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|Customer Testimonials
|I am a gardener who has worn your gloves for many years. I went through many other gloves and too many manicures to try and keep my hands clean before I came across your gloves and a Flower Show.I would get frustrated and take the other gloves off as I need to be able to feel what I am doing.I no longer need any other gloves ever than yours.My garden club also has purchased them as we took advantage of your Garden Club glove selling project.Your prices are better than any retail store.I also wash them in the regular washer and hang dry.
Coletta Candini
Added Sep 26, 2012
|The full suite coveralls are wonderful for keeping deer ticks off us when we do yard work.
paul bowlin
Added Jun 11, 2012
|Here it is simply put, if you want the best shoe/boot cover out there don't hesitate to purchase the SafeTrack High Traction Waterproof Shoe & Boot Covers. I personally have purchased and tried them all but these are the best and their cheaper than others too! You wont be dissatisfied. These shoe covers are safer too, they provide a grip surface under your foot. The ones I was buying before from another company were plastic like a garbage bag and walking down carpet stairs or the like was dangerous! Also its not uncommon for me to use the same pair multiple times, they are constructed very well and last a long time. Others claim to be water proof and they are if you don't walk with them on. As soon as they rip or tear say goodbye to waterproof. The Safetrack shoe and boot covers hold up very well in and on construction sites.
Ti Sutherland
(Lovett Inc.)
Added Mar 16, 2012
|We have been purchasing gloves from PalmFlex for years, but have found that IRONCLAD outperforms any other manufacturer. We have bought various types of Ironclad gloves for our workers that do indeed work in extreme cold temperatures and also hot weather, and they are so incredibly durable and comfortable for our employees. We will continue to buy IRONCLAD products from PalmFlex. Thank you so much for your excellent customer service!
Susan Felda
Added Dec 26, 2011
|I work at UPS, both as a driver and in the Warehouse. Over the years I have tried many different gloves. Far and away, the ATLAS line has always performed the best! Literally thousands of boxes a night go through my hands! Atlas holds up to the abuse. I have shopped around, and Palm Flex is the best I have found on price, and service. Don't waste your money on a lesser product! Do it right the first time with Atlas gloves through Palm Flex!
Added Nov 14, 2011
|I have been using Palmflex gloves for 3 years after I happened to see them in a gift shop. I LOVE these gloves and I have had all my friends and sisters try them. Like me, they use their Palmflex gloves all the time and are giving them as presents to their friends and family.
Wearing these gloves are like not having
gloves on your hands at all. I've used other gloves from cotton to leather, but these gloves are the best! I can plant all my flowers, get a hold of a weed or take out a small rock without getting any dirt on my hands or under my nails. I don't get scratched when pulling out rose shoots. I wear them constantly when I do any outside work.
Can I suggest that you introduce these gloves on a trial basis to nurseries. I am sure their gardeners will favor the Plamflex gloves and would recommend them to their customers.
Thank you
Catherine Thompson
Added Sep 2, 2011
|I bought several pairs of the Atlas 370 gloves. I use them for gardening and love them like no other glove I\\\'ve ever used for this purpose. They fit well, which is saying something for a woman\\\'s glove and the covering on the palm and ends of the fingers saves my nails from being ruined. Besides the pair I use for myself, I gave gloves to my sister and my gardener friends. A size small will fit most women\\\'s hands because of the stretchability of the gloves. The gloves also come in a nice selection of colors so I chose the mango color so I wouldn\\\'t lose the gloves in the event I were to take the gloves off and lay them in them grass. What can I say....I love these gloves and they are cheap for the product. They will last you for years of gardening.
G Cass
Added Jun 14, 2011
|I bought one pair years ago at a garden center. I loved them so much that I started to purchase them in bulk and kept several pairs for myself and gave them away as gifts to all my fellow gardening relatives and friends. I am in the process of taking orders here at work and now have a huge order to place. Best garden glove ever!
Added Apr 8, 2011
|PalmFlex 370 gloves for gardening absolutely cannot be beat. They are also good work gloves for other projects - my husband and I both wear them. I ordered a dozen several years ago, but gave so many as gifts that I am ordering another dozen. I am so glad I found these gloves from PalmFlex even before they were being marketed for gardening. Thank you for a great product.
Theresa Hirsch
Added Jan 21, 2011
|Every imitation glove falls to pieces and never comes close to what you guys make, so keep makin em! If I ware out a pair, I pullem off and finish the job-thanking you for my hands being as kindly treated as they have been; protected from everything and anything. I'm a worker but you save so much of them my GF thanks you as well. you have never let me down. Thank You very much, Andy Sayen
Andy sayen
(Sayen's roofing and carpentry)
Added Jan 7, 2011


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104 Fascinating Social Media and Marketing Statistics for 2014 (and 2015)Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
Looking at marketing surveys and studies from the past year, a few trends are clear, among them that buyers are firmly (and increasingly) in control of the purchase cycle. They prefer searching to being found, and will often be close to their final decision point before talking to a salesperson.
In response, marketers are producing an increasing amount and variety of content to support all stages of the decision process. They're distributing and promoting this content through all channels in the web presence optimization (WPO) model, to maximize their opportunities to be "found" online when buyers are looking.
And although digital is taking an increasing share of marketing budgets, the move to online is paradoxically making some old-school tactics even more valuable.
What do buyers say is the most important signal of vendor credibility? What type of content is most effective? What do marketers rate as the single most valuable SEO tactic? What are the top barriers to adopting social business practices?
Find the answers to these questions and many others in more than 100 social and online marketing stats from 20+ different sources.
9 General Marketing Stats
1. People want to be in control of the content they receive:
- • 86% of people skip TV commercials.
- • 44% of direct mail is never opened.
- • 91% of people have unsubscribed from company emails they previously opted into.
2. 72% of marketers think branded content is more effective than advertising in a magazine; 69% say it is superior to direct mail and PR. (NewsCred)
3. Nearly half (46%) of people say a website's design is their number one criterion for determining the credibility of a company. (NewsCred)
4. 71% of companies planned to increase their digital marketing budgets this year, by an average of 27%. (Econsultancy)
5. 67 percent of marketers say increasing sales directly attributable to digital marketing campaigns is a top priority this year. (Forbes)
6. Internet advertising will make up 25% of the entire ad market in 2015. (Social Fresh)
7. Despite all the hype about online, 67% of B2B content marketers consider event marketing to be their most effective strategy. (Social Fresh)
8. Videos on landing pages increase conversions by 86%. (Social Fresh)
9. As one would suspect, Facebook is the most popular method for sharing interesting content. Surprisingly though, the fifth-most popular sharing method is offline (print) shares. (Heidi Cohen)
5 Online Demographics Stats
10. The Google+ platform has 67 percent male users. (Rocket Post)
11. There are 76 million millennials (born between 1981 and 2000) in the U.S. — 27% of the total population. (leaderswest Digital Marketing Journal)
12. 63% of millennials have at least a bachelors degree. (leaderswest Digital Marketing Journal)
13. 63% of millennials say they stay updated on brands through social networks; 51% say social opinions influence their purchase decisions; and 46% "count on social media" when buying online. (leaderswest Digital Marketing Journal)
14. 89% of 18-29 year-olds are active on social media, as are 43% of adults 65 and older. (Jeff Bullas)
13 Content Marketing Stats
15. B2B content matters. 57% of a typical purchase decision is made before a customer even talks to a supplier. (Corporate Executive Board)
16. By 2020, customers will manage 85 percent of their relationship with an enterprise without interacting with a human. (Target Marketing)
17. Not all content has to be original. 48% of marketers curate noteworthy content from third-party sources weekly (this post is an example). (Design & Promote)
18. 62% of companies outsource their content marketing. (Iconsive)
19. $118 billion was spend on content marketing last year. (NewsCred)
20. 70% of consumers say they prefer getting to know a company via articles rather than ads. (NewsCred)
21. 90% of organizations market with content. 86% of B2C marketers and 91% of B2B marketers use content marketing. (NewsCred)
22. Or maybe 93% of B2B marketers use content marketing. (Iconsive)
23. And yet…54% of brands don't have an onsite, dedicated content director. (NewsCred)
24. There are 27 million pieces of content shared each day. (NewsCred)
25. Companies will spend $135 billion on digital marketing collateral this year. (Social Fresh)
26. Customer testimonials have the highest effectiveness rating for content marketing at 89%. (Social Fresh)
27. 17% of marketers plan to increase efforts on SlideShare this year. (Forbes)
7 Blogging Stats
28. 34% of Fortune 500 companies now maintain active blogs – the largest share since 2008. (Forbes)
29. Each month, 329 million people read blogs. (NewsCred)
30. 37% of marketers say blogs are the most valuable content type for marketing. (NewsCred)
31. Companies that publish new blog posts 15+ times per month (3-4 posts per week) generate five times more traffic than companies that don't blog at all. (NewsCred)
32. 17% of marketers plan to increase blogging efforts this year. (Forbes)
33. Blogging increases web traffic by 55% for brands. (Rocket Post)
34. B2B companies that blog generate 67% more leads than those without blogs. (Social Fresh)
7 Visual and Video Marketing Stats
35. Pinterest grabs 41% of the ecommerce traffic compared to Facebook's 37%. Food is the top category of content on Pinterest with 57% of its user base sharing food-related content. (Rocket Post)
36. 16% of marketers plan to increase efforts on Pinterest this year. (Forbes)
37. The use of video content for marketing increased 73% this year; use of infographics grew 51%. (Digital Marketing Philippines)
38. Articles with images get 94% more views than those without. (NewsCred)
39. Posts with videos attract three times as many inbound links as plain text posts. (NewsCred)
40. 62% of marketers use video in their content marketing. (NewsCred)
41. Two-thirds of firms plan to increase spending on video marketing in the coming year. (Heidi Cohen)
5 SEO Stats
42. 81% of B2B purchase cycles start with web search, and 90% of buyers say when they are ready to buy, "they'll find you." (Earnest Agency)
43. More than half (53%) of marketers rank content creation as the single most effective SEO tactic. (NewsCred)
44. 57% of B2B marketers say SEO has the biggest impact on lead generation. (NewsCred)
45. Organic search leads have a 14.6% close rate, compared to 1.7% for outbound marketing leads. (NewsCred)
