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CJOE: Vol. 3 No. 2, Dec. 2019

Effects Of Instagram Marketing on Female Entrepreneurial Performance in Lagos Nigeria: An Exploratory Study

  • Christian Mamodu, Chinonye Moses, Jane Ekeagbara & Dibia Peter
Submitted
December 17, 2019
Published
2019-12-17

Abstract

Lagos is called the commercial capital and known as a city highly populated in Nigeria, with not less than 21 million people as at 2016. This makes it the largest city in Africa. The city is full of diverse opportunities for business and service delivery, majority of its population are social media savvy. Lagos hosts millions of female entrepreneurs who contribute to its GDP via product and service delivery. The study seeks to understand the experience of female entrepreneurs in Lagos who chose Instagram to market their small businesses. Ten female entrepreneurs were selected to participate in the study. The exploratory research design was adopted for the study. The study found that Instagram marketing is effectively used by female entrepreneurs, especially those of them who do not have a shop or an office. Some female entrepreneurs identified in this study, opined that Instagram is user friendly, however data consuming. Instagram marketing provides high exposure of products or services which gives room for sharing product pictures and creating an engaging content.