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Figure 2.1 Global digital growth (We Are Social, 2022)

According to the research, the current number of the global active social media users is 4.62 billion (We Are Social, 2022), which is more than half of the world population. The total active social media user has shown an increasing of approximately 10% on the year-to-year comparison and an increasing trend is expect to grow in the future. The statement amplifies an importance of social media marketing. Shah and Halligan (2014) suggested that communication strategy as a part of outbound marketing is crucial for the success in social media. In addition, Chaffey and Smith (2017) stated that social media is a part of digital media where the audience are encouraged to be involved in the process of participation, interaction and sharing. Therefore, to summarize, marketers and brands can use social media as a platform to achieved their digital marketing goals through effective communication strategy. The key benefit of social media is to support advocacy amongst the company customer by achieving “social media amplification”, when customer share positive comment about the product or the brand itself (Chaffey and Smith, 2017). Currently, the most used social media platform is Facebook, with a significant number of global active user of 2.9 billion people (We Are Social, 2022). Thus, create an opportunity for digital marketers to reach and target various audience with specific criteria.

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EVALUATION OF A SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM

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Figure 2.2 The most used social media platform (We Are Social, 2022)

The RACE planning is a widely used framework in digital marketing. It allows digital marketing strategy to be managed in a structured way across customer lifecycle (Chaffey, 2022). The framework consists of four key components; Reach, Act, Covert and Engage. The framework will be use to evaluate Facebook and how the flatform can facilitate business growth.

Figure 2.3 The RACE planning framework (Chaffey, 2022)

Reach

Facebook have introduced Facebook Ads Manager, a marketing tools that is design to assist business pages. It allows marketers to create, design, publish an advertising campaign on Facebook. One of the most important functions is that it enables the campaign to target specific audience according to the assigned criteria (Meta, 2022). Thus, in term of reach, Facebook platform ensure that the advertising will generate high reach.

META

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Act

The customer or target audience are prompt to interact with the product post through the process of commenting, liking and sharing. These elements can be measured by the analytic views provided by Facebook to business pages, allowing marketers to monitor the performance of the published advertising or product-related campaign (Meta, 2022)

Convert

Facebook Shops make it easier for customer to browse, select and purchase the desire product on the platform. The feature enables every business, regarding to their size and budget, to set up an online shop and connect with their customer at anyplace and anytime that is convenient for them (Meta, 2020).

Engage

On engage phase, customers are encouraged to follow or subscribe to the business page to receive more information on the upcoming product or advertising. The main purpose is to promote repeating business. Furthermore, in the post-purchase phase, often the business page asks for the additional customer engagement through product review. The process helps to obtain earned media which are proved to have positive influence on other customer purchase decision (Chaffey and Smith, 2017)

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