Marketing Communication Model in Social Network Facebook

Abstract

The limited funds made small and medium enterprise attempt to do marketing communication activities by finding ways of marketing communication that does not require substantial funds.The emergence of social networking media, such as Facebook is an opportunity for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as a cheap marketing communication media, but not many SMEs are successfully doing marketing communications with social networking media, such failure due to a lack of knowledge in utilizing the social networking media. Indonesia have many small and medium enterprises, and most of them found difficulties in marketing communication, this study was held with purpose to examine the marketing communication activity in social networking media facebook. The study used a qualitative approach, that used interview ,observation and documentation, to assess the activity of SMEs marketing communications in facebook page, the setting of the research was the SMEs who success performed marketing communication in social networking media facebook. The results of this study resulted in a model of marketing communication through social networking media facebook page, which is useful as a guide for SMEs who will do the marketing communications.