Social media’s role in driving e-commerce sales has never been so great. As this infographic highlights 74% of consumers rely on social media when making their decisions to guide purchases. Many turn to companies social presence to research products and to learn more about the companies they could soon be doing business with. Along with sharing some great social / ecommerce stats the infographic shares some simple to follow steps to getting started on key social networks.
In this infographic we see how social sharing is evolving, in particular the huge growth of Pinterest who’s share of the social sharing landscape grew by 4% in the last quarter along with its dominance on Ecommerce. By contrast Facebook’s share of social sharing shrunk by 9%.
This infographic shows what happens in 60 seconds on some of the most popular domains/apps. Some stand out stats include the fact that in 60 seconds there are 278 thousand tweets, 20 million photo views on flickr, 2 million searches on Google and 72 hours of video uploaded to YouTube. Rising social stars such SnapChat and Pinterest feature as well with 104 thousand photos shared on SnapChat and 11,000 active users on Pinterest.
