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How Are Businesses Using Social Media? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Shea Bennett — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 06:00:10 +0000

Did you know that almost one-quarter (22.5 percent) of all time spent online is used for social networking?

This, of course, presents a huge financial and marketing opportunity for businesses of all shapes and sizes across almost every industry worldwide. Indeed, global social commerce revenues are expected to reach an estimated $30 billion by 2015.

So how are brands capitalising on this social smorgasbord?

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Why Social Media Is Good For Business [INFOGRAPHIC]

Shea Bennett — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:00:46 +0000

Did you know that 75 percent of people feel that their company is behind the curve when it comes to the use of social media?

If platforms such as Twitter and Facebook are prohibited where you work then this might not be all that surprising. Indeed, about half of all U.S. employers block their staff from accessing social networking sites in the office. But why? What are they afraid of?

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The Social Media Statistics Of Fortune 500 Companies [INFOGRAPHIC]

Shea Bennett — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:00:11 +0000

Did you know that 62 percent of Fortune 500 companies have an active corporate Twitter account?

Perhaps surprisingly, this is ahead of those with an active Facebook Page (58 percent), but collectively the rapid growth of these channels, as well as the proliferation of corporate blogging (which, while still a force, has been stalled by the social media rise), is indicative of a broader, sweeping change in the ways that businesses are using these tools to connect and engage with their customers. Which is great news not only for the end user, who is now empowered to liaise with brands directly (and openly), demanding better service and products, but also for marketers, who can tailor and scale campaigns to a degree that is unparalleled in history.

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Why Your Business MUST Go Social [INFOGRAPHIC]

Shea Bennett — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:00:57 +0000

In just a few short years, social media has allowed businesses of all shapes and sizes to build large, highly-engaged communities of fans and customers, raising brand awareness, driving traffic to e-commerce portals and boosting sales.

It’s as recent as 2006 that both Twitter and Facebook opened their doors to the general public, but the world has changed dramatically in that time. Some 80 percent of Americans now use at least one social network – that’s over 245 million people.

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