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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Using the Forrester Social Technographics Ladder, understand how your target audience (as defined by gender, age, and geography) uses social media. On Monday and Tuesday, a huge sampling of Flintsters learned about social media strategy from Jason Baer – a social media consultant and founder of Convince & Convert.

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Best Social Media Stats, Facts and Marketing Research of 2010

Webbiquity

40% of Facebook users said their motivation for liking a brand there was “to receive discounts and promotions,&# 36% said it was to get a freebie (sample, coupon, trial etc.), and 30% said it was to get updates on upcoming sales. Email open rates continue to decline from 14% in the second half of 2007 to just 11.2% billion by 2014.

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The State of the Blogosphere 2010

Online Marketing Institute

Forrester estimates that 70% of social media users are simply consumers, those who search and consume the content available today…but never say anything in public about it. sol_dier your title is misleading, your sample group is skewed to the Western hemisphere and specifically N.America. Thank you for the reminder.

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