Inbound Statistics Slides Attract 1 Blogging Blogging Create long-lasting marketing assets by publishing blog articles optimized to get found and generate leads. • • • • • • • • • There are 31% more bloggers today than there were three years ago 46% of people read blogs more than once a day Most people read 5-10 blogs Nearly 40% of U.S. companies use blogs for marketing purposes Blog frequency impacts customer acquisition. 92% of companies who blogged multiple times a day acquired a customer through their blog 57% of marketers acquired customers from blogging Companies that blog 15+ per month get 5x more traffic than companies that don’t blog Companies that increase blogging from 3-5x/month to 6-8x/month almost double their leads An average company will see a 45% growth in traffic when increasing total blog articles from 11-20 to 21-50 Blogging Create long-lasting marketing assets by publishing blog articles optimized to get found and generate leads. IMPACT OF MONTHLY BLOG ARTICLES ON INBOUND TRAFFIC 600 500 400 TRAFFIC INDEX 300 200 100 0 MONTHLY BLOG POSTS Blogging Create long-lasting marketing assets by publishing blog articles optimized to get found and generate leads. IMPACT OF MONTHLY BLOG ARTICLES ON INBOUND LEADS 1200 1000 800 NEW LEADS 600 INDEX 400 200 0 MONTHLY BLOG POSTS 2 Social Media Social Media Publish and track messages across multiple platforms and accounts with suggested times for increasing reach. Monitor the social activity of your leads and customers. • The world is becoming more social: 4.6 average hours per week worldwide • 84% of B2B marketers use social media in some form • 59% of marketers are using social media for 6 hours or more each week • 83% of marketers indicate that social media is important for their business • Social media has a 100% higher lead-to-close rate than outbound marketing • Social media use in the U.S. has increased by 356% since 2006 Social Media: Facebook Publish and track messages across multiple platforms and accounts with suggested times for increasing reach. Monitor the social activity of your leads and customers. • 42% of marketers say Facebook is critical or important to their business • Companies that acquired customers from Facebook: B2C is 77% and B2B is 43% • 80% of U.S. social network users prefer to connect to brands through Facebook • An average company saw a 185% increase in traffic after reaching 1,000 Facebook likes Social Media: Facebook Publish and track messages across multiple platforms and accounts with suggested times for increasing reach. Monitor the social activity of your leads and customers. IMPACT OF COMPANY FACEBOOK REACH ON INBOUND TRAFFIC 1,400 1,200 1,000 TRAFFIC INDEX 800 600 400 200 - FACEBOOK LIKES Social Media: Google+ Publish and track messages across multiple platforms and accounts with suggested times for increasing reach. Monitor the social activity of your leads and customers. • As of April 2012, Google+ has 170 million active users • As of January 2012, American users spent an average of 3.3 minutes on Google+ • Websites using the +1 button generate 3.5x the Google+ visits than sites without the button • Over 40% of marketers report that Google+ is "useful to critical“ • Google+ is expected to attract 400 million users by the end of 2012 Social Media: Twitter Publish and track messages across multiple platforms and accounts with suggested times for increasing reach. Monitor the social activity of your leads and customers. • Companies with 51 to 100 followers generate 106% more traffic than those with fewer than 25 • 44% of marketers acquired customers from Twitter • More than ½ of active Twitter users follow companies, brands or products on social networks • 79% of U.S. Twitter users are more likely to recommend brands they follow • 67% of U.S. Twitter users are more likely to buy brands they follow • Companies that use Twitter average 2x more leads per month than those that do not Social Media: Twitter Publish and track messages across multiple platforms and accounts with suggested times for increasing reach. Monitor the social activity of your leads and customers. IMPACT OF COMPANY TWITTER REACH ON INBOUND TRAFFIC 800 700 600 500 TRAFFIC 400 INDEX 300 200 100 - TWITTER FOLLOWERS Social Media: Pinterest Publish and track messages across multiple platforms and accounts with suggested times for increasing reach. Monitor the social activity of your leads and customers. • Pinterest is the 3rd most popular social network in the U.S. in terms of traffic • As of February 2012, Pinterest had accumulated 10.4 million users • Pinterest is retaining and engaging users as much as 2-3x as efficiently as Twitter was at a similar time in their history • Daily Pinterest users have increased by more than 145% since the beginning of 2012 3 SEO SEO & Keywords Discover which keywords will bring the best organic traffic to your site and analyze your paid search campaigns. • 61% of global Internet users research products online • 44% of online shoppers begin by using a search engine • Worldwide, we conduct 131 billion searches per month on the web • 57% of TV viewers use the web simultaneously • 60% of all organic clicks go to the top three organic search results • 75% of users never scroll past the first page of search results • Companies that blog have 97% more inbound links • The average click-through rate for paid search in 2010 (worldwide) was 2%