Archive for June 12th, 2011

Why is Drumming Good For Us?

People all around the world have experienced the therapeutic benefits of drumming. Even in some recent years, Scientific Experts have backed up hard evidence that supports this.

Drumming can achieve many things for you. Including physical and mental relaxation, relief from stress, relief of depression, clarity of thought, and learning to work as an efficient team. It is fun, you can be creative as you want and often hit as hard as you want too.

It has also proven to help cancer patients, people with parkinson s disease, Alzheimer s, people with drug addiction, people with learning difficulties, people with physical disabilities, older people, prisoners, school children and corporate decision makers.

If you want to know more and get some drum lessons visit TEACH ME 2 at http://teachme2.co.za

This is Jared Talbot signing off :) Drum away today !!

Social Media

Mostly everyone knows that Social Media is important to business these . The thing is that even though most business owners know this, they still don’t know quite how to use it to further their business.

This month the Entrepreneur Magazine, published that if entrepreneurs do not get on the social media bandwagon soon, within the next three to five years, they will not be able to survive.

I mean most companies have a twitter account. Most companies have blogs and websites, they have Facebook pages and are on many other Social Media sites.

Here are some interesting stats -

There are approximately 6.7 billion people on the planet

There are 700 million active registered Facebook users

1 in 9.5 people on the PLANET have a Facebook account
(61% of the users are older than 38)

Over 250 million Twitter accounts
(64% of Twitter users are over 39)

1.8 billion INTERNET CONNECTED computers worldwide

5.6 billion mobile phone accounts in use worldwide

96% open rate for text messages

Over 29.6 million small businesses in the US
(44.6 million if you include work-at-home businesses)

There are over 300 million small businesses worldwide

Forrester Research reports:

“Social Media Marketing spending is expected
to increase from $716 MILLION to $3.1 BILLION
by 2014 – that’s 34% per year.”

Worldwide, there’s a MAJOR shortage of
social media marketing consultants and
professionals.

According to Ad-Ology, 46% of small business
owners don’t have a web site…

… 60% of Small Businesses are spending
the same amount on advertising as they did in 2008

… 26% plan to spend more
… and 69% want to spend it on

YOU GUESSED IT:

- SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING
- MOBILE MARKETING

This is Jared Talbot signing off, Have a great Sunday :)

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