46. 33% of clicks from organic search results go to the top listing on Google. (Social Fresh)
15 Social Media Marketing Stats
47. 85% of B2B buyers believe companies should present information via social networks. (Iconsive)
48. And yet – only 20% of CMOs leverage social networks to engage with customers. (Marketing Land)
49. Marketers will spend $8.3 billion on social media advertising in 2015. (NewsCred)
50. "Interesting content" is one of the top three reasons people follow brands on social media. (NewsCred)
51. 87% of B2B marketers use social media to distribute content. (NewsCred)
52. 17% of marketers plan to increase podcasting efforts this year. (Forbes)
53. As consumer use of social media for brand comments and complaints continues to increase, brands are having a hard time keeping up. Only about 20% of consumer comments generate brand responses, and the average response time is over 11 hours. (eMarketer)
54. Nearly three-quarters of US marketers believe customer response management on digital channels is important (so…25% think it's okay to ignore consumers?); however, just one-third say their company does a good job at this. (eMarketer)
55. Social media marketing budgets are projected to double over the next five years (Social Fresh)
56. 66% of marketers claim that social indirectly impacts their business performance but only 9%t claim that it can be directly linked to revenue. (Forbes)
57. Over 70% of US online adults use some form of social media networking. (Heidi Cohen)
58. 72% of all internet users are now active on social media. (Jeff Bullas)
59. The top two barriers impeding adoption of social business within organizations are lack of overall strategy and competing priorities. Just 11% of marketers cite legal or regulatory concerns. (i-SCOOP)
60. 78% of companies now say they have dedicated social media teams, up from 67% in 2012. (i-SCOOP)
61. By department, companies most often have dedicated social media staff (not surprisingly) in marketing (73%), communications/PR (66%) and customer support (40%). At the other end of the scale are legal (9%) and market research (8%). (i-SCOOP)
7 Facebook Marketing stats
62. Facebook accounts for 15.8% of total time spent on the Internet. (Rocket Post)
63. 71% of online adults use Facebook. 63% of Facebook users visit daily and 40% visit multiple times per day. (Heidi Cohen)
64. More than a third (36%) of online adults use only one social networking site. Of these, 83% use Facebook. 8% use LinkedIn. (Heidi Cohen)
65. One million web pages are accessed using the "Login with Facebook" feature. (Jeff Bullas)
66. Nearly a quarter (232%) of Facebook users login at least five times per day. (Jeff Bullas)
67. 47% of Americans say Facebook is their #1 influencer of purchases. (Jeff Bullas)
68. 70% of marketers used Facebook to gain new customers. (Jeff Bullas)
3 LinkedIn Marketing Stats
69. LinkedIn is the top social network for B2B marketing (not a shock). 83% of marketers say they prefer to use LinkedIn for distributing B2B content, and more than half of vendors say they have generated sales through LinkedIn. (Real Business Rescue)
70. The average time spent on LinkedIn per month is 17 minutes. (Rocket Post)
71. 91 of the Fortune 100 companies use LinkedIn for candidate searches. (Rocket Post)
7 Twitter Marketing Stats
72. The average time per month spent by users on Twitter is 170 minutes. (Rocket Post)
73. Only about half of the people who log in to Twitter once a month are actually taking the time to tweet. The rest are lurkers. (Rocket Post)
74. Ironically, the most-followed brand on Twitter is…Facebook, with more than 13 million followers. Google is #3. (AllTwitter)
75. eBay is the most engaging brand on Twitter. Starbucks is the fourth-most-engaging, and also has the fourth highest number of followers of any major brand. (AllTwitter)
76. Not a shock: retailers and restaurants are the most engaging industries on Twtitter. Surprising: apparel brands are the least engaging. (AllTwitter)
77. Twitter now has over 550 million registered users, and 215 million active monthly users. (Jeff Bullas)
78. 34% of marketers use Twitter to successfully generate leads. (Jeff Bullas)
3 Google+ Stats
79. 18% of marketers plan to increase efforts on Google+ this year. (Forbes)
80. There are now over 1 billion Google+ accounts, and that figure is growing 33% per year. (Jeff Bullas)
81. Google+ has 359 million monthly active users. (Jeff Bullas)
13 Email Marketing Stats
82. There are nine times as many marketing emails sent each year as direct mail pieces delivered by the U.S. Postal Service. (Mark the Marketer)
83. Email marketing delivers the highest ROI (about $44 per dollar spent, on average) of any digital marketing tactic. SEO is #2. Banner ads have the lowest ROI. (Mark the Marketer)
84. 66% of consumers have made a purchase online as a result of an e-mail marketing message. (Mark the Marketer)
85. Email subject lines matter. Really. 64% of people say they open an e-mail because of the subject line. (Mark the Marketer)
86. Personalized subject lines are 22.2% more likely to be opened. For B2C emails, the words "Alert," "New," "News," "Bulletin," "Sale," "Video," "Daily," or "Weekly" (though not "Monthly") all increase open and click-through rates. (Mark the Marketer)
87. For B2B companies, subject lines that contained "money," "revenue," and "profit" performed the best. (Mark the Marketer)
88. Timing is important too. 76% of e-mail opens occur in the first two days after an e-mail is sent. E-mail open rates are noticeably lower on weekends than on weekdays. (Mark the Marketer)
89. Only 8% of companies and agencies have an e-mail marketing team. E-mail marketing responsibilities usually fall on one person as a part of her wider range of marketing responsibilities. (Mark the Marketer)
90. 72% of B2B buyers are most likely to share useful content via e-mail. (Mark the Marketer)
91. Still, the average click-through rate for B2B marketing e-mails is just 1.7%. (Mark the Marketer)
92. Emails with social sharing buttons increase click-through rates by 158%. (Social Fresh)
93. 64 percent of marketers say increasing email click-throughs and open rates is among their top priorities this year. (Forbes)
94. 67 percent of marketers say that email is ke3y for attracting and engaging prospects, and the best path to increase marketing ROI. (Forbes)
10 Mobile Marketing Stats
95. 94% of CMOs plan to use mobile applications within the next 3-5 years. (Marketing Land)
96. 75% of smartphone owners watch videos on their phones; 26% at least once per day. (NewsCred)
97. Over half of all mobile searches lead to a purchase. (Rocket Post)
98. 78% of Facebook users are mobile-only. (Rocket Post)
99. E-mail is the most popular activity on smartphones among users ages 18-44. (Mark the Marketer)
100. 64% of decision-makers read their e-mail via mobile devices. (Mark the Marketer)
101. Almost half–48%–of all emails are opened on mobile devices. Yet 39% of marketers say they have no strategy for mobile email, and only 11% of e-mails are optimized for mobile. (Mark the Marketer)
102. Mobile is the channel of choice for keep relationships with existing customers alive because it cuts through the clutter of email and social. (Forbes)
103. 71% of users access social media from a mobile device. (Jeff Bullas)
104. 50% of millennials use their smartphones to research products or services while shopping, and 41% have made purchases using their phones. (leaderswest Digital Marketing Journal)
83 Exceptional Social Media and Marketing Statistics for 2014Monday, April 14th, 2014
"Big data" is one of the trendiest buzzwordy terms in marketing/technology/business today.
So before it gets replaced by the next trendy buzzwordy term, here's some marketing-related big data for you: 83 valuable facts, stats, and research findings covering strategy, social media, SEO, online advertising, email marketing, content, blogging, social networking, video and more.
What do 40% of B2B buyers say about LinkedIn, that only 19% say about Twitter? Which "social" brands aren't really social at all? What do only 48% of searches result in? What do 91% of B2B marketers do, but only 36% do well? (No, not that.) What do 73% of reporters say press releases should contain?
Find the answers to those questions and many, many more here in more than 80 social, content, search, and email marketing facts and statistics from the past few months.
4 Marketing Management and Measurement Stats
1. Just 35% of B2B marketing executives say they can calculate the ROI of their marketing spend most or all of the time. 42% say they can calculate ROI only some of the time, rarely or not at all. (B2B Marketing)
2. While two out of three U.S. CMOs say they feel pressure from the top to prove the value of marketing, just 51% of CEOs agree "that marketing's financial value is clear to the business." (MarketingCharts)
3. That's likely because only 45% of CMOs are confident "that they know which metrics or business outcomes their key stakeholders care about." (MarketingCharts)
4. "Data analytics are currently most commonly used by B2B marketing leaders to measure and report marketing's performance (64%), as well as to justify (55%) and allocate (52%) the marketing budget. Analytics are least commonly used to fine-tune the marketing mix (14%)." (MarketingCharts)
4 B2B Marketing Stats
5. Consumerization of B2B marketing? 57% of B2B vendors say they are shifting their B2B commerce transactions from offline to online and self-service, and 44% agree "that B2B commerce is adopting B2C best practices in order to optimize the purchasing experience." (MarketingCharts)
6. Online sales currently account for about 35% of total revenue for B2B vendors, though that's higher (41%) among US companies. (MarketingCharts)
7. 40% of B2B buyers say LinkedIn is important when researching technologies and services to purchase; 19% say the same for Twitter. (Social Media Today)
8. B2B buyers today are 70%-90% of the way through their "buying journey" before they reach out to a vendor. (B2B Marketing)
6 Social Media Marketing Stats
9. Social media marketing budgets are projected to double in the next five years. (SocialTimes)
10. The top three social networks used by B2B marketers are LinkedIn (91%); Twitter (85%); and Facebook (81%). However, just 62% of marketers say that LinkedIn is effective, while 50% say the same for Twitter and only 30% of B2B marketers view Facebook as effective. (FlipCreator)
11. This one may surprise you: Google+ actually averages more visits per month than Facebook. Google+ receives 1.2 billion visits per month compared to Facebook's 809 million. (iMedia Connection)
12. 83% of B2B marketers invest in social media to increase brand exposure; 69% to increase web traffic; and 65% to gain market insights. (Social Media Today)
13. Some brands perceived as social aren't—at all. As of 2013, Apple had yet to claim a Twitter account, Facebook page, or any other type of social media presence. Ditto for Trader Joe's. (iMedia Connection)
14. People spend, on average, 4X more time on Tumblr and Pinterest than they do on Twitter. (iMedia Connection)
7 SEO and Search Stats
15. Every month there are more than 10.3 billion Google searches, with 78% of U.S. internet users researching products and services online. (B2B Marketing)
16. 54% of B2B buyers begin their buying process with informal research about business problems; nearly 80% of the time spent researching is done line. (B2B Marketing)
17. 33% of organic search clicks go to the first result. (SocialTimes)
18. The top 4 positions, generally those considered to be "above the fold", receive 83% of first page organic clicks. (Brent Carnduff)
(However, as noted here previously, "a lower position isn't always bad. If the searcher clicks the 'back' button because the top result didn't meet expectations, then he or she is 5-8 times more likely to click on a lower result than on the initial search.")
