Social Media Stats for the Business Professional

Some interesting social media stats for the business professional that I pulled from various online sources:

• Social Media Sites are officially more popular than porn sites.
• Blogger has over 200,000,000 Blogs.
• Youtube sees over 65,000 new videos a day.
• 150,000,000 the number of Youtube videos viewed per day.
• 73% of active online users have a read a blog.
• 45% have started their own blog.
• 39% subscribe to RSS feed.
• 57% have joined a Social Network
• 55% have uploaded videos
• 83% watch video clips
• 684,000,000 the number of visitors to Wikipedia in the last year
• 75,000 active contributors to Wikipedia
• 3,000,000 Tweets per day on Twitter
• 500,000 people join per day to facebook
• Dell, Jetblue, Southwest, Starbucks & others use Twitter to communicate and generate sales with customers.
• 36,000,000 Linkedin Members as of January
• 10,000,000 visited Twitter in February up 700:% from previous year.

Why should we care as business professionals?

Only 14% of people polled trust conventional advertisement, but 78% trust the recommendations of others.

34% polled post recommendations and thoughts on blogs about products or services they use.

36% think more postively about companies who have blogs

32% trust bloggers opinions on goods and services

If you’re a business professional reading these stats and your not participating in Social Media then your missing the future of the way business is done.

Randy

Sources: Time, University of Mccain, Forrester Research, Nielsen