As the number
of internet users on a global scale rises to 2 billion, Waseem Saddique
Marketing, a Birmingham based marketing consultancy, announces a record number
of businesses are turning to Social Media to enhance their internet marketing
campaigns.
According to
a report released by Forbes, a record 81% of businesses worldwide are now
utilising Social Media as a form of online marketing. Due to this surge, Waseem
Saddique Marketing has revealed growing interest in the use of its marketing
consultancy services.
Waseem
Saddique, CEO of Waseem Saddique Marketing Services, commented: “Businesses are
becoming far more aware of the impact of Social Media platforms such as
Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and LinkedIn and they are looking to maximise the
potential of such sites to increase customer bases and become more interactive
with their consumers.”
Many of the
businesses represented by the 81% figure now employ staff dedicated solely to
providing that social savvy solution. Waseem Saddique Marketing is pleased to
report increased use of their service as businesses make contact in need of
advice and guidance on using Social Media to enhance online marketing
strategies.
Social Media
has become a widespread phenomenon, with a distinctive allure and the
capability to reach out to audiences through laptops, smartphones, tablets and
a whole host of other means. Basically, there is no escaping the reality that
it has become an integral part of society that many cannot do without.
This latest
announcement from Waseem Saddique Marketing Services comes as no surprise as
businesses do battle to keep themselves ahead of competitors and in the sight
of target audiences.
Waseem
Saddique states: “Many businesses have turned to Social Media because of the
reach it provides and the simplicity of being able to interact with potential
customers. Social Media sites also allow for fresh and innovative approaches to
online marketing campaigns.”
Further
factors behind businesses increasing their use of Social Media have been
revealed by SocialStatistics.com
One in every
nine people on Earth is on Facebook (this number is calculated by dividing the
planet’s 6.94 billion people by Facebook’s 750 million users).
People spend
700 billion minutes per month on Facebook.
Each Facebook
user spends, on average, 15 hours and 33 minutes a month on the site.
More than 250
million people access Facebook through their mobile devices.
More than 2.5
million websites have integrated with Facebook.
30 billion
pieces of content are shared on Facebook each month.
300,000 users
helped translate Facebook into 70 languages.
People on
Facebook install 20 million “Apps” every day.
YouTube has
490 million unique users who visit every month (correct as of February 2011).
YouTube
generates 92 billion page views per month (these YouTube stats don’t include
videos viewed on phones and embedded in websites).
Users on
YouTube spend a total of 2.9 billion hours per month (326,294 years).
Wikipedia
hosts 17 million articles.
Wikipedia
authors total over 91,000 contributors.
People upload
3,000 images to Flickr (the photo sharing social media site) every minute.
Flickr hosts
over 5 billion images.
190 million
average Tweets per day occur on Twitter (correct as of May 2011).
Twitter is
handling 1.6 billion queries per day.
Twitter is
adding nearly 500,000 users a day.
Google+ has
more than 25 million users.
Google+ was
the fastest social network to reach 10 million users at 16 days (Twitter took
780 days and Facebook 852 days).