19. It's also important to consider that only 48% of searches result in an organic click. The remaining 52% result in either a click on a paid ad, leaving the search engine results page without clicking on any listing, or starting a new search. (Brent Carnduff)
20. In addition, as search intent becomes more detailed or specific (long-tail search phrases), the click distribution across the first page organic listings begins to even out, as searchers look for the best match or answer to their query. (Brent Carnduff)
21. And furthermore, long-tail searches have higher overall organic click-through rates. 56% of searches for phrases of four words or more result in a click on an organic result, compared to just 30% for single-word search queries. (Brent Carnduff)
7 Online Advertising Stats
22. Of the three major types of online advertising (search, display, and social), search is viewed as the best channel for driving direct sales, cited by 40% of marketers (vs. 26% who use display to drive sales and 18% using social). However, just over a third of marketers view each channel as valuable for lead generation. (eMarketer)
23. Landing page optimization is viewed as the most important tactic for optimizing the performance of paid search advertising, while targeting by segment is most important in optimizing display ad performance. (eMarketer)
24. 8% of Internet users account for 85% of online display ad clicks. (iMedia Connection)
25. In 2013, Internet advertising expenditures surpassed newspaper ad spending for the first time. Internet ads now account for 21% of all advertising dollars, second only to television at 40%. (Ad Age)
26. Of the 100 largest global advertisers, 41 are headquartered in the U.S., 36 in Europe, and 23 in Asia. Consumer electronics and technology is the fastest-growing ad category among the Global 100. (Ad Age)
27. The average click-through rate (CTR) for online display ads is 0.11% (roughly one click per one thousand views). CTRs aer highest in Malasia (0.30%) and Singapore (0.19%), and lowest in Australia and the U.K. (both at 0.07%). (Smart Insights)
28. Among different display ad formats, large rectangle ads (336 x 280 pixels) generate the highest CTRs on average at 0.21-0.33%, while full banners (468 x 6) generate the lowest at 0.04%. (Smart Insights)
3 Email Marketing Stats
29. Mobile matters. A lot. In 2013, 62% of emails were opened on a mobile device (48% on smartphones and 14% on tablets). (Heidi Cohen)
30. Adding social sharing buttons to email messages an increase click-through rates by more than 150%. (SocialTimes)
31. 48% of consumers say email is their preferred form of communication with brands. (iMedia Connection)
14 Content Marketing Facts and Stats
32. Though more than 90% of marketers now use content marketing, just 42% of B2B marketers and 34% of B2C marketers believe they are effective at this. (e-Strategy Trends)
33. Still, more than 70% of both B2B and B2C marketers plan to produce more content in 2014 than they did in 2013, and six out of ten plan to increase their content marketing budgets. (e-Strategy Trends)
34. 78% of CMOs believe custom content is the future of marketing. It's not clear what the other 22% are thinking. (SocialTimes)
35. Customer testimonials are the most effective form of content marketing. (SocialTimes)
36. The top challenge for content marketers is "lack of time,' according to 57% of B2C and 69% of B2B marketers (multiple responses permitted). (e-Strategy Trends)
37. When forced to choose only one "top challenge" in content marketing, 30% of marketers said "not enough time"; 11% said "producing enough content"; and another 11% said it was "producing engaging content." (@Robert_Rose on SlideShare)
38. Content creation is taking an increasing share of marketing budgets. Nearly half of marketers devote at least 10% of their total budgets to content development. One in five spend 25% or more. (eMarketer)
39. The two most popular formats for marketing content are articles (including internal and guest blog posts), used by 76% of marketers, and video, used by 60%. (eMarketer)
40. 91% of B2B marketers use content marketing. But just 36% say they are effective at it. (FlipCreator)
41. The most effective B2B content marketers 1) have a documented strategy; 2) use more than a dozen different tactics; 3) use an average of seven different social media platforms; and 4) devote nearly 40% of their budgets to content marketing, as shown below. (FlipCreator)
42. The top three content marketing tactics used by B2B marketers are social media other than blogs (87%); articles on their own websites (83%); and e-newsletters (80%). (FlipCreator)
43. B2B marketers rate in-person events and case studies as the most effective content marketing tactics (see full list below). (FlipCreator)
44. The top three organizational goals for B2B content marketing are brand awareness (82% of companies); lead generation (74%); and customer acquisition (73%). The top three metrics used to measure success are website traffic (63%); sales lead quality (54%); and social media sharing (50%). (FlipCreator)
45. 60% of consumers feel more positive about a brand after consuming content from it. (iMedia Connection)
9 Social Networking Demographics Figures and Statistics
46. Pinterest is from Venus, Google+ is from Mars. Two-thirds of Google+ users are male. 69% of Pinterest users are female. (Digital Buzz Blog)
47. Women are more social than men. (Shocking, I know.) One-half (49.0%) of U.S. adult women visit social media sites at least a few times per day, versus one-third (34.0%) of men. (New Media and Marketing)
48. About three-quarters of all Internet users are members of at least one social network. (WordPress Hosting SEO)
49. Grandma and grandpa are crashing teenagers' social media party. The fastest-growing age cohort on Twitter is 55-to-64 year-olds, up 79% since 2012. And the 45-54 age bracket is the fastest-growing group on both Facebook and Google+. (Fast Company)
50. But social media use is still much more common among the young. 89% of Internet users aged 18-29 are active on social networks, versus 43% of those 65 and older. (WordPress Hosting SEO)
51. Millennials, aka Gen Y, will account for 27% of the total U.S. population in 2014 (vs. 26% Baby Boomers), and 25% of the labor force (vs. 38% Boomers). (AllTwitter)
52. 56% of millennials won't accept jobs from firms that prohibit the use of social media in the office, and more than eight in ten say that user generated content on company websites at least somewhat influences what they buy. (AllTwitter)
53. The collective spending power of millennials will surpass that of Baby Boomers by 2018, and millennials will comprise 75% of the global labor force by 2025. (AllTwitter)
54. Millennials are, in general, not loyal to employers (91% expect to stay in a job for less than three years) but are loyal to brands (95% want brands to court them actively).(AllTwitter)
7 Business Blogging Stats and Facts
55. 76% of B2B companies maintain blogs. (FlipCreator)
56. 52% of marketers say their company blog is an important channel for content marketing. (eMarketer)
57. B2B companies that blog generate 67% more leads than those that don't. (SocialTimes)
58. 62% of B2B marketers rate blogging as an effective content marketing tactic. However, 79% of best-in-class marketers rank blogs as the most effective tactic, while just 29% of their least effective peers concur. (FlipCreator)
59. 57% of U.S. online adults read blogs. And of that group, two-thirds "say a brand mention or promotion within context of the blog influences their purchasing decisions." (New Media and Marketing)
60. Among U.S. adults aged 18-34, four-fiths say bloggers "can be very or somewhat influential in shaping product or service purchasing decisions. (New Media and Marketing)
61. Though 62% of marketers blog or plan to blog in 2013, only 9% of US marketing companies employ a full-time blogger. (Fast Company)
3 Facebook Marketing Stats
62. Facebook now has nearly 1.2 billion total users. (Digital Buzz Blog)
63. 23% of Facebook users check their account more than five times per day. (Digital Buzz Blog)
64. 47% of marketers say Facebook is overrated as a marketing platform. (iMedia Connection)
3 LinkedIn Marketing Stats
65. 45% of B2B marketers have gained a customer through LinkedIn. (Social Media Today)
66. LinkedIn is adding, on average, two members per second. However – LinkedIn has a lower percentage of active users than Pinterest, Google+ (?), Twitter or Facebook, which means "you're probably not going to have as good a response with participatory content on LinkedIn, like contests or polls, as you might on Facebook or Twitter…(though) passive content like blog posts or slide decks might be just right for your LinkedIn audience." (Fast Company)
67. Only 20% of LinkedIn users are under the age of 30. (iMedia Connection)
3 Twitter Marketing Stats
68. B2B marketers who use Twitter generate, on average, twice as many leads as those who don't. (Social Media Today)
69. 71% of tweets are ignored. Only 23% generate a reply. (iMedia Connection)
70. Advertising on Twitter costs nearly six times as much as Facebook ads on a CPM basis; however, the CTR for Twitter ads is 8-24 times higher. (Smart Insights)
3 Google+ Marketing Stats
71. Google+ has more than one billion total users, though only about a third (359 million) are active. (eConsultancy)
72. Users spend an average of three minutes per month on Google+. (iMedia Connection)
73. 70% of brands have a presence on Google+. (WordPress Hosting SEO)
6 Visual Content (Image and Video) Marketing Stats
74. Nearly two-thirds of people are visual learners, and visual data is processed much faster by the brain than is text. (SocialTimes)
75. Adding videos to landing pages can increase conversions by nearly 90%. (SocialTimes)
76. YouTube reaches more U.S. adults aged 18-34 than any cable network. (Fast Company)
77. More than three-quarters (77%) of brand posts shared on Facebook are photos. (iMedia Connection)
78. 73% of reporters say that press releases should contain images. (SocialTimes)
79. There are five million new businesses started each year. One out of 500 get funded and achieve a successful exit. (@Robert_Rose on SlideShare)
3 Marketing Career-Related Stats
80. 79% of B2B marketing executives report noticable skills gaps in the teams they manage. The top areas for skills gaps are in data analysis, customer insight, and digital marketing techniques. (B2B Marketing)
81. Social media experts are in demand. Job postings on LinkedIn for social media positions have grown 1,300% since 2010. (The Strategy Web)
82. Looking for a job in social media? The top five cities for job openings with "social media" in the title are:
- • New York
- • Los Angeles
- • San Francisco
- • London
- • Chicago
(That social media job had better pay well though. NY, SF and LA are all among the top 10 most expensive US cities to live in and London is the 15th-most expensive city globally.)
