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Thirty-one percent of moms sampled here proactively sought out brands they liked on Facebook and another 11% liked a brand after they saw that their friends had liked the it.

About two-thirds of moms (68%) don't mind having brands contact them through social media if they feel the content is relevant to them.

72% trust the content of a brand/product website, followed by third-party content on Facebook (68%) or articles (68%)

Overall, 59% of adult Facebook users had “liked” a brand as of April, up from 47% the previous September. Uptake among the oldest users appears to have been a major factor in this rise.

Typically, social media users report connecting with brands to get deals and discounts, as well as information about products and special offers.

affluent social media users tended to follow brands because of a preexisting affinity for them, and a desire to be kept informed.

How is TastiRewards, the company’s loyalty program that also rewards a user’s social networking participation with Tasti D-Lite, going?

Our customers love it. They like [that we're] making it simpler for them to send out messages, whether it’s Twitter, Foursquare, Facebook — to save them a step of having to check in on their smartphones. We’re hearing from them that they love doing it and also that they like getting the extra points, because they’re earning their free Tasti faster [as a result of using the social tie-ins].We’re hearing great things from our franchisees. They’re seeing the benefits of the TastiRewards program. They’re talking and tweeting about it and sharing information. It’s made us more of an “it” brand, where people want to be tweeting out to their friends or posting messages on their Facebook walls.We’ve gotten phenomenal exposure for the brand. We have literally millions of impressions of eyeballs that have seen tweets and messages through Facebook and Foursquare, that are getting exposed because their friends have connected their social accounts to TastiRewards.

What we’re seeing and hearing most is that people are using them for the nutritional information. You can pull up nutritional panels for all of our flavors. That’s been one of the most popular elements of the TastiPad.

C.O.R.E., which stands for customize, optimize, respond and empower -- a proprietary mission and framework.

"'R' is really that the interactive marketing organization needs to be actually responsive to address consumers' concerns in real time with people and technology," she said. "And it goes beyond customer service at this point. It's about the brand promise. If they like the spokesperson in your campaign, why can't they talk to them [just like the Man Your Man Could Smell Like in the Old Spice ads]?" Finally, she said, "'E' is the empower part for the interactive marketing team: Allow them to test new things."

. Never Stop Listening

1. Never Stop Listening

Listening is 50% of communication

#1: Martell Home Builders

Think outside the box, like Martell did by allowing their clients to see where their contractors were at all times while on the job and by giving access to photos of their homes being built.

#2: Zappos

While 89.7 percent of the U.S. population aged 18 to 64 have mobile phones, only 49.1 percent are using their phones to shop.

What really surprised me is how low “looking for coupons” fell in the activity hierarchy.  So many surveys preach that people use mobile for deals, deals, deals, but it looks like solid information is more important.

51% of shoppers are more likely to buy from a mobile-specific site but only 4.8% of retailers have them.

Ninety percent of those surveyed agreed that social media is important to their business. The report reveals that the self-employed (67%) and small business owners (66%) were more likely to strongly agree with this statement.

88% of all marketers found social media helps get them increased exposure. Additionally, 72% of those surveyed saw increased traffic and subscriptions as a result of social media.

Small business owners were more likely than all other groups (89.2% reporting benefits) to see increased exposure.

84 have corporate-run Facebook pages

Most brand pages offered new content or comments nearly every day (average of 24 posts per month) and actively responded to consumer questions (66 percent). They also actively solicited fan comments (82 percent). Additionally, many posted branded video content (not user generated) to their pages (88 percent).

only 39 percent soliciting photo submissions, 33 percent promoting contests, 39 percent posting polls and quizzes for fun, and an additional 32 percent posting surveys to gain consumer feedback.

Want to accumulate as many followers as possible? Then tweet a lot

But if your goal is to drive more traffic to your site, you should show a little more restraint;

It turns out that time is often the afternoons, when blogs and news sites are slower, and the weekend, when they’re all but asleep.

1. 93% of adult US Internet users are on Facebook. (source: BlogHer, April 2011) 2. One out of every eight minutes online is spent on Facebook. (source: ComScore, February 2011) 3. The average Facebook user spends more than 11 hours per month on Facebook. (sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics, June 2010 & Facebook Press Room, 2011) 4. Facebook is overtaking Google and Yahoo in total time spent online. (source: ComScore, August 2011) 5. Facebook has become the top choice for social sign-in. (source: Janrain, April 2011) 6. Facebook has become the preferred way to share content online, second only to email—for now. (source: Chadwick Martin Bailey, September 2010) 7. The average number of "likes" per post on a brand's Facebook page is 54. The average number of comments per post is 9. (source: Visibli, April 2011) 8. More than half of B2B marketers agree that Facebook is an effective marketing tool. (source: Outsell, December 2009) 9. More than half of small businesses agree that Facebook is beneficial to their business. (source: Ad-ology, November 2010) 10. More than 1/3 of marketers say Facebook is "critical" or "important" to their business. (source: HubSpot State of Inbound Marketing Report 2011) 11. The number of marketers who say Facebook is critical or important to their business has increased 83% in two years. (source: HubSpot State of Inbound Marketing Report 2011) 12. 67% of B2C and 41% of B2B companies that use Facebook for marketing have acquired a customer through this channel. (source: HubSpot State of Inbound Marketing Report 2011)

#1: It’s Not Personal, It’s Business

They certainly don’t need to be formal (in fact, usually they shouldn’t be) but they should always be professional.

post photos of events that involve other organizations.