Thursday, December 22, 2011

What’s the 2011 World Record for Most Comments on a Facebook Wall Post?

62% Of Consumers Have Used Social Media For Customer Support

Key takeaways include:

  • Facebook leads all social platforms for brand interaction, with 34 percent of the users polled favoring that network, ahead of second-placed Twitter and Blogs (both 4 percent)
  • Retail customers are more likely to reach for social media support than those in any other category
  • 62 percent of consumers have used social media for customer service issues, but 76 percent of the users polled say they would be more likely to use these tools if they better understood how they worked

Monday, December 19, 2011

The State of Email Marketing

Here are a few interesting statistics from the infographic:

  • 83% of people check email first on a business day
  • 72% check 6 or more times per day (I’m in this camp, no doubt)
  • 88% of people surveyed check their email via a mobile device
  • 63% of those people check at least once a day

What makes a customer buy something online?

Canada's happiest cities on Twitter

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Is Gamification The Next Big Thing?

The term effectively means “the application of concepts and techniques from games into other areas”, and as can be seen below, is on Oxford’s Short List for Word of the Year. To me, it’s the idea that everybody is obsessed with getting points and gaining levels, so why not put that into every activity we do? If people can spend 8 hours a day clicking around a virtual farm just to get a few more gold points, why not make it so that people at work get similar gamified rewards? That’s the promise behind gamification, and I’m not audacious enough to say I know exactly how it will pan out, but I believe this is a sea change for incentivization.

Is Social Media Ruining Our Minds?

The Top Names On Twitter In 2011

Some of favorites:

  • The most popular cat name was Tiger (and in the top 5 was Tigger).
  • The most popular “villain” was Moammar Gadhafi, followed by Osama Bin Laden.
  • Rupert Murdoch dominated the scandalous names of the year.
  • The most-searched-for name on WhitePages.com was John Smith, followed by Mary Smith.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

2011 Social Sharing Trends

Some other interesting statistics:

  • Facebook makes up 52.1% of all sharing on the web.
  • Twitter makes up 13.5% of all shared items on the web
  • Internet Explorer is on the decline for total shares
  • Chrome is slowly gaining market share, and has passed Firefox in terms of shares

7 Ways To Grow Your Fan Base

3 In 4 Think Facebook Has Yet To Improve Their World

Friday, December 2, 2011

How The Internet Looked in 1996 vs 2011

In The Golden Age Of Twitter And Facebook, Is Email Dead?

Key takeaways:

  • There are almost 3 billion active email accounts around the world, sending 188 billion messages every single day
  • The average email account receives 64.8 emails each day
  • 107 trillion emails were sent in 2010, which was up 19 percent from 2009

6 Ways To Psyche People Into Shopping On Facebook

That said, here are six ways to appeal to people’s psyches to motivate purchases:

  1. When people feel insecure about making a decision, they turn to others;
  2. The most authoritative of these sources will end up with the strongest influence on a person’s decision;
  3. Scarcity of any resource makes it seem more valuable;
  4. People want to emulate those that they like;
  5. When faced with uncertainty, people tend to make decisions that are consistent with what they’ve done in the past; and
  6. People have an innate desire to repay favors from others.

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