And One Final Statistic that Simply Cannot be Categorized
83. Food is the top category on Pinterest; 57% of users discuss food-related content. Garlic Cheesy Bread is the most repinned Pinterest Pin. (Digital Buzz Blog)
103 Compelling Social Media and Marketing Statistics for 2013 (and 2014)Tuesday, November 12th, 2013
As the use of social media in marketing has become ubiquitous, marketers have turned their attention to making the use of business social media more sophisticated and strategic. They are refining tactics, integrating social with other marketing channels, taking a hard look at new networks, and continuing to refine their measurements of success.
How can marketers help their organizations move from "social media marketing" to "social business"? Which emerging platforms are essential (or even worth investigating)? What role does social play in a brand's overall online visibility? How does social media use differ in B2B vs. B2C companies? Between large and small businesses? Which content marketing tactics and formats are gaining or losing favor? How do marketers separate hype from reality in mobile?
Find the answers to these questions and many, many more in this compilation of more than 100 compelling social media, content marketing and SEO stats, facts and observations.
General Social Media Marketing Facts and Statistics
1. 97% of all consumers search for local businesses online. (An amazing statistic, given that nearly 20% of the adult U.S. population still lacks internet access). (Relevanza)
2. 20- to 30-year-olds (Gen Y), act like no other previous generations. 20-something business buyers are roughly twice as likely to seek information or advice from social media as the generation before them (31- to 40-year-olds) and almost four times more likely to than the baby boomers (51- to 60-year-olds). (MediaPost)
3. 68% of Google+ users are male, while 80% of Pinterest users are women. (leaderswest Digital Marketing Journal)
4. Looking at the importance of social media by business function, 80% of business executives said social is "important" or "somewhat important" in marketing and branding; 74% said the same for customer service; 70% for innovation and new product/service development; and 63% for employee recruiting. Less than half view social media as important for supplier/partner engagement. (e-Strategy Trends)
5. Social media isn't quite as ubiquitous as it sometimes seems. 7% of the American population has never heard of Facebook, and 41% say they haven't heard of LinkedIn. And these people can vote. Which explains a lot. (iMedia Connection)
6. 72% of adult internet users in the U.S. are now active on at least one social network, up from 67% in 2012 and just 8% in 2005. (MediaPost)
7. As many companies have learned the hard way, unanswered complaints on social networks can go viral, causing real damage to a company's brand. But the opposite is also true: 71% of consumers receiving a quick brand response on social media say they would likely recommend that brand to others. (Forbes)
8. 65% of respondents of global business executives say their organizations use social business tools to understand market shifts; 45% to improve visibility into operations; and 45% to identify internal talent. (Deloitte University Press)
9. There are, on average, 700 YouTube video links shared on Twitter every minute, and 500 years worth of YouTube videos watched on Facebook every day. (Social Media Today)
10. 60% of LinkedIn users have clicked on an ad on the site, and 43% of U.S. marketers have obtained at least one new customer through LinkedIn. (Social Media Today)
11. 70% of brands now have a presence on Google+, up from just 4% in the last quarter of 2012. (Social Media Today)
12. 69% of brands now have a presence on Pinterest, up from 10% in the fourth quarter of 2012. (Social Media Today)
General Marketing Facts and Statistics
13. Webinars, virtual events and other digital communications channels are driving trade shows and other live events to extinction, right? Wrong. Nearly three-quarters of brand marketers still view live trade shows and conferences as either "very valuable" or "essential to doing business." Just 9% say their importance is diminishing. (e-Strategy Trends)
14. 93% of online research starts with a search engine, and 68% of consumers check out companies on social networking sites before buying. Visibility is vital, so every brand needs a comprehensive strategy for optimizing their overall web presence. (Brandpoint)
15. To optimize not just online visibility but also trust with buyers, vendors need to focus on their industry presence. Just 9% of B2B decision makers consider vendor content trustworthy vs. 67% who trust research from professional associations, 50% from industry organizations, 44% from analyst reports, and 40% from independent product reviews. (B2B Marketing Insider)
16. The average CTR for banners is 0.01 percent. According to Get Elastic, 31 percent of consumers are worried that they will be tracked if they click them, and 55 percent fear a virus. And yet—there were 5.3 trillion display ads served up last year. (iMedia Connection)
17. Big contradictions on big data: 71% of marketers say they plan to have Big Data solutions in place in the next two years. But 75% of marketers can't calculate their ROI of their marketing spending and and 50% of them say that IT is not a strategic partner. (ZDNet)
18. Another contradiction: while 86% of companies are comfortable marketing with social tools, only 41% use social tools for communicating with customers. (Forbes)
B2B Social Media Marketing Stats and Facts
19. Nearly half of B2B marketers planned to increase their overall marketing budgets this year despite continuing economic challenges. Two-thirds planned to increase digital marketing spending. (Social Media Today)
20. Another source found that almost half of B2B marketers (the same "almost half"?) anticipate an increased budget for 2014, while just 3% foresee spending reductions. (eMarketer)
21. Just 38% of b2b marketers say they have a defined social media strategy. (Marketing Pilgrim)
22. Twitter is the most popular platform in b2b, with 85% of marketers saying they use this. LinkedIn is a close second at 82%. (Marketing Pilgrim)
23. Nearly three-quarters of b2b marketers say they can't measure the ROI of social media at, or can measure it only some of the time. The primary measurement of social media success is increased website traffic. (Marketing Pilgrim)
24. Is social media displacing PR? In a recent survey of B2B PR professionals, 94% said they use social media to promote announcements vs. 71% who use press releases. 45% said they would use social media if they could use just one promotional vehicle vs. 24% who said they would issue a press release. (B2B PR Sense Blog)
25. 60% of B2B marketers identify lead generation as their top online marketing challenge. And more than a third (36%) say they can't accurately attribute online conversions to the correct marketing channels. (eMarketer)
26. Which lead gen tactics work best? B2B marketers put email marketing at the top (with 51% saying this is a highly effective tactic) followed by SEO and content marketing (38% each), offline events like trade shows (31%) and paid search/online ads (29%). Just 11% say social media is highly effective for lead gen, and 1% identify mobile marketing. (eMarketer)
27. In terms of difficulty of execution, nearly half (49%) of B2B marketers put social media marketing at the top, followed by content marketing (39%), SEO (26%) and mobile (25%). (eMarketer)
28. Opportunity being squandered: B2B buyers under 35 years old (a growing group) are 131% more likely to make corporate purchases online than their older counterparts. 90% of B2B buyers age 18-35 now make company purchases online, compared with 45% of those age 45-60 and 29% of those age 60+. Yet nearly half have purchased from Amazon Supply in the past year because their current suppliers aren't offering an online purchase channel. (BizReport)
29. Another opportunity being squandered: More than 90% of B2B marketers consider webinars/webcasts, e-books, white papers, and published articles to be either "very" or "somewhat" effective in achieving SEO and marketing objectives. Yet less half utilize webcasts and just 20% create e-books. (MarketingSherpa)
30. While B2B B2B buyers age 60+ conduct online research before purchasing less than 10% of the time, younger buyers (age 26-45) do research before purchasing 50% of the time or more. Another reason it's vital to have a framework for maximizing a brand's online visibility. (BizReport)
31. More than 80% of B2B decision makers say they visit vendor-independent communities or forums, vendor-sponsored communities or forums, and LinkedIn at least monthly for business purposes. (Marketing Charts)
32. 32% of B2B decision makers use Pinterest at least monthly, but only 2% do so primarily for business reasons. (Marketing Charts)
33. 87% of B2B companies view social media (other than blogs) as a highly successful element of their marketing mix. 83% say the same for articles on websites, 78% eNewsletters, and 77% blogs. (MyCustomer.com)
34. The top four metrics used to measure B2B social media success are web traffic (60%), sales lead quality (51%), social sharing (45%) and sales lead quantity (43%). (MyCustomer.com)
35. Almost 60% of all social media-referred traffic to B2B websites comes from just three networks: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. (It's All About Revenue)
36. In 2012, less than a third of B2B marketers said their social media activities were either "fully integrated" or "very involved" with company-wide operations. Today that figure is close to half. (eMarketer)
37. The top marketing tactics used by B2B marketers this year were social networks (84%), email marketing (72%), SEO (56%) and press releases (51%). The least popular tactics, each used by less a quarter of marketers, were online ads, seminars and ebooks. (eMarketer)
Statistics About Social Media Use in the Enterprise
38. 77 of the Fortune Global 100 companies have at least one official corporate Twitter account. (leaderswest Digital Marketing Journal)
39. 48% of the Fortune Global 100 are on Google+. (leaderswest Digital Marketing Journal)
40. More than one-third of Fortune 500 companies have active Google+ accounts. However, 19% of the companies with Google+ corporate accounts have not yet activated them. Google+ remains the only major social platform with a significant number of open—but inactive—accounts. (MediaPost)
41. 70% of the Fortune 500 companies have Facebook pages, including nine of the top 10 companies. (MediaPost)
42. The top five social networks used by B2B marketers to distribute content are LinkedIn (83%), Twitter (80%), Facebook (80%), YouTube (61%) and Google+ (39%). (Social Media Today)
43. Another study pegs the top three social networks in use buy Fortune 500 companies are Twitter (77%), Facebook (70%) and YouTube (69%). (leaderswest Digital Marketing Journal)
44. The leaders of these companies lag in their own social media use, however. Of the 500 leaders of the biggest companies in the US, only 28 have a Twitter account, and only 19 of them actually use it. (Quartz)
45. 68% of Fortune 500 CEOs have no social media presence whatsoever. Among the rest, 26% are on LinkedIn, but less than 10% are on Facebook and just 1% – five CEOs – are on Google+. (Quartz)
46. And yet, 90% of global business executives say that social media is important today or will be within a year. (Deloitte University Press)
