Author(s): Endalkachew Desta & Chalchissa Amantie
This study investigates the role the marketing strategies on the market performance of medium and small enterprises in Ethiopia Jimma Town. To achieve the objectives of this study descriptive research design and qualitative interpretive approach were also employed. To answer the research questions, semi-structured interviews were administered to target respondents of small and medium enterprise owner-managers. A sample of 15 enterprise owner- managers was selected by using the purposive sampling method. The data collected by in-depth interviews were analyzed by using qualitative data analysis steps in which collecting the data through appropriate data collection methods to collect all the data without missing, recording, and note taking are the important activity to be done. Categorizing the recorded interviews and refining them for analysis, applying inductive data analysis, and writing the report are steps used to analyze data. Based on fifteen interviews without owners/managers in different firms, it was found that a well-defined marketing strategy leads to an increase in the business market performance. The findings of this study indicated that marketing strategy dimensions such as (product, price, promotion, place, people, process, physical evidence, segmentation, targeting, and positioning) strategies are determinant factors that play great in forcing the achievement of market performance. The study recommends that to get high revenue and profitability small and medium enterprise owners’ managers should continually adopt and implement marketing strategies.