The document discusses the growing use and importance of social media marketing, particularly Facebook and Twitter, in Japan and globally. It notes that Facebook usage grew 78% in Japan in the past year and may be the "Year of Facebook" in Japan in 2012. Twitter also overtook Japan's largest social network, Mixi, in users in 2011. The document provides examples of how brands can create content and run promotions on Facebook to engage customers and generate sales.
2. Brands Are Increasing Their Investment
In Social Media
By 2012
88% of Marketers
Will Use
Social Media
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3. The Spend by Marketers on Social Media is
Surpassing Email Marketing
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4. Facebook in Japan
? Facebook is enjoying rapid
growth in the Japanese
market;
? with 78% growth in the
past year.
? Facebook has over
13,000,000 users in Japan
? Trends point towards 2012
being the ¨DYear of
Facebook¡¬ in Japan
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5. Twitter in Japan
? Twitter is rapidly catching up with the most well known Japanese
social network service, Mixi.
? Twitter overtook Mixi August 2011.
? 14,962,000 unique Japanese visitors use Twitter
? 14,917,000 unique Japanese visitors use Mixi
? Japanese is currently the second most popular language on Twitter
with 14% of all tweets; second only to English with 50% of all tweets.
? 20% of all Japanese people use Twitter;
? in comparison to 8% of the USA.
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6. ¨DChanging consumer usage patterns make
social media a MUST¡¬
? Facebook is a top global web
destination and the #4 site in the
U.S. (comScore)
? Twitter has become the #1 social
network in Japan (comScore)
? 60% of active Internet users
worldwide have a social network
profile (UM Wave 5)
Sources: eMarketer Social Media Trends presentation, comScore, Universal McCann Wave 5
5 Report (4/11)
7. The Facebook Landscape: March 2012
?33%
(680m in 3/2011) > 37,000 likes or
comments
every second
526M daily active users of every day
(?42%)
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8. Why Brands are Making the Investment
Almost half of active Internet users worldwide have joined
a brand community online
7 Source: Universal McCann Wave 5 Report, April 2011
9. The Reward
8 Source: Universal McCann Wave 5 Report, April 2011
12. Timeline Changed the FB Brand Opportunity
Brands used to be able to designate a Tab as their ¨DWelcome¡¬ page
Timeline now is the only ¨DWelcome¡¬ page
? Less control of new visitor experience
? Less Tabs readily visible to the visitor
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13. What CAN a Brand Do?
Cover
Photo
& Logo
Rich
Content
Tabs
Posts &
Engageme
nt
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15. Facebook Tabs Enables social sharing
Content with Purpose
? Brand-related content or
application
? Focused on a specific
purpose (use case)
? Regional content (multi-language)
? Specific marketing campaign
? Contest or sweepstakes
? Lead generation (newsletter sign-up)
? Polls & surveys
? Community interest
? Products & sales
? Landing pages (other campaigns, website,
newsletter, etc.)
? Applications
? Videos, photos, events, etc. Drives deeper engagement
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16. Creating Content Tabs
Brands have been creating tabs in several ways
Native HTML Self-Created Agencies
? Hard to create ? Using 3rd party tools ? Expensive, but great
? Need technical and design ? Little self-guidance built content and imagery
resources into the system ? Small changes =
? Need to self-host ? Often requires consulting additional billable hours
We simplify the development of Tabs using
the brand¡¯s preferred method
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18. Driving a Brand¡¯s Social Engagement
Find new Engage in Manage your
conversations Post Updates to conversations social
& people using Twitter and w/people using communications
Campaigns Facebook Social Actions in one place
+Engage
Search Share Engage Manage
Buzz
Curate Research Analyze
Use Campaign Use Social Profiles See the Results
Searches to find and Analysis to find of your activities
and share great out who to engage
content further
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19. Use Case: Pedigree
Raise awareness of PEDIGREE¡¯S Adoption Drive?
Solution: An integrated campaign featuring Facebook Ads and
public relations messaging with targeted calls-to-action
? With Facebook, the brand created an online hub for people
who share the PEDIGREE? Brand¡¯s love of dogs
Results
? As a result of the Facebook initiative PEDIGREE? Adoption
Drive Page grew from 55,000 (pre-launch) to more than 1.1
million by mid-2010 ¨C a 20-fold increase
? The Facebook PEDIGREE? Adoption Drive Page has so far
led to the donation of more than 1.1 million bowls of food and
counting to shelters across the U.S.
? Click-through from the PEDIGREE? Adoption Drive Page to
the PEDIGREE Foundation, has so far contributed to $600,000
raised for animal shelters and breed rescue centers!
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20. Use Case: Social Contest
Use a Social Contest to Drive Social Fan Base
Use Engage to announce and build awareness
? Focus on one goal¡ªe.g. build your Facebook ¨Dfans¡¬
? Use all channels to announce the promotion (email,
Twitter, Facebook, website, print, etc.)
? Use a prize as an enticement¡ªe.g. ¨DLike¡¬ our Facebook page and win xyz
? Use Buzz+Engage to announce contest, engage people who are chatting
about the contest, announce the winner, etc.
? Use Buzz+Engage to measure social chatter, social engagement, clicks
? Use MRise to launch and maintain the contest, and choose the winners
Once the people have engaged, keep them interested
? Give them the opportunity to engage further¡ªuse Engage to post links to
forms to sign up for offers, newsletters, etc.
? Use Engage to post relevant content to your social accounts
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23. Use Case: Sales Promotion
Use Engage to Post and Measure Sales Promotions
Announce the promotion using Engage
? Post the promotion using Engage to Twitter and/or Facebook
? Create separate web landing pages per channel with different discount
codes in MRise
? Continue to ¨Dpromote the promotion¡¬ through social channels
Measure results through Engage
? Measure clicks per channel using Engage
? Encourage people to share the promotion and use Engage to measure
which channels had the best share & click rates
? Measure clicks and final redemptions to see which channels produced the
best results and to total the actual sales figures and ROI for the promotion
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But even with the sheer numbers of users, the more compelling reason for brands is the ability to engage consumers. In this analysis, we see the percent of active Internet users who have participated in a BRAND community online (like a Facebook fan page, a forum, etc). For instance, in the United States, approximately 40% have joined a brand community!
The Rewards that all brands and businesses are looking for are:RecognitionLoyaltyEngagementCommerceAdvocacy