Posts tagged “social media marketing”

February 23rd, 2012

Smartphones R Us!  As marketers (and social media marketers especially) we can’t be more pleased to see this trend.

February 23rd, 2012
February 23rd, 2012
February 22nd, 2012
Almost 4 in 5 event marketers said that social media is either somewhat or extremely important to them as a marketing tool.
A great stat with even more social media-friendly data in this article: Event Marketers Turn to Social Media.
February 21st, 2012
February 16th, 2012

These two charts make ir abundantly clear how critical social media is to the generation of online revenue.  It’s all about integrating social media marketing into the overall marketing mix, not replacing other marketing efforts.

(Source: emarketer.com)

February 15th, 2012
Facebook page visits were by far the most popular earned media action, representing 62 percent of all post-view activity. Brand-specific actions, such as store locator usage, brand page visits, etc., were the next most popular actions, accounting for 15 percent of the post-view activity. Surprisingly, Tweets were the least popular action, representing approximately one percent of the post-view activity.
From a study about the impact (and ROI) of “social video): The surprising drivers of social video success.
February 15th, 2012
February 14th, 2012

Good news for us social media marketers.  But the survey makes it clear that we still have to prove ROI…