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13 Mind-Bending Social Media Marketing Statistics

September 1, 2011 Molly White No comments

13 Mind-Bending Social Media Marketing Statistics

reprinted from Hubspot

1. 20 percent of searches on Google each day have NEVER been searched for before. (Source)

2. There are more than 3.5 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, etc.) shared each week on Facebook. (Source)

3. 43 percent of all online consumers are social media fans or followers (Source)

4. 53 percent of people on Twitter recommend companies or their products in their tweets. (Source)

5. The average American internet user watches 30 minutes of video online per day. (Source)

6. 35 hours of video footage is uploaded to YouTube every minute. (Source)

7. 56 percent of LinkedIn’s 100 million users are outside of the United States. (Source)

8. Every day, 2,300 new Wikipedia articles are created, adding to its 17 million articles, with contributions from 91,000 active contributors. (Source)

9. 1.4 million new blog posts are created every day. (Source)

10. 200 million Facebook users access the service from a mobile device. (Source)

11. There are more than 5 billion photos on Flickr. (Source)

12. 45 million people view SlideShare presentations each month. (Source)

13. $3.08 billion will be spent to advertise on social networking sites in 2011, a 55 percent increase over 2010. (Source)

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Fabulous Facebook Page-Dapple Gray Designs

June 30, 2011 Molly White No comments
Dapple Gray Designs 1 000 Fans Celebration

I love finding small businesses that are using Facebook and other social media outlets in the best possible way.  When I come upon a business that gives me current, useful information, takes adavantage of the free tools available to build out their presence and engages their audience, it makes me smile.  Sometimes I find myself liking a page, even if I don’t ever intend to frequent the business, just because the page is so awesome.

 

And then you know what happens, I end up frequenting their business because their stuff keeps coming up in my newsfeed and I’m reminded why I liked their page. Since I liked their page, I’m probably going to like their product or service. Because that’s what good social media does!

 

I’ve decided that it would be fun to regularly highlight the businesses that I think do a great job with their social media and explain why I love them.

 

First up, Dapple Gray Designs.  Full disclosure, the owner is a friend of mine, but she is not a client.  She engages her fans, partners with businesses like her own and with blogs whose reader base is her target customer, uses the free apps available to customize her page, rewards and interacts with her fans, and keeps people updated on the most current inventory and news about the business.  The only expense for this page, is the product that she gives away.  Everything else on here is free.

Dapple Gray Designs, makes and sells adorable children’s clothes at reasonable prices.  The clothes are sold on Etsy, at boutiques, and through the Facebook page itself.  Suzi, the owner, has worked really hard to grow her fan base and market herself, almost solely through her Facebook business page.  In less than a year’s time she has accrued over 1,000 quality fans. I mention quality, because it isn’t all about the number of fans a business has, it’s about the likelihood those fans will frequent the business.

 

Dapple Gray Designs, partnered with blogs that catered to mothers who would likely purchase her designs and started offering giveaways through these blogs.  A condition of entrance, was fanning her page.

Then once people started liking the page, and buying and winning her clothes, she encouraged people to post pictures of their children wearing the clothes.  Once people did that, she would repost the pictures to ensure that all of her fans saw the cute kids in the cute clothes.

This is a great way to encourage people to interact with a page.  Who doesn’t want to brag about how cute their kids are and hear other people tell them that their kids are in fact, the adorable!?

Suzi also uses her status updates to showcase new products and announce their availability.

And since people are being encouraged to actually go to her page, not just read about Dapple Gray Designs in their newsfeed, Suzi has taken full advantage of the FREE custom tab apps that are available.  She’s using, Static HTML for Pages as a welcome landing page, Payvment as a shopping cart from within Facebook, MyEtsy which ports her etsy page to her Facebook page, and the Sweepstakes app to host a giveaway on her page.

On top of all of these tools, Suzi, very cleverly, hyped up a big promotion for when she hit 1,000 fans.  Suzi partnered with other shops and designers of handmade goods for children and hosted joint giveaways encouraging entrants to like both the Dapple Gray page and the partner page in order to enter the contest.  She used Google Forms to create entrant forms, and the notes section of the Dapple Gray Designs fan page to list the details of entry as well.

The 1,000 fans celebration contest is still running, I’ve entered to win a few things myself!  Hats off to Suzi for using all of these tools to her advantage and for doing such a successful job marketing Dapple Gray Designs.

 

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Social Media Statistics in Video Format

June 29, 2011 Molly White No comments

This video was produced by Socialnomics, author, Eric Qualman using June 2011 information.

There are some powerful takeaways from this video including the information listed below.

  • If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s third largest, yet Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google, aren’t welcome in China
  • 95% of companies using social media for recruitment, use LinkedIn.
  • Lady Gaga, Justin Beiber, and Britney Spears have more twitter followers than the entire populations of Sweden, Israel, Greece, Chile, North Korea, and Australia.
  • The Ford Explorer launch on Facebook generated more traffic than a Superbowl ad
  • 69% of parents are friends with their children on social media
  • 34% of bloggers post opinions about brands and products
  • 90% of consumers trust peer recommendations, 14% trust advertisements

 

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30 Social Media Statistics

June 28, 2011 Molly White No comments

Here is a list of 30 Social Media Statistics from the last several months. These were orginally posted by Jeff Esposito, and then reposted to All Facebook.

