Saturday, August 22, 2015

Why we need to know about eBay

     The 2013 World Economic Forum Enabling Trade report identifies that the use of technology can reduce many of the burdens that small businesses contend with when selling overseas and other borders as much as 60-80%.  The internet has allowed all businesses, big or small to reach global customers.  EBay relates that over 95% of sellers in their platform engage in exporting.    The World Bank data shows that only 15% of exporters of 3 years ago are still exporting, while eBay’s sellers, 74% that were exporting in 2011 are still exporting.

     There are:

~ 157 million active buyers worldwide that use EBay

~ $ 20.1 billion successfully closed transactions in Q2 of 2015

~ 25 million sellers in the marketplace

~ 190 countries have eBay apps

~the eBay app has been downloaded 279 million times

~2014 gross merchandise volume was $83 billion

Source: ebay.inc

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Sunday, August 9, 2015

Twitter quick facts and training


Twitter quick facts and training

     According to 2015 Social Media Marketing Industry Report that is published by Social Media Examiner, the top two benefits of social media are increased exposure and increased traffic.  Twitter is the number 2 platform used by marketers at 79% of marketers using. This is also the number 2 platform used by marketers with 1-5 years marketing experience.  Sixty-six percent of marketers plan to increase their marketing time on Twitter. Fifty-eight percent of marketers surveyed voiced the need to learn more about Twitter. Thirty-one percent voiced that they wanted to increase their use of Twitter ads.   

            According to The State of Social Marketing 2015 report, there are 302,000,000 active users that log into Twitter each month.  Ninety-eight percent of the Top 100 Global Brands are present on Twitter.  There are 500 million tweets per day. Periscope has increased the value of the network as well.  Many tune into Twitter first to find out about current events.

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Saturday, August 1, 2015

Social media quick facts for marketers


     The 2015 social media marketing report that is published by Social Media Examiner identifies that 66% of marketers plan to increase their use of social media this year.  The most popular sites are Twitter, You tube and LinkedIn.  Although 93% of marketers use Facebook, 68% want to learn more about it and 62% plan on increasing their use of Facebook.  Although 57% of marketers use video already, 72% want to learn more about video marketing.  Only 10% of marketers use podcast, but 43% want to know more about it.  Facebook and LinkedIn were identified as the two most important social networks for marketers. Most marketers identified that they do not feel that their Facebook marketing is effective. At least 91% want to know the most effective social tactics and the best way to engage their audiences.  The number one problem identified (92%) is which tactics work the best. Locating the best customers and prospects is a concern for 87% of marketers and they feel they need guidance in this area.  Marketers had problems identifying which tools are best, (87%).
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