Researchers for the [Ehrenberg-Bass] institute looked at [Talking About This] as a proportion of overall fan growth of the top 200 brands on Facebook over a six-week period back in October and they found the percentage of People Talking About This to overall fans to be 1.3%.
This is a very interesting article about engagement on Facebook for large brand Pages. We’re not surprised at the small “conversion” numbers but, in our experience, we have managed to achieve much better engagement rates (4%+) on smaller Pages (think 30k likes vs. 3m likes) so there is a qualitative issue with large numbers of followers for a Facebook brand Page (namely, the more followers, the more likely they will consist of a majority of “light” followers). This is a must read though for social media marketers… (Study: Only 1% of Facebook ‘Fans’ Engage With Brands)
