brzozowska and Bubel 2015).
The high penetration of mobile phones shows that they have become a widespread mass media. Thanks to the fact that almost all people now own a mobile phone, communication has become simpler and faster. This enables mobile marketing to reach a much wider and more diverse audience. Promotional campaigns via mobile devices are faster, easier, and cheaper to create and launch. Users can save information to their device, which they can retrieve and use whenever necessary at anytime and anywhere. Customer communication is personal, direct, targeted, and it has an immediate impact on customers (
Musová 2015). Because users have their mobile phones on their person almost at all times, they receive messages right after they are sent. Therefore, user responses can be tracked in real-time. In addition, after getting feedback, marketers can better understand and analyze user behavior and thereby improve their products and services (
Wilhite 2012;
Michael and Salter 2006).
In order to maximize the efficiency of promotional campaigns, companies need to consider different factors affecting consumer behavior, such as cultural (the society, culture, sub-culture, and social class system in which a person grows and lives), social (the family, family life cycle, and social class to which an individual belongs), personal (life cycle stage, occupation, financial and economic conditions, lifestyle, personal situation, self-concept, and personality), psychological (internal and external motivation, perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes), and individual (age, gender, education level, income), as presented in
Figure 1 (
Abdolmaleki et al. 2018;
SivaKumar and Gunasekaran 2017;
Anisimova 2016;
He et al. 2016;
Olšiaková 2003).
The key to a successful marketing strategy is to take these factors into account because it is demanding to address and engage customers correctly, especially if the target customer group comes from completely different social classes, and from other geographic locations with diverse beliefs. It is confirmed by international literature (
i.e., Kim and Baek 2018;
Benda-Prokeinová et al. 2017;
Lin et al. 2017;
Ližbetinová 2017;
Musa et al. 2017;
Xu et al. 2017;
Grencikova et al. 2016;
Knapcova and Kucharcikova 2015;
Venkatesh et al. 2012). The research of
Kim et al. (
2015) demonstrates that socio-demographic characteristics (e.g., gender, age, education, and income) are the main predictors for mobile applications. Studies by
Seneviratne et al. (
2014a,
2014b) investigated the relationship between mobile apps and user attributes such as gender, religion, country, and language. The results showed that user gender can be predicted with an accuracy of 70%, and most of their personality traits with an accuracy of over 90%. Gender differences were also confirmed by the research of
Unal et al. (
2017).
Liu et al. (
2018) highlight gender differences in the average amount of money spent on online shopping.
Kim et al. (
2015) further found that women tend to make greater use of e-commerce applications. According to
Kraft and Weber (
2012), women meet long-term needs while men look to meet immediate, short-term needs. The findings of
Bazhan et al. (
2018) show that women have quite diverse preferences.
2. Methodological Approach
In the context of e-business, the introduction of a new mobile player app store was investigated. Different studies address this issue (
Li et al. 2017;
Bastinos et al. 2014;
Marmol et al. 2014;
Roman et al. 2014;
Ok et al. 2013;
Pagano and Maalej 2013). Our research is a joint venture project between a Slovak company and an Asian mobile game reseller. A blockchain was created between 2016 and 2017 to sell any digital content (video, audio, e-books, etc.). Compared to traditional sales, the advantage of this solution lies in the fact that intermediaries (i.e., third parties) are excluded from the buying and selling process, which leads to a reduction of commission costs that have disproportionately increased the final cost of digital content sold to end users.
The research was conducted through the purchase of a research panel in 2017. When designing a campaign for the Philippines, Thailand, and India, ethnic, religious, cultural, and linguistic differences were taken into account, as these are markets where consumers—in comparison to European ones—have a completely different mentality, religion, and perception of reality, as well as different habits. The aim of this research was to determine if it is possible—in terms of the sustainability of the consumption of a marketing product—to launch a single campaign aimed at all markets using the same content but different languages, or whether it is necessary to use a completely different campaign and means of communication for each market.
Altogether, 317 respondents from the Philippines, Thailand, and India were addressed. In total, 287 questionnaires were used for statistical evaluation. The return rate was 90.54%.
Table 1 shows the sample size.
The model presented in
Figure 1 shows that there is a wide spectrum of different factors affecting consumer behavior. The research was focused on the individual factors—mainly socio-demographic characteristics.
At the level of significance α = 5%, in the context of inductive statistics through the Chi-square goodness of fit test, the dependency between the two categorical variables was verified. Two scientific hypotheses were tested:
Hypothesis 1 (H1).
Is there a dependency between the socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents (country, gender, and age) and site engagement of visitors?
Hypothesis 2 (H2).
Is there a dependency between the socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents (country, gender, and age) and the user experience?
If the calculated
p-value was less than the chosen significance level (α = 5%), we rejected the zero hypothesis H0 of the Chi-square test (
Pacáková 2009;
Rimarčík 2007) and support H1 (i.e., the statistically significant dependence between socio-demographic characteristics and the site engagement, as well as user experience). The categorical data, at which statistically significant dependency was confirmed, are presented in the table of residual abilities (observed/theoretical). Looking at the table, it can be seen where dependency was most visible.
This project, aiming to introduce a new mobile app store built on blockchain technology, can serve as a test for modern communication media, such as: advertising space directly in the app store; web/banner campaigns; video campaigns; campaigns through affiliate programs; social networking campaigns; sales promotion campaigns using influencers such as bloggers, YouTubers, and chatters in new discussion forums; push notification campaigns; and SMS campaigns. The aim of the article is to explore whether a single e-business marketing campaign can be launched in the selected Southeast Asian countries.
