There was a really interesting study last year by BabyCenter, an online community for expectant and new moms.
I have to say I was not surprised to read that according to a survey by Mzinga and Babson Executive Education, that less than one in five marketers measured their ROI from their social media marketing efforts in 2009.
I received some interesting data today from Dessert Gallery (DG), a Houston-based cafe chain about their recent Facebook fan page campaign.
Earlier this week I published the findings of the ForeSee Results 2010 Social Media Report. Kevin Ertell who is Vice President of Retail Strategy for ForeSee Results and author of the report kindly agreed to answer my question about the report.
Interesting data in the ForeSee Results 2010 Social Media Report. Some of the key findings in the study, which looked at nearly 10,000 visitors to the biggest e-retail websites in the United States, include:
56% of shoppers to top e-retail websites who interact with social media websites have elected to “friend” or “follow” or [.
I have been really busy launching an online sports network so my posts have been a little sparse recently.
Companies “brag” all the time about the number of followers or friends that they have on Facebook or Twitter.
Last week I looked at some of the marketing strategies that are working on Facebook according to the September 2009 MarketingProfs survey of business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) marketers.
I have been going over the September 2009 MarketingProfs survey of business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) marketers to see what are some of the more successful tactics that they are seeing work on Facebook.
Some interesting data from a new report from Ad-ology called the “Small Business Marketing Forecast 2010”).
A new report from Marketing Sherpa called the “2010 Social Media Marketing Benchmark Report” shows the importance of social media marketing now from a strategic perspective.
It appears the hockey growth phrase of Twitter is over.
Twitter’s international traffic has flattened.
Last week I had the opportunity to beta test a cool new product from Flowtown. By entering in someone’s email address into the Flowtown system you can find out who a person is: their name, age, gender, occupation, and location.
Evan Carmichael just came out with his Top 50 SEO Posts of the Year and our post on Don’t Forget Search made his list.
If your target demographic is college students, there is no better way to reach this group that through Facebook.
Social media has transformed itself in the last 2 years from blogs and forums to Facebook and Twitter.
Great article on social media and Ashton Kutcher in Fast Company. Within the article, Fast Company discusses two successful social media campaigns that Kutcher’s social media agency have been involved in.
It’s that time of year when companies start to look towards 2010 and marketing executives are busy developing marketing plans for the new year.
Wanted to share this data with you before I went away for the holidays.
It is pretty apparent that traffic to Twitter.
One topic that comes up in conversation a lot is how to measure the effectiveness of a social media marketing campaign.