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Facebook Facts

We’ve chatted about it a bit before, How I would recommend picking a Social Media medium and using it well instead of doing 4-8 different mediums  and doing them all haphazard. Well, today, it looks like if you want to pick one-pick Facebook.  Check these interesting facts out:

Research by DDB Worldwide and Opinionway Research finds 84% of  typical Facebook fans of business’ and products are existing customers. Tip here is you are marketing to people who already like your brand! Treat them this way and You’ll win in the end. Treat them like people who don’t know or care about your brand and you’re missing the boat. What I’d do is give them free things, secret specials only found on Facebook, Announcements about new products coming out  just to these “favorite” fans, some sort of frequent Facebook Club, etc

Social Media Products Director of web analytics firm Webtrends Mr, Kistner says 51% of people in the US HAVE Facebook accounts, 8% have Twitter accounts and only 4 % have geo location accounts like Foursquare.  That’s some pretty big numbers for Facebook! I personally like to goof around with Foursquare to get the badges, but as a business, I would for sure go with Facebook first, then pick one or at the most 2 other mediums that fit my brand and goals and work with them on a secondary level. But for sure go for Facebook first and foremost and do it well!

Note:  Visits to company websites are almost all down over a year ago and of course visits to Facebook sites are up compared to a year ago.  Another reason FB is the place to do your social Marketing.  But, like we’ve said before if you’re a new or newer brand the best way to get your Facebook marketing working is to use traditional media like TV, Radio, magazine, Newspaper, billboards to reach out to the masses and bring them to your FB page.

And we’ll leave you with one last fact Facebook fact from Jack Neff- 117 Brands already have at least a MILLION fans! with 40 on pace to join the million mark this year!! Wowza!

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Today’s Social Media Update of Variousness…

First off, I’d like to say that a successful social media advertising campaign would benefit greatly by using traditional media-be it Radio, TV, Newspapers or Billboards (where legal).  And I dont just say that because I work at a radio station.  Just imagine how many more people will come to your blog, twitter or Facebook page if they were hearing or seeing it advertised somewhere else. Me, personally I would love to have an outside source of advertising for my own blogs. Yes, my SEO is getting better and yes more and more people are coming to my sites, but it’s a slow process.  Buy some traditional media and watch your social media number soar, but please make sure you buy enough of it to work, have the correct creative for your ads, they match the place they run on. AND include your “Call to Action!!” 

And check these nice radio listening numbers out that I didn’t make up:

On a typical Day, of people ages 12+
71% listened to over the air local radio
24% Visited Facebook
9%  Used Twitter
10% Visited Youtube
Sources: comScore Inc Ratings for March 2011:RADAR 108, March 2011, persons 12+, 24 hours.
 

Some up to date as of today things going on with Social Media:

Foursquare & Twitter:   Mashable lets us know that foursquare just released version 3.3 for iPhone. I don’t have it yet, so can’t tell you if it’s any different.  All I really want Foursquare to do is not let people who have never been somewhere be the mayor of that place! Yeah you Sara. She is the may of Media Shop 808 which I own and work in and she has never ever been in my area.  i tell you I will get my mayorship back before the end of the Summer! Mashable also wants to let us know that Jerry Seinfeld sent out his first tweet today. I don’t really care much, but I do find it interesting that Rihanna just passed up Lady GaGa as the Gal with the most fans on Twitter.  I bet GaGa does some sort of outrageous stunt this weekend to get her numbers back up to number 1!  and last bit about foursquare-they will soon offer deals with LivingSocial, Gilt and they are in talks with Groupon.  Me personally I dont much care, I’m trying not to use my credit card. So, until they get a groupon card similar to the iTunes Cards, I wont be using the 50% off offers. By using my credit card on anything, it ends up costing me way more than saving 50% on it today.

Google+s Speed of Adoption is quite quick. It’s expected to reach 20 million by the end of the weekend and so far most of the users are of the male gender. Ladies-might be a good place to meet some men.

Pandora is set to unleash its new site powered by HTLM5

LinkedIn has passed MySpace for US visitors, becoming the #2 Social Network with twitter not too far behind. Note to Myspace-even after you lost a bunch of your supporters, when you changed the way it looked you lost the rest of us-way too confusing and too much white space. I’m a color person myself.  And last thing for MySpace-it was my favorite social network and I still enjoy it sometimes to find and talk to bands, but get those crazy, blurry Girls out of there, they aren’t my friends, I never said they could be my friends, they aren’t real, and every time i go on your site, they pretend to say “Hi” to me..when all they are doing is trying to hack into one of my email accounts. Get rid of them. TU

And lastly, Look out for Spotify-Be the first on your block or in your office to be on the US version of this UK site. They claim you need to be invited to the site for their US beta version if you have a high Klout score, but after a bit of googlizing, I found them easily at spotify.com and requested and invite. I’ll let you know if I get invited.  If I do, I hear they have millions upon millions of songs from around the world and supposedly they are all free. We’ll see. Until next time, you can find me this weekend on my phone via voice or text:  808 479-9928  24/7.. I usually don’t sleep much on the weekends..well a bit during the day..LOL

Hey-Watcha’ Doing on Facebook at Work?

Today’s information comes from a message I received on Facebook earlier today from a friend of mine named Charles.  He asked “why was I on Facebook” instead of out selling.  I know he asked Jokingly-but there are many out there who still think that it is inappropriate to be on Facebook at work. Which leads me to today’s subject which is:  “Know How your clients communicate best and what’s the best way to reach them quickly?”

