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Credit Union - Are you getting "diddly squat" from your bank? What's Wrong With Multi-Level Marketing? Social Media Trends That Will Shape 2014. During the past few years, social media has experienced exponential growth in the number of social media platforms available, the number of users on each, and the way consumers are utilizing each medium, especially on sites like Pinterest, Facebook, YouTube, Google+, and Twitter.

Social Media Trends That Will Shape 2014

Consumers are integrating these platforms into their daily lives and multitasking more than ever. Nielsen Incite reports that 40 percent of consumers use their mobile device or tablet while watching television, most often to check email. The total time spent on social media in the US increased 37 percent, up in July 2012 to 121 billion minutes versus 88 billion minutes in July 2011. Chart/table from: Smartphone Penetration Tops 65% of the US Mobile Market in Q4 2013. How Does Live TV Consumption Measure Up Against Recorded Content?

Chart/table from: Smartphone Penetration Tops 65% of the US Mobile Market in Q4 2013

Chart/table from: Across 8 Major Markets, Tablet Share of Web Traffic Exceeds Smartphone Share. How Does Live TV Consumption Measure Up Against Recorded Content?

Chart/table from: Across 8 Major Markets, Tablet Share of Web Traffic Exceeds Smartphone Share

Facebook moves beyond 'male' and 'female' with custom gender options. Facebook today announced that users in the US now have the ability to select a custom gender for their Timeline profile pages.

Facebook moves beyond 'male' and 'female' with custom gender options

Aside from Male or Female, Facebook now offers "Other," a new setting that lets users choose between ten gender options such as "cisgender," "transgender," and "intersex," and define which pronoun they'd like to be referred to as — he / his, she / her, or they / their. Moreover, Facebook also now lets you define exactly who can see the Gender section on your profile. Facebook says it worked closely with LGBT activist groups to choose the new profile options. The social network hasn't provided a timeline on when the new option will roll out to the rest of its users outside the US. Engagement: The leading indicator of product-market fit — All Things Product Management.

So now that we know what’s engagement and how to measure it, how do we drive it?

Engagement: The leading indicator of product-market fit — All Things Product Management

User engagement can be categorized in one of two types: Natural and Manufactured. Natural engagement is the result of the derived benefit (or value) from using your product or service. This is the most important form of engagement, and if you don’t have a set of customers in this category you could infer that you haven’t really found product-market fit. A few years back I attended a conference in which Dick Hardt made an awesome analogy to categorize products. He suggested that products could be categorized as vitamins, pain killers, or viagra. Vitamins are products that, in theory, are good for you, but their benefits aren’t visible immediately.

Facebook mission statement 2013. This is Facebook, Inc. mission statement overview for 2013.

Facebook mission statement 2013

For more information on how to write a mission statement, please refer to our article. Company background Facebook, Inc. is an internet corporation, which runs the social networking website Facebook. Facebook became a public company after its record initial public offering (IPO) on February 2012. Facebook is the largest social networking website and has more than a billion active users. Mission Statement for Success. Definition “Mission statement is a description of what an organization actually does – what its business is – and why it does it.” [1] Understanding the tool Often called the “credo”, “philosophy”, “core values” or “our aspirations”, organization’s mission is the statement that defines its core purpose or reason for being [2].

Mission Statement for Success

It tells who a company is and what it does. According to P. Facebook Mission Statement - Mission, Vision, Headquarters, Founders Facts and Trivia About Facebook Social Media Network and Mark Zuckerberg. Strategic planning. Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy.

Strategic planning

It may also extend to control mechanisms for guiding the implementation of the strategy. Strategic planning became prominent in corporations during the 1960s and remains an important aspect of strategic management. It is executed by strategic planners or strategists, who involve many parties and research sources in their analysis of the organization and its relationship to the environment in which it competes.[1] Strategy has many definitions, but generally involves setting goals, determining actions to achieve the goals, and mobilizing resources to execute the actions.

