WhatsApp Business Application as a Digital Marketing Strategy of UMKM
- DOI
- 10.2991/aebmr.k.220107.022How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Whatsapp Business; Digital Marketing; UMKM
- Abstract
Small and Medium Enterprises (UMKM) are the real sector that accounts for 99.9% of all businesses operating in Indonesia and absorbs 97% of the total workforce. The growth of UMKM certainly requires a marketing strategy in the face of business competition. The application Whatsapp Business is functional design platform to help business people manage customer service. There are 5 (five) main features of Whatsapp Business that can help optimeze UMKM development; (1) a catalog for a gallery of products offered, (2) a cart for costumers when they like a product that can be included as a list of items of interest, (3) an automatic massage prepared to provide a quick response as a greeting to new cutomers, (4) quick reply to save message formats for frequently asked questions and (5) labels to mark messages for easy locating. In Indonesia, there are around 6 million users who have accessed Whatsapp Business every month since 2018. This is an opportunity for UMKM to develop their business.
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- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
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TY - CONF AU - Asmayanti AU - Agus Syam AU - Muhammad Alfa Sikar AU - Beche Bt Mamma AU - Sudarmi AU - Nurafni Oktaviyah PY - 2022 DA - 2022/01/24 TI - WhatsApp Business Application as a Digital Marketing Strategy of UMKM BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Social, Economics, Business, and Education (ICSEBE 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 112 EP - 116 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.220107.022 DO - 10.2991/aebmr.k.220107.022 ID - 2022 ER -