Abstract:
The research objectives were to explore the message strategies and presentation formats on Facebook pages of the multi-brand beauty product stores. Both quantitative and qualitative content analysis were employed the sample, 484 posts published from January-December 2022, on Facebook pages of two multi-brand beauty product stores administrating by a foreign company and a Thai company. Convenience sampling was used and the data were collected by the coded sheet developed with Taylors message strategy wheel and Ashley and Tuten message strategy. Analyzing the data with descriptive statistics and reporting the results with descriptive statistics and posts example description. The research results revealed that the top three of message strategies used on Facebook pages of the multi-brand beauty product stores in overall were Generic Strategy, User Image Strategy and Unique Selling Proposition. Based on communication ritual view, the top three of message strategies in overall were User Image Strategy, Resonance Strategy and Use Occasion Strategy. Based on communication transmission view, the top three of message strategies in overall were Use Occasion Strategy Unique Selling Proposition and Hyperbole Strategy. Categorizing the types of the multi-brand beauty product stores, the research results revealed that the top three of message strategies used on Facebook pages of the multi-brand beauty product stores administrating by the foreign company were Generic Strategy, User Image Strategy and Unique Selling Proposition. The top three of message strategies of multi-brand beauty product stores administrating by the Thai company were User Image Strategy, Generic Strategy and Resonance Strategy. The research results found that the message presentation formats of posts on the Facebook pages of multi-brand beauty product stores managed by foreign companies and those managed by Thai companies were similar. In general, message presentation formats of the two multi-brand beauty product stores were likely to post on Saturdays and Sundays, from 12.01 to 18.00 pm and the cosmetic products popular posted most. Additionally, for the presentation formats, the two multi-brand beauty product stores were likely to use texts, photos, short-formed clips, links for connecting brand channels, including brand models, actors/actresses and celebrities as products reviewer roles.