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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.

1 - Claim or Create a Google Places Page

2 - Verify Your Google Places Page

3 - Optimize Your Places Page

Within three months, his blog made it to the first page of Google when the phrase "Malibu real estate" was searched. Daily page views started to rise until he was averaging 300 a day. On days when a news aggregator picked up one of his posts, page views soared to as many as 8,000. But clicks aren't commission checks. The first phone call from someone reading the blog arrived within a year, and business soon followed. His most expensive listing or sale came last year from a Malibu resident. "She enjoyed reading my blog and wanted me to list her house at $14 million," Gardner said. The 14,000-square-foot Italian villa sits on 20 ocean-view acres. A Seattle-based blog reader recently gave Gardner the listing on her $8.5 million Malibu house. Another, Mark DiPaola, found an ocean-view home site in Malibu last year through Gardner. "When I started looking for an agent I went to Google and typed in 'Malibu Realtor,'" said DiPaola, the chief executive of CheckPoints, a mobile app that rewards shoppers. "The first or second time I saw the blog it was clear he knew the market."

Use the right blogging platform.

WordPress. It’s powerful, easy to learn and has plenty of SEO plugins that increase your chances of topping the search engine results.

Own your domain.

The Profile Picture—The Most Important Visual Element

The Profile Picture and the Photostrip Should Work Together

The Photostrip—Roll with the Randomness!

#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.

381,576,30 checkins were made in 2010. A checkin has been made in every single country in the world, plus space. North Korea was the last country to check in. The Rally to Restore Sanity on October 30 was the biggest event of the year, with 30,525 checkins made in Washington, D.C. that day. Food venues were the most popular checkin category in 2010; campuses were the least. MTV, Bravo, the History Channel, Zagat and VH1 were the most popular brand pages.

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)

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.