52 Cool Facts About Social Media. 13.5K Shares 13.5K Shares × As social media continues to gain acceptance as a bona-fide communications platform, I thought it might be fun to have a cool fact about it for every week of the year. So, here are ten facts about the five most well-known social media outlets – Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and blogging – with two more bonus facts thrown in just for fun.
(And to get to the figure of a fact a week for a year). Enjoy! Facebook 1. Statistics from Facebook press office. Twitter 11. Statistics from Twitter and the Chirp Conference . LinkedIn 21. Statistics from LinkedIn press centre and SysComm International . YouTube 31. Statistics from YouTube press centre. Blogging 41. 77% of Internet users read blogs. 42. Statistics from Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2009 . Bonus Facts 51. 90% of Internet users know at least one social network. 52. Statistics from Online Media Gazette . Cheers! QR-Code Generator.
15 Frequently Asked Questions About Facebook Pages. Facebook provides a comprehensive Help Center with its own range of FAQs along with helpful content from a vast number of users. [There's even a handy Leaderboard - Top Contributor - with points system to see which users have been most helpful. Links just go to the user's personal Profile, though. It would be great to see all their answers in one place, similar to user profiles on Quora.] The Help Center can be difficult to navigate and zero in on the exact solution for the issue you’re having on Facebook.
I often find the most reliable way to find information on Facebook is to actually do a Google search! Then, there’s Facebook Questions which I have yet to find useful, quite frankly. It’s not intuitive to navigate and search for accurate answers. You could certainly search for answers to your Facebook questions on Quora – in many ways, this platform is easier and more helpful than Facebook’s Help Center and Questions. 1. You first need to get a minimum of 25 fans. 2. 3. 4. 5.
No. 6. 7. 20 Awesome Facebook Fan Pages. Facebook is a key online marketing tool for businesses-;if utilized to its fullest it can drive increased traffic to your website, generate additional sales, promote brand recognition and loyalty, and provide you with a direct communication link to your clients and customers. Here's 20 companies-;chosen from nominations by entrepreneurs, social media experts, Inc. editors, and Facebook-;that we think have awesome fan pages.
Vote for your favorites by clicking the "Like" button on this page. Bare Escentuals Minimalist is the answer for Bare Escentuals. Fans completely drive the conversation on wall updates, discussion boards and pictures. Mineral-based makeup is the new rock star in cosmetics, and companies have flooded the marketplace with natural-sounding "mineral" foundation, blush and eye-shadow formulations. That's why Bare Escentuals, the trailblazer in the mineral-makeup world, considers Facebook such an important brand-differentiation tool.
Hootsuite Was Down: 5 other Tools to Schedule Your Tweets. With Hootsuite being down I saw myself and lots of other people in dire need to continue scheduling tweets. So here is a list of 5 other services, which will allow you to schedule your tweets. They are all up and running. 1.) Twuffer Twuffer lets you schedule tweets on a clean interface and is completely free for you to use. 2.) FutureTweets FutureTweets is very similar to Twuffer and a service that is dedicated to allowing you to schedule tweets. 3.) In case you were looking for a slightly easier method, Buffer might be interesting to you. 4.)
This is another interesting tool allowing you to schedule your tweets in order to remind yourself about things you don’t want to forget. 5.) Twaitter is another tool which might take a bit of time to familiarize yourself with. Ok, that's it I hope the downtime of Hootsuite will end soon and if you are in desparate need for another scheduling tool, I hope the above ones help you with it! Connect: Authored by: Leo Widrich. To Twitter (7) 9 Companies Doing Social Media Right and Why. Is your business experiencing the social media success you had hoped for? Are you curious what successful companies are actually doing to gain social media success? You’ve come to the right place. This article highlights nine companies (big and small) that have transformed their online presence by implementing innovative social media marketing.
You’re sure to find inspiration for your social media efforts here. Look at the tactics these companies employ and don’t concentrate too much on the target audience. It doesn’t matter whom you’re targeting—these tactics will work for just about any business… so let’s dive in! #1: Martell Home Builders Martell Home Builders is an Atlantic Canadian custom homebuilder.
Martell started a content creation and blogging strategy to focus on their homebuyers’ needs. Notice in the image below the placement of their email capture box as well as their social media channel buttons. With innovative strategies, Martell has made the homebuilding experience social. 5 Easy Steps to a Winning Social Media Plan. So you’ve set up your social media empire using Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and you’re blogging too. But how do you make it all work together? You want to reach potential clients and establish your authority online, but what’s your plan? This article delivers five foolproof steps to get you on your way to finding, formulating and distributing content that will get you noticed. Content could include your own blog posts or links to others people’s work posted on your social networks. #1: Find Your Target Audience. The first step in social media planning is largely the first step in identifying your brand—determine who you are and who your customers are.