47. Maybe they just aren't doing it right? When asked to rank their company's social business maturity on a scale of 1 to 10, more than half of global business executives gave their company a score of 3 or below. Only 31% gave a rating of 4 to 6. Just 17% ranked their company at 7 or above. (Deloitte University Press)
48. By department, the largest users of social media in enterprises are marketing (with 78% using social media to a moderate to great extent), IT (64%), sales (63%), and customer service (62%). The functions using social media least are operations (46%), supply chain operations (36%), risk management (35%) and finance (28%). (Deloitte University Press)
49. More than 40% of enterprises measure the success of their externally facing social media initiatives based on social reach (e.g., number of fans/followers) or brand reputation enhancement. Just 14% measure it based on sales. 19% don't measure it at all. (Deloitte University Press)
50. Among the Interbrands Top 100 brands (B2C), nearly all have a presence on Facebook and Twitter. 76% are also on Google+, 74% are on Pinterest, almost a third (31) are on Tumblr. (MediaPost)
51. Why Tumblr? Because "posts tend to have a longer shelf life on Tumblr than Facebook and Twitter through 'reblogs,' or reposts of updates. Almost a third of reblogs (29%) took place more than 30 days after the initial post." (MediaPost)
52. Does that mean B2B marketers should jump on Tumblr to promote their thought leadership content as well? Not necessarily; MTV claimed the second-highest number of reblogs in a recent period. Sprite claimed the most reblogs over that timeframe, with more than 85,000 for a single post with an animated GIF of a game of spin the bottle. (MediaPost)
Small Business Social Media Statistics and Facts
53. 78% of small businesses attract new customers through social media. (Relevanza)
54. This despite the fact that 80% of SMB websites don't display links to the company's social networks. (iMedia Connection)
55. The top three challenges faced by SMB B2B marketers are lead quantity (69%), lead quality (60%), increasing brand awareness (56%) and reaching decision makers (52%). It seems like those figures haven't budged much in 20 years. (MarketingProfs)
56. The three tactics viewed as most effective for generating SMB B2B sales leads are company websites, email newsletters, and tradeshows. LinkedIn and Facebook were also cited as effective by more than half of marketers, coming in just ahead of direct mail. (MarketingProfs)
57. At the other end of the scale, Pinterest, outdoor media and virtual events were cited as the lead effective tactics for SMB B2B lead generation. (MarketingProfs)
58. SMB marketers identify the top three benefits of social media marketing as increased exposure (89%), increased website traffic (75%), and access to marketplace insights (69%). However, less than half said that it either reduced marketing expenses or increased sales. (eMarketer)
59. Small business marketers are most likely to outsource TV/radio advertising (40%) and SEO (35%); they are least likely to outsource email newsletter and social media marketing management (less than 5% each). (Constant Contact)
60. However, those decisions are often budget-driven. Half or more of SMB marketers would prefer to outsource both TV/radio ads and SEO, and nearly 20% would outsource social media marketing if they could. (Constant Contact)
Content Marketing Facts and Stats
61. The content marketing challenges faced by enterprises and small businesses must be very different, right? Well…yes and no. Marketers in companies large and small rank are challenged by producing engaging content, producing enough content, producing a variety of content, and measuring content marketing effectiveness in broadly similar proportions. But surprisingly, they part ways on the challenge of lack of executive buy-in (38% of enterprise marketers vs. 25% of SMB marketers say they are challenged by this), lack of budget (48% enterprise, 38% SMB) and most dramatically, lack of integration across marketing channels (58% enterprise, 23% SMB). (Content Marketing Institute)
62. 92% of marketers believe that content creation is either "very" or "somewhat" effective for SEO. (leaderswest Digital Marketing Journal)
63. More than half of B2B and business-to-government (B2G) marketers focus on white papers and case studies as key components of their content marketing, compared to less than 10% of B2C marketers. However, those on the consumer side focus much more on customer reviews (44% vs. 27% for B2B). (MarketingSherpa)
64. Different types of content address different levels of the purchase funnel. At the top of the funnel, blog posts, news articles, press releases and social media content drive awareness. In the consideration stage, "category level" web page content, "long tail" blogs and news articles, newsletters, FAQs and white papers are most effective. (Brandpoint)
65. On average, 25% of marketing budgets are now spent on content development, delivery and promotion. (B2B Marketing Insider)
66. 87% of buyers say online content has a major or moderate impact on vendor preference and selection; but 43% say "blatantly self-promotional" content is a major turn off. (B2B Marketing Insider)
67. 54% of B2B marketers plan to increase spending on content marketing in 2014. (MyCustomer.com)
68. 77% of B2B marketers use a blog as part of their content marketing mix, and 70% use online video. (Social Media Today)
Business Blogging Statistics and Facts
69. Blogs convert readers into buyers. 42% of consumers look to blogs for information about potential purchases; 52% say blogs have impacted their purchase decisions; and 57% of marketers have acquired new customers with their blogs. (leaderswest Digital Marketing Journal)
70. Despite that, just 34% of Fortune 500 enterprises maintain corporate blogs – up from 28% in 2012. (leaderswest Digital Marketing Journal)
71. Within the Fortune 500, telecommunications (53%) and specialty retailers (48%) are most likely to have blogs. (leaderswest Digital Marketing Journal)
72. 77% of B2B firms maintain blogs. (MyCustomer.com)
73. Or do they? Another source puts the share of B2B marketers using blogs at 39% in 2013, down from 48% in 2012. Hmm, confusing. (eMarketer)
SEO and Search Marketing Stats and Facts
74. 50% of searchers on Bing click the first organic result. Only about 6% click the third result, 3% on the fourth result, and 1% on results near the bottom of page one. (Search Engine Land)
75. However—a lower position isn't always bad. If the searcher clicks the "back" button because the top result didn't meet expectations, then he or she is 5-8 times more likely to click on a lower result than on the initial search. That is, the CTR for a result near the bottom of page one can be as high as 8% after a "back" button click. (Search Engine Land)
76. 50% of marketers cite web pages as "very effective" for SEO. Really, only 50%? (leaderswest Digital Marketing Journal)
77. Another study puts the figure above at 95%; that sounds more like it. (MarketingSherpa)
78. 50% of consumers say they are more like to click on a search result if the brand appears multiple times on the results page. This is why web presence optimization is vital! (leaderswest Digital Marketing Journal)
79. Marketers produce a wide variety of content to support SEO, with web pages (79%), social media (74%) and blogs (68%) topping the list. The least-used tactics? Mobile apps (14%), digital magazines (11%) and podcasts (8%). (MarketingSherpa)
80. Search AND social rule. Among marketers who rate their companies' SEO strategies as "highly effective" in achieving marketing objectives, 38% have extensive integration between their social media and SEO tactics, and only5% have no such integration. Among those who call their SEO "not successful," just 2% have extensive search and social integration, while 50% have no connection between these activities. (Marketing Charts)
81. Again comparing "superior" to "inferior" SEO strategists, those in the superior group are 67% more likely to say that creating original content is their most effective SEO tactic, and three-and-a-half times more likely to cite changing search engine algorithms as a critical obstacle to achieving their objectives, while being far less likely (6% vs. 58%) to point to the lack of a clear and concise strategy as a main challenge. (Marketing Charts)
82. Organic or paid? No, both! Paid search supports organic SEO efforts: paid-search ads alongside organic listings in position two through five receive two out of every three clicks from the search engine results page (SERP). When organic results are well below the fold in positions six through 10, paid search is responsible for nine out of 10 clicks to the Web site. (MediaPost)
83. Even when organic results fall in the first position, consumers still click on the paid-search ad. When a paid listing appears on a SERP with the top organic listing for the same keyword, the organic result gets 60% of the clicks on average and the paid link 40% of clicks. (MediaPost)
84. Just 23% of marketers generate more than half of all leads through organic search. 22% of companies generate between a quarter and half of all leads via search, and 24% obtain less than one out of every 10 leads via SEO. (MarketingSherpa)
Mobile Marketing Statistics
85. 50% of clicks on mobile banner ads are accidental. (iMedia Connection)
86. Still, mobile video is the fastest growth area in marketing. (iMedia Connection)
87. And 35% of B2B marketers plan to increase their spending on mobile marketing this year. (Social Media Today)
88. Facebook will account for 13% of worldwide mobile ad revenue in 2013. (Social Media Today)
Facebook Statistics and Facts
89. 77% of B2C companies and 43% of B2B vendors have acquired customers from Facebook. (leaderswest Digital Marketing Journal)
90. 81% of B2B decision makers say they visit Facebook at least monthly–but only 2% do so primarily for business purposes, as opposed to 42% who do so primarily for personal purposes. (Marketing Charts)
91. 20% of all internet page views come from Facebook. (iMedia Connection)
92. 95% of all social media-referred traffic to B2C websites is generated from just five social networks: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, StumbleUpon, and YouTube. 74% comes from Facebook alone. (It's All About Revenue)
93. On Facebook, brevity matters. Keeping your posts below 250 characters can get you 60% more engagement than you might otherwise see. You can get up to 66% more engagement if you cut it down to less than 80 characters. (Buffer)
Twitter Statistics and Facts
94. 34% of marketers say they have generated leads from Twitter. (leaderswest Digital Marketing Journal)
95. To maximize click-throughs from your tweets, keep them to 100 characters or less and tweet in the afternoon (between 1:00 and 4:00 EST). (leaderswest Digital Marketing Journal)
96. Twitter accounts for 32% of social media-generated traffic to B2B websites, but 82% of social media leads. Hmm, that doesn't jive with other research on B2B social media. (MyCustomer.com)
97. 18% of U.S. adult internet users are now on Twitter, double the percentage from 2010. (MediaPost)
98. Using Twitter for social media? Great idea, but you'd better be listening. 81% of Twitter users expect a same-day response to questions and complaints aimed at brands. (Forbes)
99. There are 400 million tweets sent each day. (Social Media Today)
(And incidentally, the only organizations that have indexed all tweets back to the beginning of the service are Twitter itself, the Library of Congress, and Topsy. And presumably the NSA.)
