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I founded Core Business Solutions with the goal of helping business owners improve operating results, add value, and recapture the energy and passion that was present when the business was new. We also have the expertise to assist start-up companies create the foundational structure needed to provide the best opportunity for the business to grow and prosper in uncertain economic times. Our goal is to help the business entrepreneur/owner, through mentoring and coaching, develop or enhance managerial skills while providing that independent and objective advice and expertise usually provided by a board of directors.
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Saturday, April 16, 2011

The Social Media Revolution

Not sure if you should join in the Social Media Revolution to promote your business?
Here's a link to a very revealing video.

http://socialnomics.net/?p=1117

Here are just a few stats from this video which is almost a year old:

1.Over 50% of the world’s population is under 30-years-old


2.96% of them have joined a social network

3.Facebook tops Google for weekly traffic in the U.S.

4.Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web

5.1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media

6.Years to Reach 50 millions Users: Radio (38 Years), TV (13 Years), Internet (4 Years), iPod (3 Years)…

7.Facebook added over 200 million users in less than a year

8.iPhone applications hit 1 billion in 9 months.

9.We don’t have a choice on whether we DO social media, the question is how well we DO it.”

10.If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 3rd largest ahead of the United States and only behind China and India

11.There are over 200,000,000 Blogs


12.Because of the speed in which social media enables communication, word of mouth now becomes world of mouth

13.If you were paid a $1 for every time an article was posted on Wikipedia you would earn $1,712.32 per hour

14.25% of search results for the World’s Top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content

15.34% of bloggers post opinions about products & brands

16.Do you like what they are saying about your brand? You better.

17.People care more about how their social graph ranks products and services than how Google ranks them

18.78% of consumers trust peer recommendations

19.Only 14% trust advertisements

20.Only 18% of traditional TV campaigns generate a positive ROI

21.90% of people that can TiVo ads do

22.Kindle eBooks Outsold Paper Books on Christmas

Still think you should not be using Social Media to promote your business?
 
THINK AGAIN.....

In about 2-3 weeks or so I'll review another subject designed to provide business owners with information they can use to help them work "on" their business.


Until Next Time : Live Simply, Speak Kindly, Care Deeply, Love Generously and Live In The Moment

All My Best,

Walt Morey

Core Business Solutions

Executive Business Advisor- Accredited by the Institute for Independent Business

http://www.corebizsolution.com/

Ph: 727-647-8242


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