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Need some juice for that client that isn't certain that social media is for them? This deck is great resource for you. I've taken the time to vet out what I see as key points for me as a marketer and as an entrepreneur. I hope this gives you some great metrics:

• 3/4 of United States Adults are online
• One third of US consumers spend 3 hours online every day
• FACT: Marketers are shifting their budgets away from “interruption”advertising
• Only 5% of marketers will invest less in earned media in 2011.  (Earned media = favorable publicity gained through promotional efforts other than advertising)
• FACT: Google is the newYellow Pages
• 46% of daily searches are for info on products or services
• 20% of monthly Google searches are for local businesses
• 75% of users never scroll past the first page of search results
• Thanks to the rise in social media, web-based email usage is on the decline, especially among younger generations.
• 61% of US marketers use social media to increase lead-generation
• There are152,000,000 blogs on the Internet. Since October 2010
• There are 31% more bloggers today than there were three years ago
• Most people read blogs more than once a day
• Companies that blog have 55% more website visitors
• Companies with 51+ blog articles experience a 77% lift
• Morning is the most popular time to read blogs
• 93% of US adult Internet users are on Facebook
• 1 out of every 8 minutes online is spent on Facebook
• Facebook has become the preferred way of sharing content, second only to email
• More than 1/3 of marketers say Facebook is “critical” " or “important” to their business
• 25% of Twitter accounts have no followers
• 40% of Twitter accounts have never sent a single tweet
• FACT: Twitter users are!young, smart, affluent, & tech-savvy
• More than 1/2 " of active Twitter users follow companies, brands or products on social networks
• 79% of US Twitter users are more likely to recommend brands they follow
• 67% of US Twitter users are more likely to buy brands they follow

Found anyother great resources for data? Here's a few more links of " data visualization" that I find helpful and often visually inspiring to me.

• Web Designer Depot
• Web Designer Ledger
• Flowing Data
• Inspired M
• Data Visualization Tools
• Cool Infographics
• GOOD Infographics
• Daily Infographics
• Six Revisions
• Now Sourcing
• Submit Infographics
• Column Five Media
• Flickr Gallery
• Fast Company
• Flare Visualization Tool
• Fast Company
• TED Talk Video

So have you be confronted with any MUST SEE infographics or data recently? I'd love to see what you have on tap. Give me a shout! If you found this post useful, or think it could help someone within your networks, please pass it on!