14 months ago, I tried to reach a client of mine quickly-not to do advertising, but to offer her a quick, easy job, it was something I know she would want to hear about!  So, I emailed her, then I emailed her again, then a 3rd time I called and emailed her.  No response each time.  So, I had remembered her posting a lot on Facebook, thus I went there, said “Hi, What are you doing today?”  and within 2 minutes I received a response back and went on to give her the pertinent information for her to get some pretty easy $$ from a quick job.  After this, I went on to ask her why she hadn’t responded to any of my emails. She said she rarely if ever checks it. It’s just something she has in case she needs it to fill our forms or buy something on-line.  ME-I check email every half hour or so all day and night unless I’m in a meeting or in a class.  Was I shocked! but it woke me up to the fact that many out there use Facebook, Twitter, or Foursquare for their communication needs.

It took me almost a week to get in touch with her, but now knowing how to reach her quickly, I can get her to respond within minutes.  I take many daily brain notes on how my clients like to be contacted.   I can go on with examples all day..Here’s just a quick run down of my family, it just shows a quick unabated research project on the diversity of communicating in June 2011. Hey, the way things are moving so fast, in a month or two this could all be way out of date!

Sister:  Doesnt ever answer the phone and if she does you need to listen to 2-3 minutes of some stupid pop song before she answers.  Doesnt respond to Email either.  Does Respond to Texting-Quickly and immediately.   Just reads Facebook, never posts, but does change her picture pretty often.

Stepsister:  Email.  I never see her posts on facebook..ever.

Dad:  Never ever answers the cell phone-but does return calls pretty quickly.  Gets confused between the difference between texts and the emails. Thus, Texting is best. Is on Facebook, but doesn’t understand why “all these people want to be his friend”  thus he never says yes to them unless they are really good friends or family members.

Mom:  Phone.  Yea!  I still like to talk on the phone, not too many out there left who use their phone to talk on.  She almost always answers or calls back pretty quickly. Do not text her, she still thinks that having a cell phone off saves money even if you aren’t using it. Thus, she never EVER has it on. Her cell phone is in case of emergency..like getting stuck in the car in the snow.  Doesn’t use it for anything else.  Second way to get a hold of her is snail mail and never with email.

Stepmom:  Email period!  She loves Apple and always has her I Pad, I phone or Macbook handy ready to email.

Daughter:  Texting only.  You can email her, she will read them, but texts back. You can text her and she’ll text back only when she wants to or needs something. Phone-rarely answers. Facebook-Oh we are not friends on there. not Cool.

Just a couple other friends to have a bit more fun on this subject and to show you it’s not just phone, text and Facebook that you will find people fastest: (You may want to take brain notes on your clients/friends/family members too or you can write them all out.  You’ll be amazed at what you find out!  and how easy it is to find them once you know where they hang and what they prefer!!!!!

Friend Bill:  @DadBillC on Twitter.  Bill is the first of my friends to be the most and easily accessable on Twitter first and foremost.  He went straight from phone to Twitter. Skipped Facebook and email all together. But,  I can get him in less than 5 minutes on twitter unless he’s sleeping.

co-worker Brandi:  foursquare.  I can actually shout down the hall to get her the quickest. But If I need to get a hold of her, I just go on to foursquare, do a check in with a fun note next to it and there she is!

Friend Ed:  He rarely answers the phone, rarely returns an email. But, Always within 10 minutes gets back to me on Facebook

Find out where your clients are and what they are using, it will make your day so much easier when you need to find them.  Make a list on paper, in your phone or just mentally.

My future prediction for the day:  Facebook will continue to grow to be the number one place you can find someone where you live, in another state or another country. It will be the fastest overall.  But the key is to find our where your clients are and what they use the most of, me-I still like the phone-but actually prefer my land line at work the best, somehow i feel more connected with the cords and lines and all that. weird, but fastest way to get me would be on my work email or my gmail, then my hotmail, then twitter, on my blog, one of my websites,  then foursquare, then Twitter… oh man oh man..just call me at 808 479-9928 or shout my name down the street.  And I bet when I write this similar subject on my blog next year or next month, it will be a lot different.  “Got to keep up to keep up.” Aloha for today! You can find me at:  alohabros@gmail.com  @scottmackenzie3 on twitter            At  foursquare/Scott Mackenzie  scott.mackenzie@coxradio.com        Facebook/Scott Mackenzie in Hawaii or on Oahu will get you to me.    (808) 275-1106-0r-(808) 479-9928   Snail mail:  Scott Mackenzie 900 Fort Street 7th Floor Honolulu, Hawaii 96813  Scott Mackenzie 1403 Makiki Street B301 Honolulu, Hawaii 96814  click on my QR Code    or text me 24/7 at 808-479-9928

Some funInformation from Tom Asacker’s Newsletter from 6/6/11:

19-year-old Autumn Braden of Michigan put her “adorable”2-year-old cousin up for sale on eBay for $1,000. When police showed up, Braden said, “All I was trying to do was see how eBay worked.”

In 1989, there were 1.8 million email accounts. Today, there are more than 3 billion. Over 100 trillion emails were sent in 2010.

Facebook could be worth as much as $100 billion when it eventually goes public, making it larger than tech rivals Amazon and Cisco. That’s twice the value analysts calculated from the price Goldman Sachs paid last year for a share of the company. Facebook expects to make over $2 billion in earnings this year.

And the Many ways to reach Tom: (try to figure out the fastest way to get a hold of him..LOL)

Tom’s new book: http://www.opportunityscreams.com

Some interesting reviews: http://amzn.to/gpI7iX

Tom’s home page: http://www.acleareye.com

About Tom: http://www.acleareye.com/about

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Tom on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tomasacker

Note: in case you were wondering:  When I answered Charles’ question about “Why I was on Facebook instead of out selling advertising”, I wrote back to him “I’m looking for some of my clients”   Have a Great Week!!

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