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StumbleUpon Traffic to Magazine and Content Sites Down 27%

Adam Sherk

The news of layoffs at StumbleUpon reminded me that in compiling some year-end social media referral data I’d noticed that a number of sites had experienced declines in StumbleUpon traffic. Declines in StumbleUpon Traffic: 2012 vs. 2011. StumbleUpon Traffic Declines: Three-Year Trend. What Next for StumbleUpon?

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Survey: Third of Companies Use Social Media to Promote Their Business

Bill Hartzer

According to a brand new survey by CareerBuilder , one-quarter of businesses leverage social media to recruit and research possible staff. A brand new CareerBuilder survey reports that 35 % of employers use social media to market their company. Survey Methodology. This survey was conducted online within the U.S.

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Survey Shows Marketing Budgets to Increase Spend in Social Media, Search Engine Marketing in 2011

Bill Hartzer

An annual marketing budget survey of business-to-business marketing trends released today is showing that marketing departments are going to increase their budget in Social Media and in Search Engine Marketing in 2011. Share it on StumbleUpon. The study was conducted jointly by Goldstein Group Communications and Hearst Business Media.

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Social Media Budget Ratio in B2B Marketing

Buzz Marketing for Technology

They recently put out a 2010 Budget and Allocations trends document which surveyed the membership to gave you the chart above. As far as the rest of the percentages in the survey I can say I go much heavier on things like webinars and flash demos (which I am counting under corporate website spend). Share it on StumbleUpon.

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Time Spent Online Matches Time Spent Watching TV

Idaconcpts

Forrester’s survey does show a significant increase in the number of people using the Internet to watch streaming video,” the New York Times’ BitsBlog ’ reports, with “33 percent of adults surveyed [saying] they use the Internet to watch video, up from 18 percent in 2007.”. Share it on StumbleUpon. Email this to a friend?

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5 Reasons I’m Thankful for Social Media

Webbiquity SMM

Sure, surveys and focus groups still have their place, but you can learn a lot from what they’re saying in social media circles. At the very least, you’ll be able to craft more intelligent, informed questions for your survey. Share it on StumbleUpon. Want to know what your customers and prospects are thinking?

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Study: Facebook Fan Pages are Great Marketing Tool for Businesses

Bill Hartzer

The research, based on surveys of more than 1,700 respondents over a 3 month period, found that compared with typical Dessert Gallery customers, the Facebook fans: · Spent 33 percent more at DG’s stores. · Share it on StumbleUpon. Dholakia and Durham asked customers of Dessert Gallery (DG), a favorite Houston-based café chain.

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