A strategy describes how the ends (goals) will be achieved by the means (resources). Strategy includes processes of formulation and implementation; strategic planning helps coordinate both. Process[edit] Mission statement. A mission statement is a statement of the purpose of a company, organization or person, its reason for existing.

Mission statement

The mission statement should guide the actions of the organization, spell out its overall goal, provide a path, and guide decision-making. It provides "the framework or context within which the company's strategies are formulated. " It's like a goal for what the company wants to do for the world.[1] According to Bart,[2] the commercial mission statement consists of three essential components: Key market: Who is your target client or customer (generalize if needed)? See also[edit] Strategic planning. We Are Social - Social Media Agency / Social Media Marketing / Online PR Agency - Singapore, Southeast Asia, Asia Pacific.

Chart/table from: 77% of Smartphone Users Accessed Local Content in December 2012. How Does Live TV Consumption Measure Up Against Recorded Content?

Chart/table from: 77% of Smartphone Users Accessed Local Content in December 2012

7 in 10 TV households in the US use at least one on-demand service, whether that be a DVR, a Netflix subscription, or video-on-demand (VOD) from a cable or telco provider, according to recent data from Leichtman Research Group (LRG). Still, a recent Ipsos study found that live TV remains the typical viewing method for […] Read more » Quality Content Creation Said Most Effective – and Difficult – SEO Tactic Almost half of marketers and sales practitioners believe that SEO has become more effective for them over the past year, according to [download page] the results of a survey conducted by Ascend2 and Research Partners.

Top 15 Most Popular Social Networking Sites. Here are the top 15 Most Popular Social Networking Sites as derived from our eBizMBA Rank which is a continually updated average of each website's U.S. Traffic Rank from Quantcast and Global Traffic Rank from both Alexa and SimilarWeb. "*#*" Denotes an estimate for sites with limited data. Klout, controversial service that measured online 'influence,' reportedly being acquired for $100 million. Klout, a San Francisco startup that quantified people's online influence by assigning it a Klout score, has reportedly been acquired by Lithium Technologies for $100 million. It seemed the service was struggling to build a successful business, and in fact founder and CEO Joe Fernandez blogged publicly about his trials and tribulations.

Six days ago Klout launched a major redesign of its website that shifted the focus towards helping users improve their scores, but it seems that the final result was a sale and soft landing. The final result was a sale and soft landing. When Klout was founded back in 2008, the world of social networks was still maturing. The giant public companies of today — Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn — were still startups. The drawback was that many people hated the idea of being ranked, a sort of high school popularity contest writ large across the web.

Chart/table from: Smartphone Penetration in Top Digital Markets Set to Double by 2015. How Does Live TV Consumption Measure Up Against Recorded Content? 7 in 10 TV households in the US use at least one on-demand service, whether that be a DVR, a Netflix subscription, or video-on-demand (VOD) from a cable or telco provider, according to recent data from Leichtman Research Group (LRG). Still, a recent Ipsos study found that live TV remains the typical viewing method for […] Read more » Quality Content Creation Said Most Effective – and Difficult – SEO Tactic Almost half of marketers and sales practitioners believe that SEO has become more effective for them over the past year, according to [download page] the results of a survey conducted by Ascend2 and Research Partners. Read more » Year-to-Date Marketing Budget Sentiment, by Medium. 3 Million Teens Leave Facebook In 3 Years: The 2014 Facebook Demographic Report.

3 years ago, we published a report on 2011 Facebook Demographics & Statistics that covered gender, location, education, and more (US only). Recently we dove into Facebook’s Social Advertising platform to get a refreshed snapshot of the same data points to see what exactly has happened over time and to look at the numbers behind many recent claims: teenagers are leaving by the millions. Enjoy! Top Insights: 1) Teens (13-17) on Facebook have declined -25.3% over the last 3 years. 2) Over the same period of time, 55+ has exploded with +80.4% growth in the last 3 years. 3) Of the major metropolitan areas, San Francisco saw the highest growth with +148.6%, a stark contrast with Houston which saw +23.8% growth.

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