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 :)