26 Promising Social Media Stats for Small Businesses
Is your small business “all in” with social media? New research shows incredible opportunity for small businesses.
Keep reading to discover why social media is changing small business for the better.
Six months ago, I highlighted many benefits of social media for small business, but several new research articles add urgency to this message.
Swiftly Changing Landscape
Social media marketing is a rapidly changing environment, as we all know. But the good news is that your customers are embracing social media as a normal part of their lives. Even the over-50 population is adapting at staggering rates. 
12 Social Media Tools Recommended by the Pros
Are you struggling to make social media work for your business? Sometimes a few well-chosen tools are all you need to get your social media marketing working for you.
In our recent Social Media Success Summit, there were presentations that covered all the key topics you need to make your social media marketing easy. In this article, I’ll share 12 of those tools that were recommended by the pros.
Tools to Refine Your Visibility and Engagement
Here are three tools recommended by Mari Smith during her first presentation on increasing your visibility and engagement on Facebook.
New Social Media Research: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What’s New This Week?
New Infographics Show Mobile Social Universe: JESS3 Labs published its new Geosocial Universe infographics. Click through this first chart below; there are more noteworthy social media stats.
"Facebook now tops 629 million registered users with almost 250 million people accessing the site via mobile."
Social Media Spending Habits Rise, New Research Reveals
Are you wondering how other businesses are allocating their social media activities in relation to other marketing tasks?
This article reveals the findings of a few new research studies. What they found might surprise you.
Small Business Focusing Big Time on Social Media and Blogging
Small businesses are spending three times more on social media and blogs than larger businesses.
In HubSpot’s 2011 State of Inbound Marketing Report, researchers discovered that small businesses plan to spend 29% of their lead generation budget on social media and blogs. Asked the same question, medium to large businesses only plan to spend 9% on the same categories.
Small Businesses Benefit Most From Social Media, Study Reveals
Do you wonder if you have what it takes to compete in the social media marketplace? Who, after all, has the time or the budget to mimic Disney or Starbucks? Certainly not a small business!
Well, maybe that’s the wrong set of questions.
In fact, the 2011 Social Media Marketing Industry Report has some good news for small business marketers. Small business owners are seeing the greatest results from social media marketing.
2011 Social Media Marketing Industry Report
Have you pondered any of these questions? “Where are my peers targeting their social media efforts? What benefits are they achieving? Where will they focus their future activities?”
Look no further.
All of the answers (and more) are right here in this free third-annual social media report.
Watch the above video for a quick summary.