100. 50% of technology companies have acquired a customer through Twitter. (Social Media Today)
101. While posting the same headline and link, over and over, is obnoxious, strategically repeating a tweet several hours apart–when different groups of your followers are likely online–can substantially increase click-throughs, without being annoying. (Buffer)
102. For tweets with links, 120-130 characters is the ideal range to maximize retweets. (Buffer)
103. Use hashtags—but sparingly. Tweets with one or two hashtags get 21% higher engagement on average, but those with three or more actually get 17% less engagement. (Buffer)
87 More Vital Social Media Marketing Facts and Stats for 2012Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
Though social media marketing is now used in about 90% of companies, techniques, platforms and best practices continue to evolve. Should you include Pinterest in your mix? Increase use of video marketing? Is blogging coming back or trailing off? What will likely be the hot trends in social media over the next couple of years?
Marketers have questions, this post has answers: 87 vital social media and online marketing statistics covering everything from how executives and large companies are using social media for marketing, customer service and recruiting to fresh stats on the leading social media platforms to search, email, content and mobile marketing trends.
The recent 72 Fascinating Social Media Stats post on JeffBullas.com was one of my post popular guest posts ever, so here is an entirely new set of social media stats, facts and research findings.
Social Media Stats and Demographics
1. Social media accounts for only 16% of customer engagement today, but is expected to increase to 57%—the second-most used channel, behind only face to face interaction—within five years. (Marketing Pilgrim)
2. 30% of the world's entire population is now online, and social networking is the most popular and time consuming online activity—with users spending more than one fifth (22%) of their time engaging on social media channels. This means that more than 250 million tweets and 800 million Facebook status updates are now published every single day. (MindJumpers)
3. Brazilians have the highest number of online friends of any country, averaging 481 friends per user, while the Japanese average only 29 friends. (MindJumpers)
4. 56% of Americans have a profile on at least one social networking site. And it's not just millenials; 55% of those aged 45-54 have at least one social network profile. (Convince & Convert)
5. Social networks and blogs In the U.S reach nearly 80% of active U.S. Internet users and represent the majority of Americans' time online. (MediaPost)
6. 60% of people who use three or more digital means of research for product purchases learned about a specific brand or retailer from a social networking site. 48% of these consumers responded to a retailer's offer posted on Facebook or Twitter. (MediaPost)
7. 90% of marketers now use social networks in their marketing efforts, but growth has plateaued; the figure was 89% in 2011. (eMarketer)
8. Half of all social media users are between 25 and 44 years old, but the age distribution varies widely across social networks. Reddit and Tumblr are among the "youngest" networks, with half or more of users under 35 years old. Twitter is about in the middle (55% of users age 35 or older) while 65% of Facebook users are over 35 (didn't this start with college students?) and LinkedIn is the "oldest" network, with 79% of users age 35 and older. (Pingdom)
9. Women tend to be somewhat more present and active on social media than men, though the shares vary widely by site. Men tend to dominate on technical sites (e.g., Slashdot is almost 90% guys); LinkedIn is close to a 50-50 split; Twitter and Facebook are both about 40% male / 60% female; and women account for almost 90% of Pinterest users. (Pingdom)
10. Social media and blogs reach 80% of all U.S. Internet users. 91% of experienced social marketers see improved website traffic due to social media and 79% are generating more quality leads. (Business2Community)
11. 90% of companies with 100 or more employees use social media in their marketing mix. 83% use Facebook and 53% are on Twitter, though that gap is expected to narrow by 2014 due to rapid growth in Twitter use. (eMarketer)
Social Media in the Enterprise
12. Just 23% of Fortune 500 companies maintain an active blog, vs. 37% of Inc. 500 firms. (V3 Integrated Marketing)
13. 35% of the top 100 Fortune 500 companies have a corporate blog compared to 14 percent of those Fortune 500 companies in the bottom 300-500 of the category, i.e., top companies devote more attention to their corporate blogs than those in the bottom of the pack. (V3 Integrated Marketing)
14. 62% of Fortune 500 companies have an active Twitter account, while 58% maintain a corporate Facebook page. (V3 Integrated Marketing)
15. Looking at five leading social networks (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google+ and Pinterest), Fortune 100 company names are mentioned more than 10 million times per month. (Digital Buzz Blog)
16. The average Fortune 100 company is mentioned nearly 56,000 times per month On Twitter. (Digital Buzz Blog)
17. 87 of the Fortune 100 companies are now active on at least one social network. 82 use Twitter, 75 have a Facebook page, 50 are on Google+ and 25% use Pinterest. (Digital Buzz Blog)
18. To accommodate different product lines, business units and geographies, the average Fortune 100 company now maintains 10 official corporate Twitter accounts, 10 Facebook pages and eight YouTube channels. (Digital Buzz Blog)
19. Fortune 500 companies tend to be antisocial. Less than half of Fortune 500 businesses provide a link to their Facebook profile or Twitter handle on the Contact Us page of their Web sites. About 27% of consumer-facing Fortune 500 corporations do not list social media channels on their Web site home page, 89% do not list an e-mail address on their site, and 13% don't list a phone number on their Contact Us page. (MediaPost)
Social Media Use in the C-Suite
20. 71% of consumers say that CEO participation in social media leads to improved brand image. (41 Stories)
21. Only 3.2% of Fortune 500 (largest companies) CEOs have a Twitter account compared with 17% of Inc. 500 (fastest-growing companies) CEOs. (41 Stories)
22. 52% of CEOs who are active in social media say that it helps their companies rise in search rankings, and 48% say that social media has generated qualified sales leads. (41 Stories)
23. Though 94% of corporations use social media in some way and 58% of executives acknowledge that social media is useful for lead generation and developing brand loyalty, 70% of CEOs have no presence on any social network. 26% are on LinkedIn, 8% have a Facebook page and just 4% use Twitter. (Business Insider)
24. This is the case even though 82% of buyers say they are more likely to trust a company whose top executive is active on social media, and 81% of employees believe that social CEOs are better leaders. (Business Insider)
Social Media and Human Resources
25. 40% of organizations have a formal social media policy, and 56% of those policies include a statement regarding the organization's right to monitor social media usage. More than a third (39%) of companies monitor their employees social media use on company-owned computers and handheld devices. (Resume Bear)
26. 92% of recruiters use social media to find new candidates, up from 82% in 2010. And 73% now say they have successfully hired through social media, up significantly from just 58% two years ago. (Ragan.com)
27. Not surprisingly, LinkedIn is the most popular social network among recruiters, with 93% using it. 66% use Facebook while 54% utilize Twitter. More dramatically, 89% of recruiters say that LinkedIn has produced at least one successful hire for them, compared to 25% who say the same of Facebook and just 15% who've had recruiting success with Twitter. (Ragan.com)
Facebook Stats
28. 20% of all pageviews on the web are on Facebook. (Jeff Bullas)
29. Half of all Facebook users use it on mobile devices, at least occasionally. (Jeff Bullas)
30. More than 500 million people log in to Facebook each day, and they collectively post 3.2 billion likes and comments. (Jeff Bullas)
31. Social media fatigue? Though 20% of Facebook users say they check in on the social network once or twice per day, 52% plan to spend less time there in the future. (SodaHead)
32. 73% of users believe that another social network will eclipse Facebook. (SodaHead)
Twitter Facts
33. Twitter attracts one million new users per day. (Jeff Bullas)
34. Of Twitter's 165 million users, half access Twitter on mobile devices at least occasionally. (HubSpot)
35. 53% of Twitter users have been a member for less than a year, compared to just 19% for Facebook. (Convince & Convert)
36. 76% of Twitter users are active tweeters, up from 47% in 2010. (Convince & Convert)
37. Want to get retweeted more often? Research shows that keywords which increase the likelihood of retweeting include "please," "thank you," "Twitter," "social media" and "you." Words to avoid include "lol," gonna," "hey," "tired," "work" and "bored." (iMedia Connection)
38. Twitter users now post 340 million tweets per day, or roughly a billion tweets every three days. (Digital Buzz Blog)
LinkedIn Statistics
39. Two news users join LinkedIn every second. (Jeff Bullas)
40. 75 of the Fortune 100 companies use LinkedIn in their corporate hiring process. (HubSpot)
YouTube and Video Marketing Trends
41. YouTube is the third-most-visited site on the web, with two billion views per day. (Jeff Bullas)
42. YouTube use accounts for 10% of all traffic on the Internet. (Jeff Bullas)
43. 76% of marketers said they planned to increase use of video and YouTube in 2012. (HubSpot)
44. There are 1.5 million business-related searches on YouTube each day, and 75% of senior executives say they watch work-related videos at least weekly. (Earnest B2B)
Blogging Stats
45. Companies that blog have 434% more indexed pages. And companies with more indexed pages generate far more leads from search. (Search Engine Journal)
46. The very first blogs appeared in 1998, and Blogger.com was launched in 1999. By 2006, there were more than 50 million blogs in existence. (HubSpot)
47. Today, there are more than 158 million blogs (though only about 70 million are active). (Spin Sucks)
