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Jun

20

2010

Traffic increases by 50% to blogs with Facebook “like”

Posted by Jason Springer | Comments : Comments Off

Category : Facebook, Social Media, blogs

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Here’s another measurable that shows how important integration between your social media efforts is:

TypePad users who installed the Facebook “Like” widgets on their blog sidebars have experienced a 50% increase in referral traffic from Facebook collectively, TypePad revealed in a blog post.Facebook unveiled the “Like” feature at its F8 Developer Conference in late April. Readers can click the “Like” button on an article to share it with their Facebook friends without leaving a publisher’s website.

Here is a good visual for the increase:

If writing a blog is similar to having a conversation with your readers, publicizing your content on social media would be like speaking into a megaphone. A much larger audience is able to hear what you are saying and isn’t that the point of you talking in the first place?

Jun

17

2010

Are you integrating your email marketing and social media efforts?

Posted by Jason Springer | Comments : Comments Off

Category : Email, Social Media

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If your answer to that headline is no, you may want to take a look at this survey from AWeber Communications:

  • Email marketing continues to bring significant value to businesses with more than 82 percent of respondents planning to increase their email marketing efforts over the next year.
  • The more social media grows in popularity among consumers, the more attention it will receive from marketers. Almost 70 percent of small business marketers are employing some sort of social media tactics and a majority (77 percent) indicate that integrating email marketing and social media is either “very important” or “moderately important.”
  • The most popular tactics at the moment involve spreading content onto additional mediums such as sharing email newsletters on Twitter (36 percent) and delivering blog posts via email (35 percent).
  • 54 percent of respondents indicate they intend to use Facebook as a tool to help build their email lists
  • Nearly 20 percent of respondents indicate that integrating email marketing and social media increased customer loyalty
  • Almost 12 times as many respondents said that email marketing ROI is more easily measured than social media ROI (61.46 percent versus 5.28 percent)

You can see more of the survey and what they had to say here. If you’re not integrating your efforts across all of your mediums for communicating with your audience, what are you waiting for?

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