Friday Facts: How Much Time You Should be Spending on Social Media

How much time do you spend on your brand's social media creating posts, images, etc., engaging users, sharing content and more? How much time do you spend creating blog posts? How about how much time are you spending dedicated to researching and content strategy as well as content curation?

Each brand is different, but if you're a full time employee focused on Social Media, then Mark Smiciklas, digital strategist at intersectionconsulting.com, has a useful infographic for you showing how your 40-hour work week could be broken up. If you aren't spending 40 hours on social media, reduce accordingly.

I came across this nifty infographic on Pinterest. Check it out here: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/147422587779933692/

Friday Facts: The Shift to Visual Social Media

I came across this infographic on Pinterest last week and thought it would be great to share. I didn't really give much thought to how Social Media has become much more visual with pictures and videos instead of just text until I saw this infographic.

The pin is described with "Social media is very visual these days. How did this happen? Check out this great infographic. (it's visual!) Social Media Trends: Visual is the new Black."

Check it out here: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/58054282673761087/

The infographic provides a lot of useful, little known facts, like Instagram gets more posts than Twitter a day and that Pinterest is the fourth largest traffic driver world wide.

What facts did you find interesting?

Friday Facts: 7 P's Of Social Media Marketing That Drive Results

This nifty infographic, which you can see the full version on Pinterest here, provides you with information in an awesome graphical form that was originally found in this Forbes article.

The article talks not only about the 7 P's of social media marketing, but also address the three most important parts to branding with social media which are: Consistency, Persistence and Restraint.

Keeping all of that in mind, the infographic provides a concise summary of the article for quick reference, but the article itself is good to read as well, especially if you are new to branding or social media or both.

WIth the help of this infographic and article, I suppose you do have a step up on going from zero to hero with social media.

Enjoy!

Friday Facts: 10 Surprising Social Media Facts

In looking through Pinterest the other night, I came across this pin and had to check it out.  It contained a very nice infographic with 10 facts about social media that I -definitely- didn't know and I think many of my readers will find this interesting.

Some of the facts include:

• Did you know there are specific days of the week to Pin certain things on Pinterest?  You can find out what you're supposed to Pin when on the infographic.
• Did you know Friday seems to be the best day for engagement on Facebook?  (Maybe it's because it's the end of the work week and people are surfing Facebook...)
• Do you know how many interactions per post you should strive for?  That information is also available on the infographic.

Learn about these three things as well as the seven other facts by clicking on the links below.

Source: http://www.business2community.com/infographics/10-surprising-social-media-facts-infographic-0946278#!birBLT

Pin It Here: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/492862752943671555/

(Note, I linked to the Pin I found it on.  Please re-Pin from there if you're going to Pin.)

Friday Facts: Fun Infographic on What it Takes to Be a Social Media Strategist

Mashable put together a really neat infographic on what it takes to be a social media strategist.  While the article is almost 4 years old and it would be interesting to see how some of the statistics have changed since it was published, a lot of the tips in there are invaluable to both new, and old, social media marketers alike.

For example:

1. Be ready to wear many hats.
2. Be able to lead.
3. Be willing, and able, to take risks.

But that's just a quick paraphrase.  Check out the full article and infographic here: http://mashable.com/2011/09/24/social-media-career/

Friday Facts: Social Media Stats

Earlier in the year I linked to a slideshow that had a bunch of useful statistics on Social Media.  Today, I found a neat infographic on Ashley Mcnamara's website, titled "Social Media Marketing - 8 Things to Ponder."

Check it out here:  http://www.ashleymcnamara.com/2013/12/13/social-media-marketing-8-things-to-ponder/

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