A recent study found that Facebook fan pages can increase store visits, dollars spent and customer loyalty.

Facebook now has over 400 million accounts with 50 million of those created since last fall. We know people are on Facebook. And marketers are experimenting with ways to utilize it to their advantage. But is Facebook effective for marketing your business?

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Maketing 4 Health has compiled many of the healthcare-related ads that appeared on Facebook from January 25 to February 2, 2010.

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YouTube video, part of the Pharmageddon 2012 self-promotional campaign for communications agencies Friday Morning and S+R communications.

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Agency: Friday Morning and S+R Medical Communications

Brand name: Pharmageddon 2012
Category: Advertising Agency self-promotion
Country/Market: USA, North America
Use: Corporate communications, service
Target: Trade, services
Tagline: Pharmageddon 2012 – Tick. Tock.
Medium: Social marketing
Size/duration: Social Media
Publication/Aired: 2009

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Microsite

Have you heard of Pharmageddon 2012? If you follow the pharmaceutical industry on social media at all, it’s almost impossible not to. It’s on YouTube, Facebook, Flickr. It has it’s own blog on the Wordpress site, it’s listed on Technocrati, there’s an RSS feed and they’re also on Twitter.

Can we talk about an over-saturation of social media here? Maybe… but it’s certainly an interesting way of promoting the use of those new communications channels readily available to everyone.

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Presented in a very nice and captivating way.

SimpleWins Microsite featuring Nick Jonas.

Bayer Contour blood sugar meters’ partnered with Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers in a Social Media effort. Nick Jonas suffers from type 1 diabetes and he lends his popularity to show to other diabetic people that his Contour Blood Glucose Meter helps him live his rockstar life as fully as he would not having diabetes.

Part of the mix to this date, are a Microsite (seen above), 2 print ads, a TV commercial.

Charlie Kimball is a successful race-car driver who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 2007. He was forced to stop racing mid-season following this. This elaborate social media marketing effort aims to show diabetes suffers that even with diabetes, they can accomplish great things. Charlie resumed racing in 2008 and continues to claim podiums. Novo Nordisk teamed-up with Charlie in this effort to promote Levemir and Novolog brands of insulin.

This effort includes a Facebook fan page, a YouTube Channel, a Twitter account, a blog and a specific page on Novo Nordisk Care’s Website.

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