Social media allows people to communicate and share information online through various platforms like blogs, forums, social networks, and video/photo sharing sites. The document recommends that businesses should engage with social media to meet people and promote their brand, as traditional advertising is less effective while user-generated content and opinions shared on social media are highly trusted. It concludes that social media is growing rapidly and businesses should start participating or risk losing ground to competitors.

6. YouTube has over 100,000,000 videos submitted by people just like you.

7. Blogger has more than 200,000,000 blogs started and updated by people just like you.

9. The way we communicate has changed. Before we yelled and screamed about our products in hopes of getting one person to listen and buy.

11. The average person is exposed to more than 3,000 ads per day Less than 14% of people trust advertising But 78% of people trust other consumers. The new way to make sales is with communication.

12. Stealth persuasion, selling to your client without them knowing they’ve been sold to. 34 % of people post their opinion about a product or brand on their blog 36% of people place higher marks for a company that has a blog. 32% of people trust bloggers thoughts and opinions

13. Social Media is just getting started and is about to become a lot bigger. It’s time to get started or watch your competition pass you by.