The song that makes you want to scream until whole world cracks down in the middle 
Have a camera and fly and grow richer. The part-time photographer from Malaysia, Jimmy Ong travels Malaysia and Southeast Asia region chasing wedding trains and the same time filling his piggy bank by doing what he loves; taking pictures. Listen to his interview with presenters from BFM 89.9, The Business Station Radio from Malaysia.
Everyone knows about social media. It’s free. It’s easy to register without too much hassle like providing your credit card number, social security or information number and other things that you need to prove as a real human. Well, put aside this security question or false identity that might swing your judgement later cause social media marketing is just simply a advertisement or marketing tools that contribute a lot of benefit if we use it wisely to attract consumer attention and kick back old fashioned of viral marketing.
Here are some of the latest usage statistics on social media use that will make a business take notice:
1) 68% of small businesses will increase their social networking marketing efforts in the next year
2) 56% of Twitter users say they use the micro blogging site for business or work related purposes
3) Over 40% of people have become ‘friends’ with or ‘like’ a brand/company on Facebook or MySpace
4) 20% of tweets are about business products
5) 46% of Facebook users say they would talk about or recommend a product on Facebook
6) 44% of Twitter users have recommended a product
7) Social media played a major role in holiday shopping – 28% of shoppers say social media has influenced their purchases.
Just from the Facebook, there are many statistics that everyone should know about.
1) More than 400 million active users
2) 50% of active users log on to Facebook in any given day
3) Average user has 130 friends
4) People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook
5) There are over 160 million pages, groups and events that people interact with
6) Average user is connected to 60 pages, groups and events
7) Average user creates 70 pieces of content each month
Males and females almost equally use social sites (47% vs. 53%)
9) 61% of Facebook users are middle aged or older, with the average age being 37
10) 18- to 24-year-olds don’t dominate any particular social networking site; they’re spread out all over
11) More than 25 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month
Interesting isn’t ?
* Thanks to Daer Glista – http://www.articlesbase.com/authors/daer-glista/572989
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I've said eartlier that I'll be going for a long break for some project but while browsing around I stumble upon a good articles taken from The Star Newspaper from Malaysia and I thought it might be a worth reading ( I guess?)... Just my 2 cents :-)
