
Received March 24, 2023/ Approved July, 2, 2023 Pages: 90-111
eISSN: 2600-5743
Centro Sur Vol. 8 No. 1 - January - March
According to statistics provided by the Statista portal, during the year
2021, about eleven million dollars were invested for digital marketing.
It is anticipated that by 2024, this figure will exceed fifteen
million.(Ayón et al., 2021)..
According to the author, Mantari (2022) executed a study about brand
positioning and digital marketing in a pharmacy, which concluded
that there is a close relationship between both variables. This means
that online marketing is crucial to obtain a good position, potentiating
the positioning in the market.
Chango (2021) executed an analysis on brand positioning and digital
marketing in an organization, which determined that digital
marketing lacks many things, which is too worrying because it does
not have a well-established approach and there is no interest in
knowing the problems of the population, thus causing the results to
have negative levels. The marketing strategies only have an organic
origin without using the various forms of payment that has a high
reach in a short time, in addition to a correct structuring, development
and distribution of data and special content for each buyer.
Miranda (2020) in his study on digital marketing techniques and the
relationship that exists with the brand positioning of a medical office,
thus specifying that there is no relationship given that the value of the
hypothesis significance level achieved a value of 0.39, which is higher
than what is demanded. In addition, the degree of the digital
marketing instruments variable is regular-low, due to the fact that the
average value of the surveys carried out, 83% of the answers are at a
regular level; being the dimension with the highest score in customer
loyalty.
Coello (2019) developed a study on digital marketing tools to improve
the brand positioning of a clinic, observed that there is between the
latter, the use of digital marketing strategies with the positioning of
the clinic, concluding that the strategies of the factor being discussed
have a good and really important impact on positioning.
In Ecuador, it is clearly perceptible that the execution of digital
marketing is not carried out in an adequate manner, mainly due to the
lack of understanding of the potential of this tool. In certain cases, its
application is carried out in an ethically questionable manner,
generating as a consequence the provision of advertising services that
do not properly match the offer. This triggers poor professional
development and, ultimately, has an unfavorable impact on the quality
of advertising (Arevalo, 2022). Therefore, the central drawback in this
sector lies in the inappropriate use of digital marketing, which
prevents constant progress due to ignorance of the functions of some
elementary resources. Thus, all this is reflected in a poor performance