48. B2C companies who blog regularly see an 88% increase in median monthly leads and B2B companies who blog see a 67% increase in leads. (V3 Integrated Marketing)
49. Roughly 60% of business blogs are updated at least twice per week. (Marketing Charts)
50. Another study found that while 60% of businesses have a blog, only 35% of those (i.e., 21% of all businesses) actively maintain them. (New Media Expo Blog)
51. The two most popular blogging platforms are WordPress (used for 43% of all blogs) and Blogger (35%). Surprised it's that close. (New Media Expo Blog)
Content Marketing Findings
52. The most popular forms of content marketing for B2B companies are social media excluding blogs (79%) and article posting (78%). 51% maintain blogs, 42% conduct webinars and webcasts, and 41% produce videos. Just 11% use mobile content and only 9% create eBooks. (Earnest B2B)
53. However, 71% of B2B marketers view in-person events as effective while only 31% say the same about social media excluding blogs. (Earnest B2B)
54. Relevance is critical is content marketing. 45% of consumers have unsubscribed from emails due to irrelevant content, and on the B2B side, IT buyers say that 58% of vendor content is not relevant to them, and that this lack of relevance reduces the chance of closing a sale by 45%. (MarketingSherpa)
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Facts
55. 70% of the links search users click on are organic. (This is an overall average, however, and the share of clicks on paid results is considerably higher for many commercially oriented searches.) (Search Engine Journal)
56. 46% of all searches are for information about products or services. (HubSpot)
57. 75% of searchers never scroll past the first page of results (which also means of course that 25% do). (Search Engine Journal)
58. 93% of online experiences (including b2b and considered purchases) begin with a search engine. (Search Engine Journal)
59. Half of all local searches are performed on mobile devices. (HubSpot)
60. 66% of new customers use search and online research to find local businesses. (HubSpot)
61. 21% of all time spent online is spent on web searches. (MindJumpers)
62. It's probably no surprise that the big three search engines (Google, Bing and Yahoo!) are among the five most-visited sites on the Internet. But consider that AOL is #7 and Ask is #10, meaning that…five of the top 10 most-visited sites on the web are search engines. (MindJumpers)
63. B2B companies that maintain active content (e.g., bloogging) and SEO programs increased their total website traffic, on average, by 25% in the past year, while those who neglected SEO (either never did it or did SEO only as a one-time effort at site launch) experienced an average 15% decline in overall visits. (Webbiquity)
64. How big is the SEO industry? Well, there are 863 million websites globally that mention "SEO." There are 9.1 million searches conducted including the acronym each month, with the top two phrases being "SEO services" and "SEO company." More than 60,000 Twitter users include "SEO" in their bios, there have been 13 million blog posts published that include "SEO" in the title, and Amazon.com carries almost 2,700 different books about SEO. (Search Engine Journal)
65. While it's vital for marketers to integrate search and social in terms of their strategies, it turns out consumers don't like the two actually mixed in search results. 62% say they do not want social results included on search engine result pages (SERPs), while just 19% do. (Search Engine Watch)
66. If social results are going to be included on SERPs, consumers prefer Bing's layout (social off to the right side) rather than Google's layout (social mixed with organic results), 63% to 37%. However, by a 5-to-3 margin, consumers preferred Google's display of universal search results. (Search Engine Watch)
Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Online Advertising
67. Every marketer knows that click-through rates on banner ads are very low. Why? 31% of users say they are worried if they click on an ad that their behavior will be tracked, while 57% fear they will receive spam from advertisers. (Get Elastic)
68. The average person is more likely to apply and be accepted by Harvard or be dealt a full house in poker than to click on a banner ad. (Get Elastic)
69. There are more tweets each month that include "PPC" (282,000) than there are that include "SEO" (248,000), though there are most searches on and blog posts written about SEO. (Search Engine Journal)
70. Click-through rates (CTR) on search ads for keyword phrases with "high commercial intent' are up to 600 times greater than average CTR for ads on a typical Facebook page. (e-Strategy Trends)
Mobile Marketing Statistics
71. There are about four billion mobile phones in use. Of those, 27% (1.08 billion) are smartphones. (HubSpot)
72. 50% of all smartphone users use their devices to search the web, and 49% use them for social networking. (HubSpot)
73. 8% of web hits worldwide are from mobile phones. In the US, 25% of mobile Web users are mobile-only. Further, 80% of this traffic will leave if your website isn't optimized for mobile–a good case for having a mobile-friendly website. (Heidi Cohen)
74. Do some research and consider carefully before investing in design and creation of a mobile app for your business. A quarter of all mobile apps are used only once. (Heidi Cohen)
75. 74% of Americans are unfamiliar with the concept of checking in to a location via mobile device, and only 3% have ever checked in. (Convince & Convert)
76. One in four employees use personal smartphones at work. (Earnest B2B)
77. Almost 40% of social media users access social media content from their mobile phone at least occasionally. (MediaPost)
78. Mobile and video are the two hottest growth areas in marketing. 17% of marketers say they've been using mobile marketing for less than a year, while another 17% plan to start using it in the coming year. The figures are 14% and 10%, respectively, for video marketing. (eMarketer)
79. In a July 2012 survey, 26% of respondents said they were interested in the iPhone5, while 74% said they were "over it"–just not that intrigued by another new Apple device. (SodaHead)
Email Marketing Facts
80. Nearly one billion Internet users are on Facebook. But 3.1 billion use email. (HubSpot)
81. Less than one out of five email marketers include social sharing links in their emails. Of those, 91% include a Facebook link while nearly half include Twitter. (HubSpot)
82. 19% of all time spent online is spent on reading and responding to emails. (MindJumpers)
Other Social and Marketing Stats
83. Instagram tripled its user base from 10 million in September 2011 to 30 million by April 2012. Its Android app had one million downloads on the day it was released. (Jeff Bullas)
84. 97% of Pinterest's Facebook "likes" are from women. (Jeff Bullas)
85. Google+ adds 625,000 new users each day. (Jeff Bullas)
86. 67% of Google+ users are male. (Jeff Bullas)
87. A majority of marketers worldwide say that less than half of all the analytics data they collect is actually useful for decision-making, and 34% say analytics are not integrated at all with their business plans. (eMarketer)


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Date — 21 April, 2014
Beijing/Schaffhausen, 21 April 2014 – IWC Schaffhausen reaffirms its passion for film-making at the Beijing International Film Festival (BJIFF) and for the second time acts as its official sponsor and partner. This year, about 200 celebrities and VIP guests from around the world were invited to the glamorous gala event entitled "For the Love of Cinema". Among the invitees were actors Francis Ng, Du Juan, Ni Ni, Liao Fan, Zhang Liang, writer Liu Zhen Yun, as well as actress Zhou Xun, who today was announced as a new Friend of the Brand. The IWC Filmmaker Award went to Feng Xiaogang, one of the most famous directors in China.
"We are thrilled to support the young and upcoming Beijing International Film Festival for the second time in a row," said Goris Verburg, Director Marketing & Communication of IWC Schaffhausen. He welcomed a wide range of celebrities to the exclusive "For the Love of Cinema" gala event, held in the grounds of the historic Imperial Ancestral Temple in Beijing. The internationally acclaimed actress and singer Zhou Xun ("Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress", "Cloud Atlas") walked the red carpet for the first time in her role as IWC Friend of the Brand. She was accompanied by her actor colleagues Du Juan, Ni Ni, Francis Ng, Zhang Liang and Liao Fan who won the Silver Bear for best actor at the Berlin International Film Festival 2014, as well as by film director Feng Xiaogang and famous writer Liu Zhen Yun. "We are delighted to be contributing to the internationalization, professionalism and global cultural exchange of film-making under the main theme of the festival 'Share the Screen, Shape the Future'," said Goris Verburg.
The Swiss luxury watch manufacturer introduced the IWC Filmmaker Award years ago with the aim of recognizing exceptional achievements in the film industry. Feng Xiaogang, one of the most renowned Chinese film directors and often dubbed "the Chinese answer to Steven Spielberg", accepted the highly coveted award from IWC's Director of Marketing & Communication in honour of his impressive work. "Feng Xiaogang is known for his innovation and is credited with introducing a new model in Chinese cinema with his 'New Year's Celebration films'," said Goris Verburg, explaining IWC's choice. "Although he is known for making comedies, he is open to stories with a tragic background. His films on war, natural disasters and famine are good examples of this. Feng is one of the best known directors of mainstream cinema in China. It is a great honour for us to present him with this award."
Feng Xiaogang also received a Schaffhausen classic masterpiece – a Portuguese Automatic (Ref. IW500114) in stainless steel, with the engraving "For the Love of Cinema" on the reverse. This watch was meant to symbolize the fact that masterpieces in film and haute horlogerie have a lot in common and are the result of innovative technology, creativity and perfection. Last year's recipient of the award and a specially engraved watch was Zhang Yimou, the Chinese film director and choreographer of the Olympics opening ceremony in 2008.
