How Small Businesses Are Using Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC] Ross | September 28th, 2011

Social media gives small businesses a platform to amplify their voice and visibility among prospective customers. For many small businesses, this is a rich opportunity, as you can see in the following infographic – a look at social media use by small businesses (click image for full size version).

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Anonymous

great article …thanks, that was inspiration
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Witnword

Can you explain the last part of your image demographics? Its clear that some use one thing over the other… but WHAT exactly do the two color bars connect too here. Before that point there was no question what the infographic was portraying. I got to that point and started hunting for clues as to what these small business owners were using to attain these results.
Anonymous

Glorious data here. This interesting post made me smile. Possibly should you throw in a few pictures it would make the entire thing extra interesting. Anyway, in my language, there usually are not much good supply like this
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http://twitter.com/rosskimbarovsky Ross Kimbarovsky

So sorry (looks like we should have added a small legend there) – the last part compares data for 2009 (brown line) to 2010 (blue line).
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http://www.facebook.com/karen.kefauver Karen Kefauver

This code didn’t work when pasted on blogger - Crowdsourced Logo and Graphic Design by crowdSPRING
http://twitter.com/rosskimbarovsky Ross Kimbarovsky

Karen, does Blogger give you the option to paste HTML (is there an Edit HTML tab)? In WordPress for example, it’s a separate tab when drafting a post – to make sure that the HTML renders properly.

Here’s a page that might help you: http://francois.schnell.free.fr/tools/BloggerPaste/BloggerPaste.html

Also, please check to make sure what you tried to paste was accurate. What you pasted here in your comment is not. It should be:

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Great info graphic. Social media power has been recognized as influential force for effective promotion of a business. A business can become part of other a community that is built around some particular business type. Social media strategy either builds a brand image or destroys the identity if not utilized properly……

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Luis Fernandez

Hi great info, super easy to understand. I’m writing a paper on this topic and I will like to know the sources of this demographics. how did you get all this numbers?
http://www.facebook.com/clinton.buchanan Clinton Buchanan

Thank you for this graphic, it is very descriptive and I think it could help small business owners understand the importance of social media and bringing in revenue. I am doing some research on this topic and I am posting my findings and links on a blog http://sboproject.wordpress.com/ if anyone would like to help add to the comments and links to help out the small business owner understand the importance of the web and social media. Feel free to suggest businesses, resources, links, research, etc. that are geared in helping a small business get into the internet realm better!
http://twitter.com/RajniMobileSEO Rajni Mobile SEO

Small business owners have limited budget to promote their product or services. But, they can use free social media platform to promote their services locally. This is a great demographics of local social media marketing.
http://twitter.com/RajniMobileSEO Rajni Mobile SEO

Small business owners have limited budget to promote their product or services. But, they can use free social media platform to promote their services locally. This is a great demographics of local social media marketing.
Anonymous

I too had a hard time understanding the difference between the brown and the blue. The first time you reference 2009 and 2010 is under the header “Social Media Growth;” you could perhaps assign the two colors to the two words at that point, in lieu of a legend. The other thing that’s not clear, though, is trying to figure out if brown and blue represent 2009 and 2010 every time they’re used – for example in the two-toned Facebook and Twitter logos under the “Social Media Results” header.
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With the amount of real social media accounts and participants increasing, businesses would really take advantage of this so that they can connect with their customers with one of the most used channels on the Internet.

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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1443360113 Shannon Traughber

I would also like to know what your sources are, as I am writing a paper about this also.
http://twitter.com/rosskimbarovsky Ross Kimbarovsky

Look at the links at the bottom of the infographic, in a section called “SOURCES”.
http://twitter.com/MariahHumphries mariah humphries

Great infographic! Majority of my clientele is from social media and my business would probably be non-existent without it. I am going to use this on my resume site. Easy to read. Easy to understand. Well done!
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I’d love to use this on my WordPress blog but I can’t get the code to work…?

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