Still Think Social Media Is A Fad?

Still think Social Media is a fad? 00 00 00 Your friend, client, prospect, grandmother, colleague, investor, mechanic, doctor, realtor, teacher, dietician veterinarian, grocer, pastor, hair dresser doesn't think so! facebook twitter and Linked in oh my Linked in estabisted 20 facebook twitter estabisted 204 +- estabiste 206 over 600 million users over 200 million users over 100 million users 50% of active users log on every day generates 65 million tweets a day averages 1 new user per second the average user has 130 friends used strictly for business networking 5% of users account for 75% of all activity 700 billion minutes spent on facebook each month 83% of users post less than one update/day 80% of companies used Linkedln as a recruitment tool Facebook is worth appox 50 billion bucks Twitter is worth approx 5 billion bucks LinkedIn is worth approx 1.5 billion bucks Still Not Convinced? Over 50% of the world's population is under 30-years-old 96% of them have joined a social network The fastest growing segment on Facebook is 55-65 year-old females People care more about how their social graph ranks products and services than how Google ranks them Business 2 BusinessS use social media more than Business 2 Consumer not much more though.. 86% vs 82% The top applications for the use of social media for b2b marketers are thought leadership (59.8%), lead generation (48.9), customer feedback (45.7%) and advertising on sites (34.7%) If Facebook were a country... it would be the world's 3rd largest (ahead of the US) 78% of consumers trust peer recommendations only 14% trust advertisements Social Media isn't a fad... it's THE way we now communicate with our friend, client, prospect, grandmother, colleague, investor, mechanic, doctor, realtor, teacher, dietician veterinarian, gracer, pastor, hair dresse. STATS FROM facebook.com, linkedin.com, twitter.com, wikipedia.com, sysomos.com, socialnomics.net, bizreport.com, btobonline.com bly one creative agency