  • 5 percent of online shoppers note that social media influenced them to visit a retailer’s website (Foresee)
  • 82 percent of 18-29 year olds utilize a form of social networking (Pew)
  • 42 percent of American internet users over 18 actively use Wikipedia (Pew)
  • 40% of corporate Twitter accounts engage in some kind of customer service (Burson-Marsteller)
  • In 2011 marketers will increase their social media usage by 75 percent (Brian Solis)
  • 48 percent of consumers combine social media and search engines in their buying process (GroupM)Staff Members Dedicated to Social Media
  • 10.5 percent of CMOs say social marketing efforts are effectively integrated into their overall marketing strategy (MarketingProfs)
  • 97 percent of the top US charities utilize Facebook in their marketing efforts (UMass Dartmouth)
  • Of all social networks, YouTube has the highest Net Promoter Score with 50 percent of users saying they would recommend it to a friend (MarketingProfs)
  • ~140 Million Tweets are sent each day (Twitter)
  • 24 percent of adults have posted a review of a product they have purchased (HubSpot)
  • 41 percent of the companies report that there is no staff dedicated to social media (Useful Social Media)
  • 89 percent of companies note that social media will become a useful cog in their marketing mix moving forward (Useful Social Media)
  • 35 percent of small businesses utilize social media in their marketing mix (eMarketer)
  • Facebook expects to bring n $4.05 billion in ad revenues this year (eMarketer)
  • Facebook is the leading social network for nine out of 13 Asia-Pacific countries (Edelman)
  • One out of every six minutes spent online is on a social network (comScore)
  • 73 percent of the US internet population visits Facebook each month (comScore)
  • 62 percent of Facebook users between 35-54 years of age have liked a brand (eMarketer)
  • 64 percent of Twitter users are female (Pew)
  • 85 percent of LinkedIn users are Caucasian (Pew)
  • 47 percent of journalists will use Twitter as a source for a story (Digital Journalism Study)
  • Less than 3 percent of micro businesses utilize Twitter (Vistaprint)
  • 61.2 percent of Facebooking females list themselves as married less than a year, compared to 44.3 percent of males (AdAge)
  • The average media site integrated with Facebook has seen a 300 percent increase in referral traffic (Search Engine Land)
  • 61 percent of Facebook users who have liked a brand note that they are more likely to purchase from that brand (AllFacebook)
  • 96 percent of Americans use Facebook (Business Insider)
  • 80 percent of social media marketers are using the platforms to increase brand awareness (eMarketer)
  • Only 8 percent of US internet users utilize Twitter despit despite having a 92 percent awareness level (Edison Research)
  • 46 million Americans check their social media profiles daily (Edison Research)
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Behind the Curtains of Facebook Business Pages

June 20, 2011 Molly White No comments

The thing about social media sites is that they are all about showing the “Great and Powerful Oz”, in other words, they show the person behind the curtain.  Who is it that is running or working for businesses that you like on Facebook or follow on Twitter, or whose blog you read?

Is it the business owner herself? Is it a random employee? A person in the marketing department or someone like me, a person outside of the organization who is hired to run the social media?  And what’s the real difference?

If the person is doing his or her job correctly, the difference is nill.  The voice of the business on social media sites should convey the same tone that has been delivered via their additional marketing efforts.

In the case of small businesses, many times, an owner simply doesn’t have the time to dedicate to the maintenance and development of social media outlets.  I on the other hand, am on Facebook ALL day long.  I read it from my phone when I’m not in front of my computer and I have the tab on my computer pinned in my Chrome browser.

To run a Facebook page effectively, one must not only update and communicate with their fans, but must also stay up to date an in tune with their vendors, competitors and community and what they are doing on Facebook.  It’s good business sense to also go ahead and like those pages personally, as well as on behalf of the business.

For example I work for several businesses in the events and wedding industry. I am happy to say that I have been happily married for more than 7 years. I do however, follow a wide variety of wedding and event blogs, wedding vendors, bridal retailers and brands, and a handful of caterers, photographers, florists and other businesses associated with event planning as well as wedding sites and magazines.  They are not only a source of information, but also of inspiration.

I also meet, email and speak with my clients regularly and have acquired a solid feel for the way they conduct themselves in their businesses.  Because it is my job to act on their behalf when on Facebook, Twitter or blogging.  While I may not be a traditional employee, I am in fact, part of the staff, for my clients. I even had the privilege of attending a client’s wedding this past Spring and was included in the company baseball outing just last week.  Just a day’s work for this Social Media Manager :)

I run my own business, but I feel like I am part of each of my clients businesses as well.  It’s the best of all worlds and I absolutely love what I do.

 

Courtesy of Business Insider

 

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