What unique aspect of your product or service attracts your target population? Are you a veteran business coach who works with small entrepreneurs? You’ll need to determine what your readers want to know from you, what their likes and dislikes are and where they congregate. You’ll also need to find the right tone. Become a reporter/editor. Downloads. How To Build Your Facebook Landing Page (If You’re Not A Programmer) | SocialMouths. Update: As you know Facebook no longer supports FBML for its tabs, which is what this post was based on, but there is an updated post about How to build a Facebook Landing Page with iFrames – Don’t miss it! Building a Facebook Landing Page is easier than you think, even if you are not a programmer. This week we’ll look at a topic that might seem basic for some. For other people, specially new visitors, this might feel like “been there done that”.
Yes, there are too many blog posts out there that have discussed the topic but I’ll promise you this: In the usual SocialMouths style, we’ll go over the why, the what and the hows of building a landing page for your Facebook Page. A guide to building a basic Facebook landing page. Also as usual, let’s start at the beginning. Why Is A Landing Page Important? The landing page is usually setup as the “Welcome” tab for people that has not “Liked” the page. But the Facebook Landing Page is important for two main reasons: What Is The Main Goal? 1. 2. 3. 10 Reasons Your Facebook Page Is Not Taking Off | SocialMouths.
Why isn’t my Facebook Page growing faster? Why aren’t people engaging more? I’m gonna say it right off the bat, I believe growing a community or achieving higher levels of engagement with your audience is harder on a Facebook Page than on a blog or Twitter. I usually hear this with clients and in random conversations. What is it that we fail to understand about them? Is it that we don’t really understand how the user interacts with a page or consumes its content? Do we know where this interaction happens, the Page or the News Feed? Are we supposed to deliver more in exchange of a “Like” than what we do for a Twitter “Follow”? Today we review a few things that we might be lacking in our daily operation and what we need to do in order to build a growing and engaging community on Facebook. What Are Your Facebook Goals?
Before we dive in, it is a big help if we have a clear picture of the desired outcome. 1. 2. This one is a biggy. 3. 4. 5. 6. Content is not only links. 7. 8. 9. 10. Your Turn. 23 Social Media Facts to Share with Executives. Thanks for stopping by! I appreciate it. If you enjoyed this post, please consider signing up to my RSS feed in your favorite reader or email.
For my job, I read and research A LOT and save A LOT of useful stats and figures that help “sell” the benefits of social media for companies. Not just from a communications perspective, but also from a strategic thinking and integration point of view. Usually they wind up stuck in my presentations or in my bookmark folders, but aren’t shared much outside of my company’s four walls – which is unfortunate. Social media is a place to share, so here is a breakdown of 23 high-level numbers and statistics that can make jaws drop, and get the hamsters in their heads turning the wheel. If you are asking why 23, well I was watching the NBA with my nephew when thinking up this post and figured I would pay homage to Jordan. Enjoy this post? Top 10 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog Using LinkedIn. Cracking the Code of Internet MarketingSocial Media Science: The Five W's of Twitter Marketing » Cracking the Code of Internet Marketing. If you’re doing any kind of Internet marketing you know the importance of fact gathering especially if you’re just starting out investing time, money and resources in social media.
We’re now well into the “early majority” phase of social media, it’s time to take a look at some interesting data for a peak behind the social media curtains. When strategizing your marketing campaign it’s critical to give yourself the highest chance of success. And by that I mean taking meaningful actions from reliable data not just making assumptions. The “medium” is no longer the message, just habits and channels. The message, in fact, IS the message. The Five W’s (and one H) of Twitter Twitter is probably one of the most talked about social media platform amongst marketers.
Since insights don’t announce themselves, I’m going to use the reports from Edison Research, Hubspot, Dan Zarrella and Pew Research to illustrate my points. Why Tweet Why people follow people? Who Tweets What to Tweet When to Tweet. How much does Social Media cost companies in 2011? | MackCollier.com. What the Hashtag?! - the user-editable encyclopedia for Twitter hashtags. Top 15 New Social Media Apps of 2010. By Jason Keath on Jan 04, 2011 Social media is fast becoming an ecosystem of mobile and web apps.
From business and enterprise tools to social games to personal and service based apps. When you think back to a year filled with social media dashboards, location apps, monitoring tools and photo sharing, which app was your favorite? Which ones were the most memorable? The most useful? We posed that same question to several social media leaders and personalities. 1. From Janet Aronica (@JanetAronica), OneForty.com Argyle is really making headway at tying Twitter & Facebook campaigns to actual business goals. 2. Not that Hootsuite is new per se for 2010, but they went from just a Twitter client into a serious business dashboard this year and reached their 1,000,000 user milestone. 3.
From Valeria Maltoni, (@conversationage), ConversationAgent.com 2010 BEST: Facebook Places. 4. From Chris Brogan (@chrisbrogan), ChrisBrogan.com Me? 5. From Owen JJ Stone (@ohdoctah), Inquiring Mindz Media 6. 7. 8. 9.