Thursday 29 September 2016

Pages with Maximum Likes on Facebook!

Facebook is one the major players when it comes to the social networking sites however let’s see who are the major players when it comes to Facebook. Facebook pages are not confined to any certain area. We have companies, celebrities, games, communities and so many other things facebook pages are based on.
Here we have a list of top 10 Facebook pages liked by masses the most starting from the number one to ten.

Facebook for every phone

1
263,709,611 Likes
+488,227 Daily Growth
+3,422,923 Weekly Growth

Facebook

2
93,352,978 Likes
+27,022 Daily Growth
+197,869 Weekly Growth

YouTube

3
75,563,817 Likes
+26,523 Daily Growth
+172,263 Weekly Growth


Rihanna

4
73,251,317 Likes
+50,245 Daily Growth
+401,499 Weekly Growth

Eminem

5
72,492,832 Likes
+55,636 Daily Growth
+378,637 Weekly Growth

Texas HoldEm Poker

6
70,342,930 Likes
-1,480 Daily Growth
-14,875 Weekly Growth

Coca-Cola

7
68,634,653 Likes
+20,264 Daily Growth
+345,324 Weekly Growth

Shakira

8
66,287,365 Likes
+43,272 Daily Growth
+285,229 Weekly Growth

The Simpsons

9
65,447,137 Likes
+17,085 Daily Growth
+117,971 Weekly Growth

Harry Potter

10
63,121,005 Likes
+23,913 Daily Growth
+187,817 Weekly Growth




Pages with Maximum Likes on Facebook | DSIM

These were the top ten most liked pages on Facebook. Companies can utilize this data to their advantage by finding out how the owners of these pages are conducting things , how are they dealing with the customers, what ways are they following to increase awareness about them among the people through facebook and so on.

Wednesday 28 September 2016

Top 10 Most Followed People on Twitter

Here we have compiled a list of top 10 most followed people on Twitter.

Justin Bieber

1
44,095,743 Followers
23369 Tweets

Katy Perry

2
42,130,957 Followers
4,941 Tweets

Lady Gaga

3
40,032,516 Followers
3,141 Tweets


Barack Obama

4
36,142,346 Followers
9,929 Tweets

Taylor Swift

5
33,540,326 Followers
1,919 Tweets

Rihanna

6
31,460,930 Followers
8,306 Tweets

Britney Spears

7
31,444,233 Followers
2,546 Tweets

Justin Timberlake

8
25,256,587 Followers
1,760 Tweets

Jennifer Lopez

9
23,159,981 Followers
2,487 Tweets

Shakira

10
21,995,050 Followers
2,046 Tweets


Top 10 Most Followed People on Twitter | DSIM

Tuesday 27 September 2016

10 Interesting Facts about Social Media

Social media is a wonderful marketing tool that helps you in many ways some of which are generating awareness about your business in masses, improving your customer service and so on. Thousands of companies with the help of social media have increased their business outcome and have delivered real-time profits in a very short span of time.
Let’s take a fun peek into the world of social media and find out some of its incredible aspects that make it distinctive and effective.

Social Media improves results

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According to a recent study more than 62% of marketers from different fields have reported a positive change in their marketing campaigns and efforts after they began to use social media as a foundation of many of their campaigns.
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As a matter of fact, one user signs up with LinkedIn’s professional network every second of the day. The site is used by more than 60% of the people to find work, apply to work, or build their professional networks.

Millions of photos on Instagram

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As per a recent report, more than one billion photos were uploaded to Instagram in the year 2012. Not just that, everyday 300 million photos are uploaded to this platform making it a perfect platform for photographers, artists and fashion experts.


Small and Medium Businesses getting benefited

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Small and medium-sized businesses have started using various social media platforms in order to raise their sales revenue, expand their marketing efforts, and know more about their customers. About 34% of medium businesses are already using social media as a marketing tool whereas 27% of small businesses are joining in.

