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Who Uses Social Media Networking Sites? Some of the initial information that Pew Internet presents relates to the social user and who they actually are by age, race and gender. Build it, share it, connect it all (infostripe) on infostripe.
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4 Creative Ways To Reward Your Facebook Fans. A key part of your Facebook marketing strategy is figuring out how to build and engage your fan base—and one of the best ways to do this is by rewarding your Facebook audience for becoming and staying fans. "Fans have signaled a level of passion or connection with a brand, so rewarding that acknowledgement only further endears the brand to those fans," says Blake Cahill, principal and president of social media agency Banyan Branch. "Giving fans what they want can vary from discounts, to empowering them to support causes, to providing them with exclusive content and information. In many cases, success is a mix of all of these. " Here are four great ways to reward your Facebook fans for their continued engagement and support: 1. Offer exclusive discounts, coupons and content Discounts and specials are definitely among the most popular ways of rewarding Facebook fans, says Ron Schott, senior strategist at the Spring Creek Group. 2. 3.
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Genius Idea: Embedding all the media on the web. When traversing the web, most site visitors will stay on a page 250% longer when there's embedded media, Sean Creeley tells me. Creeley is the founder of Y Combinator startup Embedly; Embedly's mission is to make it painstakingly easy for publishers and application developers to add that embedded media and better engage their web users. "The idea is to engage the user where they are," says Creeley.
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Approximately 6.2% of adults with mobile phones looked at an ad sent with a text message in the last 30 days (some 12.5 million people), while 2.65% of adults with mobile phones used text messaging to respond to an ad or to make a purchase in the last 30 days (some 5.3 million people). Millennials (born 1977 to 1994) are 57% more likely than the average cell phone owner to have looked at a texted ad. Moreover, they are 93% more likely to have used text to respond to an ad or to make a purchase. About GfK MRI GfK MRI is part of The GfK Group, based in Nuremberg, Germany. The Future of Advertising Will Be Integrated. Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster) a VC at GRP Partners. He blogs at BothSidesoftheTable. Banner Ads. They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself.
They were very effective back then, with the original ad garnering a 78% click-through rate (CTR)! I guess from there we had nowhere to go but down. Nowadays banner ads get on average 0.2% CTR meaning for every 1,000 ads that are served up only 2 people click on them. And as Jon Steinberg of Buzzfeed points out, the CTRs for social media banner ads are just 0.08%.
Holy Shiitake! Despite its creation more than 15 years ago, banner ads have been surprisingly resilient despite their lack of efficacy. The fundamental problem with banner ads is a condition called “banner blindness” meaning that our eyes are really quickly trained to look at what is most relevant on the page – the content we want to see. I’m sure it probably resonants with how most of you read the web. Integrated Advertising.