INTERNET FUN FACTS FOR

THE NEW YEAR!

• The Google+ platform has 67 percent male users. • 91 of the Fortune 100 companies use LinkedIn for candidate searches. • While Twitter and Facebook tend to drive purchases of products people are already considering, Pinterest is more likely to drive spontaneous purchases. • An email that includes social sharing buttons drives click through rates by 158%.

• Blogging increases web traffic by 55% for brands. • Red images get more repins than blue images on Pinterest. • 80% of total Pinterest’s pins are repins. • Pinterest grabs 41% of the eCommerce traffic compared to Facebook’s 37% • While the average social shopper spends an average of $60 when coming from Facebook, she spends $140 when coming from Pinterest. • 30% of Americans get their news on Facebook.

• 78% of Facebook users are mobile-only. • Facebook’s share of “total Internet minutes spent” grew to 15.8 percent over the past year. • Visual data is processed 60,000 times faster by the brain than text. • There are more devices connected to the Internet than there are people on earth. • 40% of people spend more time socializing on social media than they do face-to-face.

Ingrid Gee, Internet Marketing Consultant. Blue Dress® Marketing, an Internet Marketing Company headquartered in Knoxville, TN. Internet Marketing Developed, Implemented and Managed to Full Circle! Organic Internet Search Engine Guru. Turn Key Internet Optimization Programs Placing You Everywhere and Anywhere You Need to Be Online® ingrid@bluedressinc.me 865-951-5887