Mobiles makes it more happening

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About 161 million minutes a month are spent on mobile social media applications around the world. In fact as per a rumor, people have more mobile devices than toothbrushes.

Deals on Social Media

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We all love a great deal and social media happens to be a perfect place to find them. A recent research revealed that more than 67% of Facebook users like a company’s page in order to get a coupon offering 25% off whereas 28% share the love using their social media platforms.

Games to earn money

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Usually, you don’t expect good images to crop up in your mind if hear somebody participating in social media games. However, a recent study unveiled that more than 79% of people who participate in social media games have a college degree or better and 44% of them earn more than $50,00 a year. On top of it, more than half of the players are over 40 years old and almost 30% of them are married & have children.

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Almost one million twitter accounts are created and 340 millions tweets are posted daily. The year 2012 witnessed twitter to make more than $250 million in advertising revenue. Using Twitter can be a very useful and helpful asset to most companies.

Social media usage differences

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It is reported that women mostly use Pinterest while men mostly use Google+. Pinterest is an entertaining community on which you can share your ideas through images while with Google+ you have got more options for sharing your ideas such as images, videos, and articles.

10
One out of every seven minutes spent online is used to surf, comment, share and like pictures, posts and videos uploaded to facebook. In fact, you can triple the traffic to your website overnight if you can identify your audience on facebook and post things they are interested in.
These were 10 interesting facts about social media that you must know to use it to your advantage. There are many others facts like this. Do share with us if you have come across any.




10 Interesting Facts about Social Media | DSIM

Monday 26 September 2016

5 Facts about Twitter That You Did Not Know

Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that allows its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as “tweets”. Users on twitter ‘follow’ or subscribe to each other’s update and receive messages respectively. At present, Twitter is in the top 3 social networking sites in the world. Besides, like Facebook and Linked in, . However, there are certain facts and secrets related with twitter that you probably did not know.
Here are five most interesting and useful of them.

More you tweet , more followers you get

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A recent study revealed that if you post a concentrated number of tweets in a short time span, the follower growth may exceed 50%, which is more than expected. Tweeting more gets you more followers.

Tweets can be sent by means of a text message

2
It is quite apparent from its 140 character limit that is somewhat designed based on the texting restrictions of mobile SMS that twitter evolved with mobile in its blood. However, after it became embedded within Apple’s mobile operating system it has reached a tipping point that has kept on strengthening it as the most frequently used channel for breaking news and quick bytes of information. You can set up twitter to integrate with your texting and tweet using SMS. Not just that you also receive notifications in text message when somebody follows you, your tweet is retweeted or if somebody marks your tweet as favorite. However, if you don’t want to receive texts all the time you can turn off them respectively.

Tweets with media get about 3 to 4 times more engagement

3
When twitter was started, it happened to be mono-media but now has grown into a multi-media networking platform. Media takes in photos, videos and even slideshare that one can view within twitter. Moreover, tweets with multimedia get 300 to 400% more engagement than tweets without media.


Hashtags can augment engagement by almost 100%

4
According to a recent research by Twitter, hashtags can augment engagement by 100% for the user and if the user is associated with any organization then it increases engagement for the organization by almost 50%. It tends to increase the engagement by 2 times of what it actually was.

More you retweet , more followers you get

5
It was found in the study that user with above expected follower growth send 200% more retweets than those with below expected follower growth. So, it’s always good to use the retweet button as retweeting gets you more followers.




5 Facts about Twitter That You Did Not Know | DSIM

These were a few facts about twitter you might be unaware of and that you can use to your advantage. Besides, if you know some facts like this do share with us. We will be more than happy to know from you.

Sunday 25 September 2016

Things you should never do on LinkedIn

The social network most celebrated among the business people is believed to be linked in which has become an incredible tool to create new connections and to help job seekers. But do we all know how to use it the right way? Although there are a number of however, there could be something you might be practicing wrong and that you shouldn’t do on linked In.
Here we have compiled a few things you should never do on Linked In.

