The best way to reach your customers is to go to them or commonly known as “pick up the ball”. With the prevalence of the Internet and many people spend their time on social sites, it is very important if you want to grow a business need to use the media soaial online and can connect with your customers and prospective customers.
Why is social media important?
Social media is a medium for social interaction, using communication techniques that are very easily accessible. Social media is the use of web-based and mobile technologies to transform communications into interactive dialogue -
1. Some facebook user statistics There are over 600 million Facebook users as in January 2011. growth per month in 2011 was 3.57% and it is estimated that 41.6% of the U.S. population have a Facebook account. 50% of the active FB users log on to FB on a certain day every minimal user has 130 friends on average Facebook user is connected to 80 community pages, groups. 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States and Entrepreneur developers from more than 190 countries build with Facebook Platform and installing applications 20 million per day more than 250 million people engage with Facebook on external Web sites since social plugins launched in April 2010, average of 10,000 new websites integrate with facebook every day More than 2.5 million websites have been integrated with facebook up to date There are more than 200 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices. People who use Facebook on their mobile device two times more active on facebook than non-mobile users. There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products
2. Some of the twitter user statistics Since its creation, in March 2006, Twitter has gained popularity worldwide and is estimated to have 190 million users. Produce 65 million tweets per day Handle more than 800,000 search queries per day. The average number of tweets per hour is about 1.3 juta.Twitter will process nearly 10 billion tweets in one year.
3. Some statistics penggunaLinkedin As of 1 January LinkedIn reports more than 90 million registered users, spanning more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. Quantcast reports Linkedin has 21.4 million U.S. monthly unique visitors and 47.6 million globally by a growing membership of new members approximately every second. Approximately half of the members are in the United States and 11 million were from Europe. With 3.5 million users, India has the fastest-growing network of users since 2010.Tujuan of this site is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business. The people on the list are called Connections. This list of connections can then be used in several ways: It can then be used to search for jobs, people and business opportunities recommended by someone in a network of contacts. The Employers can register jobs and looking for potential candidates. Only by reviewing their profiles
4. Some youtube user statistics 3 Biggest Website on the Internet # 1 video site in the world’s largest 300mm web visitors a month 100 Million Visitors per Month 5 Billion Video Streams Every month – 40% of all online videos 15 hours uploading videos every minute With nearly 3.5 million people visit the site every day, kind of videos they watch and interact with, have a huge impact on how we view the world. youtube Surpass 2 billion views per day of 24 hours of video uploaded on average each person spends 15mins minutes a day on youtube 70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the U.S. are localized in 23 countries in 24 different languages, the number of advertisers using display ads on youtube increased 10-fold in the last year More than 3 million people are connected and automatically share in a social network
Socializing and networking has always been a cornerstone of any business marketing strategy, and the same goes for the internet. By using these tips to take your business to the online social arena, you and your customers will be more connected than ever, and customers connected is faithful!
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Thanks Dotty,This ciilrfaed some of my questions about pages and profiles. I especially liked the marketing strategies.Linda