26 social media secrets Skittles knows | Biznology

By Rob Petersen. Filed in Social Media Marketing? | ??
Tags: Business, Facebook, social media, social media marketing, social networking

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The Skittles website attracted 23,000 U.S. unique visitors in March 2012, while the Skittles Facebook Page?attracted 320,000 visitors?14 times as many. That?s far from typical?very few companies have more traffic to any of their social media venues than to their old-fashioned website. But does Skittles have something to teach the rest of us??Are Facebook brand pages the new brand websites??

Here are 26 social media secrets Skittles knows:

1. 1 out of every 5 minutes people spend online are spent on social networks in 2012; up from 1 out of every 20 minutes in 2007
2. People spend more time social networking on Facebook than doing anything on sites owned by Google, Microsoft or Yahoo, the Web?s three most heavily-trafficked properties
3. 14.6% of Internet users? time is captured by Facebook compared to a combined 2% for all other social networking sites
4. 423 minutes are spent each month by Facebook users social networking
5. 47% of people are ?somewhat likely? to purchase from a brand that they follow or ?Like?
6. 40% of the time people spend on Facebook is spent on ?News Feed??once you like a brand, their update appear on your ?News Feed?
7. 80% of US social network users prefer to connect with brands through Facebook
8. Facebook Fans are 28% more likely to continue using a brand than users who are non-fans
9. Fans are 41% more likely to recommend a brand to their friends than users who are non-fans
10. $71.84 is the average additional amount Facebook Fans of a brand spend each year versus non-fans
11. 20% to 40% more spending occurs through people who follow a brand through their social networks
12. 40% of consumers prefer social log-ins over creating a new/guest account
13. 15.2% of all U.S. display ads across the web were socially-enabled, up from 8.2% in November 2011
14. 40.9% of CPG Food ads?and 26.9% of?Grocery?ads are socially enabled
15. 10X more people ?engage? (like, share, comment, post, check-in) with a brand on Facebook than click through on an online display ad
16. 31% of traffic to a brand website comes from brand social network sites
17. Top 1000 brands on Facebook are able to deliver an actual amplification of 81x if their efforts are maximized
18. 90% of online consumers trust recommendations from people they know
19. 70% trust unknown users, 27% trust experts
20. 14% trust advertising
21. 8% trust celebrities
22. 75% of people don?t believe that companies tell the truth in advertisements
23. 70% of bloggers are organically talking about brands on their blog
24. 20% of Twitter updates are either requests for product info, or responses to these requests
25. 20% of consumers use social media to get a customer service response
26. 21% of social media users are willing to spend more for great customer service versus only 13% for the general population

These stats are sourced from comScore, WOMMA, HubSpot and Amercian Express. These are great companies BarnRaisers is grateful to be associated with and we appreciate the information they make available to help business make smarter decisions.

Do you think Facebook brand pages are the new brand websites?

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