yMarketingMatters

OCTOBER 4, 2013

billion people using the site each month, 665 million active users each day, and generates up to 645 million local business page views per week, Facebook has proved that its popularity amongst users is here to stay. These search ranking benefits makes Google+ an important social media site to consider for your business.

Social Media 275

Social Media Foursquare Social Bookmarking LinkedIn 275

Convince & Convert

JUNE 25, 2013

The following 7 statistics will give you an idea of just how big this is, and how much bigger it’ll be over the next few years. 75% of Americans admit to bringing their phone to the bathroom. Pay close attention. So much so, that they take the device with them wherever they go, even the bathroom. This figure is up from 93.1

Mobile 167

Mobile Retail Marketing Smart Phone 167

Saying It Social

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I promptly pulled out my smart phone, went to Google and typed merely “Italian deli&# – not having to add a geographic modifier because the GPS on my phone was enabled and would automatically pull local business listings based on my current location. First an anecdote, then the facts.

Mobile 135

Mobile Smart Phone StumbleUpon comScore 135

Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Greg Jarboe lists nine helpful rules for video marketing, such as “Rule 1: YouTube marketing is the new video marketing…YouTube gets more than 86 percent of visits to 77 video sites in this country.&# (Hulu, at #2, gets less than 4% of visits.) percent of viewers discovered videos by going to a video site (i.e.,

Social Media 257

Social Media Trendrr SM2 Alterian 257

Convince & Convert

MARCH 16, 2010

However, it’s important to recognize that 3 times more people use Facebook from a smart phone every month than use Twitter at all. The site is exceptionally poor at welcoming and training new users , which may result in its high churn rate. But a bigger problem with Twitter is that like CB Radio, it doesn’t scale well.

Social Media 125

Social Media Strategy Foursquare Social CRM 125

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Location, Location, Location The biggest story of the event was the widespread usage of presence services foursquare and Gowalla. foursquare has a very interesting new dashboard that shows business owners data about how and when people have checked-in. I’ll write about that soon. as they are in Asia, just not yet.

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Social Media Strategy Conference Eventful 128