Abstract (eng)
The companies have to deal with competitive conditions, which are constantly changing and getting more difficult. This requires communication. Communication gets more im-portant because of the increasing offerings of products and services, progressive identical services and high levels of saturation on the consumer side (Bruhn, 2007 zit. nach Bruhn et al., 2009: 5).
The Internet offers new chances for small companies. They profit of informative and lat-est content which perceptible the entrepreneur and its team (Amann, 2007: 9). This new chances around advertisement and marketing facilitate the bio companies to enter the competition. Bio companies, which are selling their own produced goods, are mostly small. For this reason, it is necessary, that marketing, advertisement and the public rela-tions are applied from the point of view of small businesses and to adapt generally appli-cable rules to organic companies. Further, it is also necessary to compare the needs of customers with those of entrepreneurs in order to ensure optimal external communication.
Therefore, this paper answers the following research question: “To what extent are the needs of customers related to the needs of entrepreneurs of Vorarlberg organic companies in relation to the external communication?”
Due to the complexity of this question, three different researches were carried out in this master's thesis in order to be able to answer the question with awareness. In this case, a quantitative website analysis and two surveys were used. These surveys provide information on the needs of customers and entrepreneurs.
The evaluation provided new insights for bio companies of Vorarlberg. On the one hand, the needs are useful for website optimization, and on the other hand new external com-munication tools may be considered.