Carrying on with an incomplete profile

1
Whether you are searching for a job or looking to network through Linked In, a completely filled in profile assures you the success. Recruiters use keywords and titles while searching for a candidate and if your profile is well optimized according to the search engines, chances of you getting found go higher. However, if it is not the job that you are looking and simply networking on Linked In even then completing your profile helps people know more about you and remember you.

Adding connection just for the heck of enlarging the list

2
Quality matters more than quantity especially when it is about the social networking sites. Simply adding people to your list even if you don’t know them will only create an unnecessary swarm on your account while it is valuable to create a presence and add your contacts which are relevant. Avoid adding anyone to your account you are not familiar with or not looking to connect with them about a business deal opportunity.

Being Impersonal in your messages

3
Almost all of us never prefer to get those automated messages that come when you connect with someone. So, instead of using the automated messages, give a personal touch to your messages when you connect with someone and take it as an opportunity to start a conversation especially with somebody you are planning to do business with or connect with regarding a job. Try making your messages as personal and meaningful as possible.


Promoting business 24/7

4
Linked in helps you grow and maintain your network. It also helps businesses at the same time however businesses should take care that they aren’t solely promoting their product or service all the time. There are people even on linked in who constantly try to sell their product or service which seems very annoying at times. One can however make their business promotion campaign useful to their connections by posting relevant and useful information, blogs, articles and so on.

Missing an active presence

5
Setting up the account and then abandoning it for a few months won’t do any good in anyway. It’s not that you have to post something daily. Posting relevant content about your industry and interacting with other connections will create a positive image for you in the minds of recruiters. Hence, try posting and interacting with people and groups on Linked In. Try establishing yourself as a knowledgeable source.
These were a few things you should avoid doing on Linked In. Linked In is a wonderful platform for job seekers and businesses however if they use it appositely. So take care about the above mentioned mistakes that you should not do on linked In and get benefited by this social media outlet in a big way.


Things you should never do on LinkedIn | DSIM

Thursday 22 September 2016

5 Facebook Secrets Unveiled

Facebook with more than 800 million monthly active users has become one of the major players in the social media industry. If we talk about Facebook from a marketing perspective, it serves as an influential platform for building a community of brand proponents and enhancing word of mouth marketing. It is an increasingly significant asset for businesses to get found by and engage with potential customers on the web. However, there are certain facts and secrets related with Facebook that you probably did not know.
Here we have five facts about facebook that might be unknown to you or ignored by you and that you must know.

Facebook has a secret folder

1
Shocking! Right? Yes! Facebook has a secret folder for private messages hidden in your inbox. You can find this folder by opening your ‘messages’ and clicking on the ‘other’ tab next to ‘inbox’. Although it was intended to get rid of frustrating spam and unwanted messages from strangers but, most of the times it is actually full of job offers and messages from long-lost friends.

Facebook holds your private data

2
If you want to know how much Facebook knows about you then go ahead and click on your account settings and at the bottom of the ‘general account settings’ window click on ‘download a copy of your Facebook data’ and in few seconds you will get a report consisting everything you have shared from your pictures to your job history and to your chats. Is it not intimidating?

Facebook intends to control your phone

3
Facebook Home places your friends exactly at the front of your phone, with their status updates and photos straight away visible when you unlock the device. However, you can still use your apps and surf the web, but will have to exit Facebook first to get there.


Facebook is keenly observing you

4
If you are surfing the web and logged on to Facebok account at the same time, Facebbok maintains a track of every site you visit if they have a Like or share button no matter whether you are clicking on it or not . So if it bothers you, try logging out of Facebook while surfing the internet.

Your personal data is now searchable

5
Whatever you share on Facebook from your favorite food to your love life gets indexed by search engines like Google and is now searchable with Facebook Graph Search after the advent of Google’s real time search results. To confirm if it really happens go ahead and search ‘Friends who like Metallica’ and you will find the respective results.
This information was necessary to be put across. If in case these things bother you, you can take the preventive measures at least and stop them from happening if possible. Besides, if you know some facts like this do share with us. We will be more than happy to know from you.



