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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

corporate expenditures on social media will increase by an AVERAGE of 34% a year , and that by 2012, as much will be spent on social media as on email marketing. As a relative newbie to the “virtual&# world, our business model is being very successful. Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S.

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Best Social Media and Digital Marketing Research and Statistics of 2011, Part 2

Webbiquity SMM

Jenise Uehara Henrikson highlights the phenomenal growth of social media over the last six years, and particularly since 2008. Aden Hepburn shares a wealth of social media ROI statistics here, such as that 74% of CMOs believe they will get a handle on social media ROI in 2012. Meanwhile, dating websites and virtual worlds (e.g.