companies now use social media for marketing (though the figure varies widely based on size of company)? Get the details behind these stats and many, many more here in more than 40 of the best articles and blog posts about social media, search, budgeting and digital marketing research, facts and statistics of 2011 so far. Social Media Stats, Facts and Research Does Facebook Need To Build A Search Engine? by MediaPost SearchBlog Social media sites now drive more traffic to many popular sites—including Comedy Central, NFL.com and Netflix—than Google does. MORE >>

They dream of finding the greatest automated social marketing system that will instantly produce hordes of highly targeted conversion ready traffic. It is time to stop running your dealership on the lottery ticket business model, and it is time to begin social media marketing that will provide you persistent long term traffic to your site. In 2004 the MGM studio was sold to Sony for $4.85 It should, as it is the essence of long tail search theory and nowhere is it more powerful than in social media marketing. The Long Tail of Social Media. MORE >>

Tracking the effect of social media can be a challenge, particularly in regards to attributing conversion rates and sales in areas such as eCommerce. study just released by Adobe puts social as the source of 2% of traffic to U.S Back in 2004, a film named Fröken Sverige was released, starring Alexandra Dahlströhm. He’s a great example of someone who I would have never probably met if not for social media, and whose tastes  are generally not too far from my own – and when they are, there’s normally still things of interest in there. MORE >>

Home Consulting About Contact Subscribe Social Media Rockstar Social Media Blog – ::Social Media Rockstar:: A Brief History Of Social Media by Brett Borders on June 2, 2009 S ocial media isn’t really “new.&# These early social media explorers built “ boxes “… homemade electronic devices that could generate tones allowing them to make free calls and get access to the experimental back end of the telephone system. The first “tweetup&# type social media events were 2600 meetings. MORE >>

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Internet , Social Media > Social Media Insecurity: What to do When Online Activity Affects Your Offline Relationships Social Media Insecurity: What to do When Online Activity Affects Your Offline Relationships by Tamar Weinberg on August 18, 2010 Share As social media enthusiasts, we often forget that we live in a different type of world than everyone else. We almost have to create our own personal social media policy. MORE >>