Small Business Marketing Blog | Blog on social media | Blog on Info-Marketing » small busienss amrketing http://www.buzzbooster.com/marketing-blog/ Small business marketing, social media, and information marketing for the smart business owner. By Shahar and Nashlah Boyayan. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:49:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Facts on small business marketing and social media http://www.buzzbooster.com/marketing-blog/2010/06/04/facts-on-small-business-marketing-and-social-media/ http://www.buzzbooster.com/marketing-blog/2010/06/04/facts-on-small-business-marketing-and-social-media/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:56:26 +0000 The BuzzBooster Team! http://www.buzzbooster.com/marketing-blog/2010/06/04/facts-on-small-business-marketing-and-social-media/
  • 2009 US Department of Education study revealed that on average, online students out performed those receiving face-to-face instruction
  • 80% of companies use social media for recruitment; % of these using LinkedIn 95%
  • The fastest growing segment on Facebook is 55-65 year-old females
  • Ashton Kutcher and Ellen Degeneres (combined) have more Twitter followers than the  populations of Ireland, Norway, or Panama.  Note I have adjusted the language here after someone pointed out the way it is phrased in the video was difficult to determine if it was combined.
  • 50% of the mobile Internet traffic in the UK is for Facebook…people update anywhere, anytime…imagine what that means for bad customer experiences?
  • Generation Y and Z consider e-mail passé – some universities have stopped distributing e-mail accounts
  • Instead they are distributing: eReaders + iPads + Tablets
  • What happens in Vegas stays on YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook…
  • The #2 largest search engine in the world is YouTube
  • While you watch this 100+ hours of video will be uploaded to YouTube
  • Wikipedia has over 15 million articles…studies show it’s more accurate than Encyclopedia Britannica…78% of these articles are non-English
  • There are over 200,000,000 Blogs
  • Because of the speed in which social media enables communication, word of mouth now becomes world of mouth
  • If you were paid a $1 for every time an article was posted on Wikipedia you would earn $156.23 per hour
  • 25% of search results for the World’s Top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content
  • 34% of bloggers post opinions about products & brands
  • Do you like what they are saying about your brand? You better.
  • People care more about how their social graph ranks products and services  than how Google ranks them
  • 78% of consumers trust peer recommendations
  • Only 14% trust advertisements
  • Only 18% of traditional TV campaigns generate a positive ROI
  • 90% of people that can TiVo ads do
  • Kindle eBooks Outsold Paper Books on Christmas

    • These are facts from the video social Media Revolution

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