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Using Data to Rank 2011′s Top 20 Internet, Social Media and SEO blogs
For three years now, the folks at Cision have ranked the Top 100 blogs in our category by looking at specific data points. These data points are designed to reward actual site performance versus popularity or “Internet fame.” Last year, Ignite Social Media was ranked second, only to the blog powerhouse Mashable. This year, Cision [...]
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2011 Social Network Analysis Report – Geographic – Demographic and Traffic Data Revealed
2010 was a rocky year in the social network space and many sites closed their doors including Propeller.com and Team Sugar, to name a few. Quite a few others continued their decline into yesterday’s news as we see more social network users consolidating their social profiles. Undoubtedly, Facebook’s continued growth worldwide has led to this [...]
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Ignite Social Media named one of “World’s Top Social Media Marketing Firms for 2011″
The International Business Times came out with their list of 5 agencies they describe as “The World’s Top Social Media Marketing Firms for 2011” and Ignite Social Media is one of the five selected. We’re honestly not sure of the criteria, but we’re flattered to be included in such a small group of firms on [...]
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26 Facebook Fan Page Examples in Detail
Since the conclusion of our previous series “26 Social Media Marketing Examples in Detail” and with the start of the new year, I have been inspired yet again to evaluate what other brands are doing in the space. However, instead of covering what a brand is doing across multiple platforms, in this series we will uncover specifically what the top brands on Facebook are doing on their pages to engage with their fans.
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Social Media Stats
Companies need to rely on social media statistics to help them make better business decisions. eMarketer and Forrester are still some of the largest publishers of curated social media stats in 2011. Here at Ignite Social Media, we have a collection of posts that aim to assist business owners like yourself. Social media is a global trend that is here to stay.
Whether you are looking for small business social media statistics, corporate social media stats and usage, or even global facts and trends– we’ve got you covered.
Some of our top articles can be seen below:
Check-In Statistics
Yearly Social Demographic / Geographic Study
The Top Brands on Facebook
Global Trends of Facebook
Here at Ignite, we strongly recommend users do their homework before jumping into the social sphere. Do your research and approach things systematically. Identify your customers and understand their Internet habits. Are they more likely to be on LinkedIn, or does your audience still use MySpace?
It’s important to answer these questions with data. We hope you find this section of the website helpful to determine what social media statistics are important to you. If you have any questions about how Ignite Social Media can help you in your strategic business endeavors, please contact us today.
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Misi McClelland | August 08, 2011 | View Comments
In spring, Jim Tobin wrote an interesting post about social media campaigns outperforming banner ads. With a nod to the irony of it all, I wanted to apply my experience in media buying to test the effectiveness of promoting that blog post across three different social media ad buying opportunities as well as Google’s more [...]
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Data Reveals Insights Into The Effectiveness of Post Automation
Guest | July 05, 2011 | View Comments
This is a guest post by Tristan Handy. Tristan is the Director of Operations for Argyle Social, a social media marketing software and dashboard that helps businesses create real returns from the social channel. Find him on Twitter @jthandy. Post automation has been a hotly debated topic within the social media community since RSS posting [...]
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Case Study: Social Media Campaigns Outperform Banner Ads for Driving Quality Web Traffic
Jim Tobin | April 12, 2011 | View Comments
Large brands like the ones we work with typically include social media marketing as part of a much larger marketing mix, as they should. They frequently run TV ads, banner ads, PR programs, pay-per-click, print ads, out of home, event marketing and more. As budgets for social media marketing increase, one valid exercise in determining [...]
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2011 Social Network Analysis Report – Geographic – Demographic and Traffic Data Revealed
Brian Chappell | April 06, 2011 | View Comments
2010 was a rocky year in the social network space and many sites closed their doors including Propeller.com and Team Sugar, to name a few. Quite a few others continued their decline into yesterday’s news as we see more social network users consolidating their social profiles. Undoubtedly, Facebook’s continued growth worldwide has led to this [...]
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Foursquare to Facebook Places: Insight into Check-ins
Lisa Braziel | February 03, 2011 | View Comments
Many are claiming this year as the year of “social mobile”. Even Facebook’s CTO announced that one of the primary objectives for Facebook this year is mobile, a statement that is backed with increased emphasis on its geolocation tool – Facebook Places. This said, social media marketers should get up to speed on the adoption [...]
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Social Media Engagement of the Top 100 Global Brands
Lisa Braziel | November 09, 2010 | View Comments
In preparing a social media strategy last week, I stumbled on the Engagement DB report prepared by Wetpaint and Altimeter group in 2009, and I must say, the report still has nuggets of insights that are helpful ammunition for most social media marketers.
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5 Elements of a Retweet Machine: Case Study of Mashable
Guest | August 31, 2010 | View Comments
When Mashable posts, people listen. And not only do they listen, but they echo, in the form of Retweets. We recently experienced the awesome Mashable Retweet machine on an article covering RowFeeder’s new social media monitoring in Excel. The article saw 1,365 Re-Tweets in total. On top of that, we saw a 20% conversation to sign-ups on visits from the article. We were amazed watching the Retweet machine in action and decided to take a look at the data and how we might apply Mashable’s practices to our content and social media efforts.
We found 5 primary things that make Mashable the RT love generator that it is…
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2010 Social Network Analysis Report – Geographic – Demographic and Traffic Data Revealed
Brian Chappell | June 02, 2010 | View Comments
Its that time of the year again and I thought our readers would be curious how the different social networks have progressed over the last 2 years since we started analyzing the various social networks from around the world.