3. Results
In the first step, the H1 hypothesis (Is there a dependency between the socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents (country, gender, and age) and visitor site engagement?) was tested.
Based on the contingency coefficient presented in
Table 2, it can be concluded that there was a slight dependency between the country and site engagements. Following the results in
Table 2, the Chi-square test presented no statistically significant dependency on the country’s relevance and site engagement.
In all countries analyzed, the site engagement was above 80% (
Table 3).
Table 4 presents the dependence between the country and site engagement. The contingency coefficient (
Table 5) presented a slight dependence between the gender and site engagements. Based on the Chi-square test results (
Table 5), there was no statistically significant dependence between gender and the site engagement.
From the point of view of gender, there was high site engagement, at the level of 80% (
Table 6).
Table 7 presents the dependence between gender and site engagement.
Table 8 presents the contingency coefficient. It can be concluded that there was a slight dependence between age and site engagement. Based on the Chi-square results (
Table 8), there was no statistically significant dependence between age and site engagement. Against the age group of respondents, there was a high interest in the site engagement of over 79% (
Table 9).
Table 10 presents the dependence between age and site engagement. As age increased, the level of interest grew.
In the following step, the H2 hypothesis was tested. The dependence between the socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents (country, gender, and age) and the user experience was tested.
Based on the contingency coefficient presented in
Table 11, it can be concluded that there was a stronger dependence between the country and user experience. Based on the Chi-square results presented in
Table 11, there was a statistically significant dependence between the country and the user experience.
Table 12 presents the user experience in the countries analyzed. Dependence between the country and the user experience is presented in
Table 13.
A slight dependence between age and the user experience based on the results of the contingency coefficient is presented in
Table 8. Based on the results presented in
Table 14 and the Chi-square results, it can be stated that there was no statistically significant dependency between age and the user experience.
The user experience according to the age group analyzed is presented in
Table 15. It can be stated that for most respondents, the user experience was characterized as calm/peaceful.
Table 16 presents the dependence between age and the user experience.
The results of the contingency coefficient presented in
Table 17 indicate a slight dependence between gender and the user experience. No statistically significant dependence between gender and the user experience was confirmed by the Chi-square results (
Table 17).
Table 18 presents the user experience according to gender. For most respondents, the user experience was characterized as calm/peaceful. Gender dependency and the user experience is presented in
Table 19.
4. Discussion and Conclusions
In our research, we explored the introduction of a new mobile player app store. The research was conducted in 2017 by purchasing a research panel. With a sample of 287 respondents, we analyzed whether a single marketing campaign could be conducted for selected countries in Southeast Asia. Based on the results of Chi-square tests, we could define statistically significant dependencies between the socio-demographic characteristics of respondents (country, gender, and age) and the selected analyzed factors.
In the H1 research hypothesis as to whether there is a dependency between the socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents (country, gender, and age) and the site engagement, it can be concluded that—based on the results of the Chi-square test—there was no statistically significant dependency between the country and the site engagement, there was no statistically significant dependency between age and the site engagement, and there was no statistically significant dependency between gender and the site engagement. This analysis did not confirm H1.
In the H1 hypothesis, as to whether there is a dependency between the socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents (country, gender, and age) and the user experience, it can be concluded that—based on the results of the Chi-square tests—there was a statistically significant dependency between the country and the user experience, there was no statistically significant dependency between age and the user experience, and there was no statistically significant relationship between gender and the user experience. In our analysis, we confirmed H2 in only one of three demographic characteristics, and in two the input assumption was not confirmed. Thus, H2 was rejected.
Looking at the analyses and practical benefits of the research, it is clear that in the field of e-business in the analyzed countries it is possible to carry out marketing campaigns uniformly, because there was no statistically significant dependency between the analyzed characteristics and the selected results of the marketing survey. In the field of e-business, mobile marketing has great potential. If a company uses the right combination of marketing communication tools, the final effect of advertising can be multiplied, leading to an increased demand for products and the sustainability of the product consumption (
Wilhite 2012;
Michael and Salter 2006).
Future research can be provided in comparing European and Asian markets, as well as other markets around the world. Due to the globalization of the world market, it is possible to analyze the similarities between marketing campaigns in different parts of the world. Research is a rather limited by necessary method by which to obtain additional data from markets in various other countries.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, P.S., M.V., J.M., S.L., M.H. and D.W.; Methodology, J.M., M.H., S.L.; Software, J.M. and M.H.; Validation, P.S. and M.H.; Formal Analysis, J.M., M.H. and S.L.; Investigation, J.M. and M.H.; Resources, P.S., M.V., J.M., S.L., M.H. and D.W.; Data Curation, J.M. and M.H.; Writing-Original Draft Preparation, P.S., M.V., J.M., S.L., M.H. and D.W.; Writing-Review & Editing, P.S., M.V., J.M., S.L., M.H. and D.W.; Visualization, M.H. and S.L.; Supervision, P.S., M.V., M.H.; Project Administration, M.H. and S.L.; Funding Acquisition, M.H. and S.L.
Funding
This research was funded by VEGA grant number 1/0024/17, VEGA grant number 1/0116/18 and APVV grant number 16-0297.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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