Online advertising isn’t new. Neither is social media. From the days of BBS, online discussion forums, instant messaging and more recently blogs – social interactions between people online, now referred to as social media – is constantly evolving.
While Internet users used to congregate within portal sites and services the like of ICQ, today there’s a shifting usage trend towards services such as Facebook and Twitter. When the number of Malaysian Internet users joining these popular services grows daily, it is time to take note.
Brands must begin to understand these new platforms to engage and enable deeper communication with their customers. While technologies that enable new interactions are still new and unfamiliar in many ways, we’re beginning to get requests from more of our clients to begin experimenting with it.
New technologies it may be, but the precept of communication still applies. The challenge is how do you use these new tools to enable deeper engagement, particularly if your target market is embracing these tools rapidly.
This week, we have the opportunity to launch two new social media marketing via Facebook pages for Guess Watches and GAP Malaysia. It’s a whole big socializing experiment – and the key objective is to gather feedback on how customers would like to engage with the brands.
Be a fan of these pages, and take part in shaping these new forms of engagement. If you have specific opinions on how these new social campaigns should take shape, we would like to hear from you. Drop a comment in this post!

Gap Malaysia Facebook Page
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