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Best Social Media Stats, Facts and Marketing Research of 2010

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Email open rates continue to decline from 14% in the second half of 2007 to just 11.2% Study: Social Media Affects SMB Purchasing Decisions by HubSpot Blog. Younger buyers rely more heavily than their older counterparts on social media as key influence in SMB purchasing decisions–but not by all that much.

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Best Social Media and Digitial Marketing Research and Statistics of 2011, Part 1

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companies are currently using blogs for marketing purposes, up from 29% in 2009 and just 16% in 2007. Facebook was valued at $15 billion in 2007, but is expected to go public next year at a valuation of close to $100 billion. Social media advertising is still a relatively rare tactic among B2B vendors and in the SMB space.