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"For the Love of Cinema"
Ni Ni
Feng Xiaogang, Goris Verburg
Feng Xiaogang, Ni Ni, Zhou Xun, Liao Fan
Zhou Xun
Qi Qin
"For the Love of Cinema"
Chris Dodd, Olivia Xu
Feng Xiaogang
Chris Dodd, Feng Xiaogang
"For the Love of Cinema"
Xu Fan, Feng Xiaogang
Liao Fan
Mike Ellis, Benoit De Clerck, Chris Dodd, Goris Verburg
Zhang Liang
Ni Ni
Du Juan
Francis Ng
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Goris Verburg, Zhou Xun
Goris Verburg, Zhou Xun, Benoit De Clerck
Zhou Xun
To celebrate the brand's rich history and achievement in film, highlighting the excellence of craftsmanship that IWC watchmaking and the film industry both embody, the gala event continued with the spectacular drum performance from Beijing's Red Poppy Ladies Percussion. The first female percussion group in China impressed the audience with aesthetics, power and a technically perfect performance. In 2008, this group caused a sensation at the closing ceremony of the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. The glittering evening came to an end with a private concert featuring the acclaimed Taiwanese singer-songwriter Chyi Chin, who captivated the audience with his soothing voice. The pioneer of Chinese pop, who has won numerous awards, brought his talent to the IWC gala event and enthralled the appreciative guests with a few popular songs.
IWC Schaffhausen is renowned not only for its luxury watches, but also for its long-standing passion for cinema and partnerships with numerous other international film festivals, including the Dubai International Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival and Zurich Film Festival. The Swiss watch manufacturer maintains well-established relationships with Hollywood stars such as Kevin Spacey, Cate Blanchett, Ewan McGregor and Marc Forster, as well as Chinese actors like Francis Ng, Julian Cheung and Anita Yuen. The company has also already been involved with numerous unique film, theatre and photography projects with many of these Friends of the Brand.
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1994 Honda Accord • 200,000 miles
The widshield wiper motor is running fine, but noticed that wipers not moving, so we noticed that on trasmission ball/socket joint the white plastic "push lock on" cap was missing. The arm was slipping off the joint when moving. Bought ENTIRE transmission was the only to fix problem! What the. Swapped out old tranny for new one. Put wipers in OFF position and put on the wiper arms in down/ off position. When started wipers first time, the wipers did not move. After crap shooting on the problem, found that the only way wipers would "work" was to put wipers at 45 degree as the starting or off position, then turn on wipers for only one rotation and the wipers would move down to the bottom (the correct off position) and move up to the very top (as it should correctly do) and then go down and stop at the 45 degree angle position. That was one complete "cycle". So in order for wipers to work because of this misalignment, you would have to drive around in the sunny weather with your wipers at a 45 degree angle or 1/2 way position, right in front of your view, and if it would rain then you could turn on wipers and it would make the above cycle. Not good. I know it was mentioned that in the transmission that the arrow mark on the ball/socket joint should align up to mark. If that makes sense? Is this the problem or did I possibly install the tranmission wrong. Motor still works fine. No rain in forecast. : 0 Thanks Big Joe
November 15, 2013.
November 15, 2013.
The wiper motor should self park at the rest position, it sound like either a problem with the installation or a self park problem, have you disconnected the wiper motor from the regulator and cycled the motor and see where the reg hooks up? Can anything be misaligned when installed?
WOW! Thanks for the quick reply and interest in my ploblem. I must confess that my auto knowledge and vocabulary is very small, thus my need to seek an expert like you. Regarding the "regulator" and "reg hooks", I am somewhat confused with these word descriptions. I hope you are refering to the transmission and the bracket arms (the long metal arms) or the linkage arms (THE ARMS THAT ACTUALLY MOVE!) Are what you are refering to. If so, YES you have to disconnect the transmission from the motor to replace the old tranny with the new one. In doing so you have one major ball/soccket joint that connects the motor to the linkage arm. What connects these two parts is a metal piece that on one end has a ball sticking out and the other end is a hole for the bolt from the motor to go into, this metal is about 3 inches long and 2 inches wide. It has an arrow that aligns to the marking on the motor. To disassemble, you take off bolt, washer that connects the motor to tranny. Does this help?
There are 2 main components, the wiper motor and the regulator, the regulator is the set of metal rods that transmit the motion of the electric motor to the wiper arms, the set up is mount the electric motor and turn on then turn off at the switch and make sure that the motor self parks, that is returns to the same position every time you turn it off, then attach the wiper regulator to the motor with the arms in the rest or park position at the bottom of the screen, if this is done correctly the wipers will start and stop at the bottom of the screen, if not, the motor is out of faze or faulty.
TY. I really appreciate your help in clarifying how it should work. The park or rest position is what was tried several times, readjusting it everytime to see if it would operate correctly. The parts are all in working order. I guess my big question is: what is causing the wipers in the rest/park position to go in the DOWNWARD position for ahalf cycle then go UP to the very top (as it should) then come DOWN to rest/park at the halfway mark and NOT in the very bottom rest position? It sounds like something is off aligned. Why does it go down and not Up when it is turned on? Was I suppose to align something up like the arrow I mentioned and the marking? Thanks again.
You may have to try a different wiper motor, they just should not do this.
Nov 16, 2013.
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Costumes from the PBS hit drama 'Downton Abbey'' will be on exhibit at the Paine Art Center and Gardens in Oshkosh next summer.
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"Downton Abbey'' fans, this one's for you.
An exhibit of period costumes from the PBS hit show is headed to the Paine Art Center and Gardens in Oshkosh next summer.
"Dressing Downton: Changing Fashion for Changing Times'' premiers in early 2015 at the renowned Biltmore Estate in North Carolina before heading to the Paine, where it will be displayed throughout the rooms of the historic mansion.
It includes period costumes and a fashion overview from the British drama. The variety of ensembles for the Crawley family and their servants range from country tweeds and riding outfits to delicate afternoon dresses and lavish evening attire decorated with intricate embroidery, lace and beading.
The exhibit will be on view at the Paine from June 20 to Sept. 20, 2015. It will be the second venue to get a stop on a three-year tour.


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So it's early September and you just took your first elk with a bow! Chances are you are feeling pretty good at this point. You get all your trophy pictures taken and the adrenaline starts to wear off. Now you start to think about the massive chore at hand. You have your work cut out for you! This early in the fall, chances are it's going to be hot when you go to field dress your animal. One of the complications that hot weather brings forth is BUGS. They will land on you and your animal, lay eggs on the meat and bite the heck out of you. It is unpleasant to put it mildly. Here are a couple ways to help alleviate this complication.
First of all, you want to get the meat into game bags as soon as possible. One great way of keeping the bugs off your meat is to treat it with a mixture that repels insects. Yeah, yeah... I'm not talking about spraying your meat down with Off Bug Spray. I'm talking about something a little more edible. I have heard of guys sprinkling regular old black pepper on the meat to keep the bugs off. I have put lemon juice into a spray bottle and sprayed the meat and game bags down and it did seem to keep the flies off. They definitely wouldn't stay on it long enough to lay eggs. A variation of this method that I haven't used yet is to soak your game bags in lemon juice prior to going afield and letting it dry.
I know a guy who swears by bringing fly traps into the field to help deal with the problem. I guess if you were willing to bring one along a hornet trap could prove beneficial. The bees and wasps were the worst part of field dressing my bear. I was stung so many times that my hands looked like they were going to pop. Any of the ointments used for treating stinging insect bites would have been nice to have as well.
Lastly, I like to set up a diversion about 20 yards away from the animal. I take some gut contents and trim meat and put it inside of an open plastic bag away from the carcass. This serves to pull bugs away from you and over to the scraps. It seems to work since the bugs get what they want without being pestered by all the hard work you are doing to the carcass.
Insects are pretty darn unpleasant when it comes time to field dress your animal. Keep these tips in mind when it comes time to pull out the knives and game bags.
[1] http://www.biggamehunt.net/users/hawkeye270
[2] http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.biggamehunt.net%2Ftips%2Fkeeping-bugs-your-meat&linkname=Keeping%20Bugs%20Off%20Your%20Meat%20%7C%20Big%20Game%20Hunt
[3] http://www.biggamehunt.net/sections/Black_Bear
[4] http://www.biggamehunt.net/sections/Caribou
[5] http://www.biggamehunt.net/sections/Elk
[6] http://www.biggamehunt.net/sections/Moose
[7] http://www.biggamehunt.net/sections/Mountain_Goat
[8] http://www.biggamehunt.net/sections/Mule_Deer
[9] http://www.biggamehunt.net/sections/Pronghorn_Antelope
[10] http://www.biggamehunt.net/sections/Whitetail_Deer


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Art in the Streets T-ShirtsGraffiti // Monday, June 06, 2011
Saber, Revok, and Risk made these 3 t-shirts exclusively for Moca / Art In the Streets. Sex, Drugs, and Aerosol anyone?
DREAM: August 3, 1964—May 28, 2011Juxtapoz // Tuesday, May 31, 2011
As written by fellow graffiti artist, and friend, RISK: "DREAM was the epitome of everything I stand for; we shared the motto, 'On to the next, burn to the last.' He loved all aspects of graffiti, but chose to strip his work down to two colors. He didn't want anyone to be able to say he hid behind colors or characters. He wanted his pure style to show through—and it did. He was a true king."
Photos at Premiere Night: "Outside In: The Story of Art In the Streets" at Egyptian TheatreJuxtapoz // Thursday, May 26, 2011
Juxtapoz were esteemed guests at the premiere of Alex Stapleton's documentary, the Levis' presents, "Outside In: The Story of Art In the Streets" at Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood this past Tuesday evening. The film captured the making of the MOCA's "Art In the Streets "exhibition that opened last month in LA.
Opening Photos from "Blurring the Lines" at Corey Helford GalleryJuxtapoz // Wednesday, May 11, 2011
We just got opening night photos of the Roger Gastman curated Blurring the Lines: Crash, Freedom, and Risk at Corey Helford Galley in Culver City. The artists, and and curator, were in attendance.
In Progress: LEE's Mural at MOCAStreet Art // Tuesday, April 12, 2011
We have been following the progress of LEE's mural at MOCA's Art In the Streets all weekend, and yesterday evening finally took a few shots of the beautiful progress that he has been in making. LEE, our April 2011 subscriber cover artist and featured in the magazine, has been painting the large facade outside of the Geffen with PUSH and RISK, at least when we took these pictures. More after the jump . . .