5 Facebook Secrets Unveiled | DSIM

Wednesday 21 September 2016

6 Ways Social Media Helps You Get A Job!

It was 10 years back when very few people were aware with social media. Later on people gradually started using it for social networking and now look at its competence that it is being used for hiring people for jobs. This has let the job seekers to be active on various social media site and build their online presence. This is how they leverage their relationships and talents to get a job that guarantees them a career and not barely the capital. A recent report generated by Elance reveals that almost 40% of the young professionals are making use of social media to get jobs.
Which is why here we have six relevant ways how social media helps you get a job of your dreams.

By letting you connect to the company

1
Social media offers you an amazing platform to connect to the company you are looking to work for. This boosts the chances of you getting hired by them if you are already connected to them on any social networking site. While researching about the company on their social media pages try being interactive and respond to their updates it could be anything retweeting on twitter or liking their post on facebook, leaving a comment and so on. You never know who might be watching as these days many recruiters tend to find talent via social networking sites rather than finding them on the traditional job sites.

By offering data for your help

2
Almost a decade ago for an instance if you had to know about the company of your friend you had to put in a lot of effort to ask them and remember it. But now social media help you gather all such information just by a click of mouse and you really don’t need to mug them up even. Now you tend to have all the information on your fingertips. So if you are interested in working your friend’s company you would not need to go through big hassles in researching the details. This was just an example of how social media offers you an abundance of real time data that you can use to your advantage.

By offering Job Search Apps

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Social media offers a plethora of tools and applications through which you can search for job be it on your computer or the mobile. These applications allow you to see the companies near your current locations and the vacancies if they have any.


By getting you build online influence

4
Earlier approximately a decade ago, if you had mastered any of the hard skills you were sure to get a job. However gradually things changed and the situation now is that because of the very high competition you can’t make it until and unless you are good at some new set of skills such as communication, organization leadership etc. Not just that at present apart from being good at hard and soft skills you need to develop online influence as when two candidates two candidates are equally good at hard and soft skills the recruiter will consider their online influence to make a distinction.
As far as the online influence is concerned it is assessed by so many factors such as the number of connections you have, how influential are they, is your content getting shared , if yes then by how many people and so on. Besides, there are various sites that help you measure the online influence and make the task easier for the employers at the same time. The main reason behind employers considering the online influence is that it will always be better to hire somebody who is already well-known by their target audience. It is believed by them that the candidates with a better online influence can generate better results, bring more and more business to the company and market their brand better than those who do not possess a good online influence.

By letting you use multimedia instead of a paper resume

5
A recent study unveiled that the profiles on social and business networking sites tend to have taken the place of the traditional resume that we used to have. More and more people are getting inclined towards the digital media and using various creative techniques to promote themselves online. These tactics can really be very effective in taking hold of some better jobs. Besides, very few job hunters are investing time in these tactics so those with it stand out in the crowd and are shared widely. There are many channels through which you can promote your profile online such as slideshare.net, videos, websites etc.

By letting you appositely advertise yourself

6
Through various social media channels you can also advertise yourself to the companies or the people you want to work for. You can get this accomplished by many ways however four very common of them are through Google adwords, linked In ads, facebook social ads and blog advertisements. These are basically used by companies to advertise their businesses but you can also use them for job search. The takeaway here is that you must link your advertisement back to your website or your linked In profile in order to catch the recruiter’s attention. Create an advertisement that is precise and clearly elucidate your expertise.
These were a few ways by which social media helps you get a job. So follow these ways and find a job that guarantees you a career and not just pays you the money. It is a vast ocean of information and opportunities you just need to dive in and discover the one meant for you. Could be you are happy with the job you are in however if you are looking to switch take the help of social media to your advantage and get recruited in company of your dreams.


6 Ways Social Media Helps You Get A Job | DSIM