Data on the Facebook marketing strategies used by fast-food chains in four Latin American countries during the COVID-19 lockdowns

Objectives During the COVID-19 pandemic, most countries implemented lockdowns that motivated changes in the dietary patterns, physical activity, and body mass index (BMI) of consumers worldwide, as well as the emergence of new food marketing strategies in social media. We sought to design and validate a methodology for monitoring and evaluating the Facebook marketing strategies of multinational fast-food chains in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Data description We developed three datasets. First, a dataset with the Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) of 1015 Facebook posts of five fast-food chains present in Argentina, Bolivia, Guatemala, and Peru. Second, a dataset of 106 content-analyzed posts we used in a pilot to determine intercoder reliability using statistical tests. Third, a dataset of a final sample of the 1015 content-analyzed posts that we used to determine the variables most frequently used. Following a mixed-methods approach, we developed 29 variables that recorded general information, as well as the marketing strategies we identified in the posts, including 14 COVID-19 specific variables. These data should help to monitor the social media marketing strategies that fast-food chains have introduced during the COVID-19 lockdowns, thus providing initial evidence about how they could be contributing to an unhealthy food environment.

PEMANFAATAN FACEBOOK MARKETING UNTUK MENINGKATKAN OMSET PENJUALAN UMKM TEMBILAHAN

At present marketing and sales of UMKM products in Tembilahan are still done by manually or through broadcast messages and waiting for visitors to come to the store. This method is not optimal in delivering information because the promotion does not reach people who are far from the location of the store. Today's social media is a very popular tool and is in demand by UMKM players, one of which is Facebook in which there is a marketplace feature that can reach promotions and sales that do not know space and time. This study aims to find out and analyze the Facebook marketing communication strategy used by Gadisty Screen Printing Tembilahan includes planning and the results of its implementation in increasing sales in each branch. The method used is observation, in-depth interviews and documentation. Research was carried out in Tembilahan, data was analyzed using Miles & Huberman models. The results showed Facebook accommodated the components that existed in marketing communication strategies such as providing consumer data to validate segmentation, targeting, and positioning as well as research material in determining the production of Facebook marketing content. Marketing strategies are executed on Facebook FanPage, Personal and Group accounts. The three main components of Facebook marketing running marketing mixes such as advertising, sales promotions, private sales, direct marketing, public relations and publicity. Popular marketing content on Facebook is the characteristics of Cover / Soft Selling and Video.

The Impact of Social Media Marketing on Urban Youth’s Brand Loyalty: Through Facebook Marketing

Social media being established as an effective medium of communication, marketers now highly focus on social media marketing create brand awareness and institute brand loyalty. Considering social media is the most popular among the urban youth of the country and Facebook being most popular social media site, this study is thus designed in order to identify the impact of Facebook marketing on urban youth’s brand loyalty. Information was derived by conducting a validated questionnaire with a sample of 306 people which was further evaluated through regression analysis. It was found night time, 08:01 PM – 5:59 AM, is the most popular time period for the urban youth to use Facebook. Funny, informative, international/ national news contents are top preferred content on Facebook. A positive relationship between urban youth’s brand loyalty and components such as advantageous campaign, facebook group, popular contents and brand’s relevant contents of Facebook marketing. Whereas, updated content and electronic word of mouth (E-WOM) rather had a negative influence on the brand loyalty of the urban youth.

Calculation of Facebook Marketing Effectiveness in Terms of ROI

This chapter demonstrates how to assess the performance of organic and sponsored activities on Facebook using the data available in Facebook Ads Manager, Facebook Page Insights, and Google Analytics. The main aim of the proposed ROI calculation model is to connect common social media marketing objectives with the analytical information available. The main emphasis is put on the technical aspect of ad performance assessment. The authors explain how the Facebook attribution system and post-impression algorithm work, describe the relation between advertising goals and metrics displayed as achieved campaign results, and demonstrate how to derive ROI indexes from different Facebook conversions. The chapter also includes a practical example how to calculate current and future value of ongoing ads.

Reinforcement Learning in Social Media Marketing

In this chapter, the authors describe an architecture for reinforcement learning in social media marketing. The rule bases used for action selection within the architecture build upon many-valued (fuzzy) logic. Action evaluation and internal learning is based on neural network like structures. In using variables measuring the effect of advertising, we must understand direction of influence between advertiser, owning the content of the advertisement, and advertisee, as the target of an advertisement, and as facilitated by social media marketing. Examples are drawn from Facebook marketing.

Facebook as Marketing Tools for Organizations

Facebook has become widely known around the globe. This chapter applies marketing techniques to Facebook. The concern of using Facebook for both users and marketers is also elaborated in this study. Scenarios will help marketers to comprehend how knowledge management tools like plan-do-check-act (PDCA) and root cause analysis (RCA) are used in Facebook marketing. Other than the concern risk, the chapter presents the importance of using Facebook as well as the implication of these technique for future research.