Posts Tagged ‘stats and facts’

Social Media shifts from Tactics to Strategy


// December 22nd, 2009 // No Comments » // Blog

Marketing Sherpa has released a report titled “2010 Social Media Marketing Benchmark report” which details the importance of strategy in social media marketing.

It demonstrates that we are shifting phase in the social media marketing roll out, from the trial phase, where companies dip their toes in the social media ocean, to the strategic phase, where companies begin to integrate social media into to their core business. It is important to note that in the trial phase, companies are concerned with learning what works, largely by trial and error. As we move in to the strategic phase the focus shifts to proving the value of social media activity through quantifiable ROI, among other success measures. (more…)

19% of tweets are brand mentions


// September 22nd, 2009 // No Comments » // Blog

Case studies abound about how twitter can be used for sales, and there are various studies about the demographics that use Twitter. However, there is little in the way of research about what users tweet about, and if brands have a place on the social network. That is until now. A study, which looked at roughly 150,000 tweets, examined how users were talking about brands using micro-blogging platforms such as Twitter. The paper, published by Prof Jansen at Penn State University, reveals that 19% of tweets are brands mentions. (more…)

And now you know!


// September 22nd, 2009 // No Comments » // Blog

The fourth video in the ever popular “Did you know?” series. Lots of interesting facts and figures to show quite how things are changing: