Brands That Ignore Social Media Risk Losing Customers, Respect, Says Study [INFOGRAPHIC]
Brands that ignore social media or become inactive on platforms such as Twitter and Facebook risk losing existing and potential customers, reveals a new study from UK firm Kiss Public Relations.
More than half (51 percent) of respondents to the Kiss Social Media Interaction Survey agreed that if a brand is not present or not active with its social media it would reflect negatively on the company.
The survey also noted that 44 percent of people have bought something as a direct result of a recommendation on a social platform, and that mobile (54 percent) was now the most popular way to access these channels, ahead of desktop computer (35 percent) and tablet (11 percent).
Facebook (45 percent) was the preferred social platform of those polled, ahead of Twitter (26 percent) and LinkedIn (24 percent).
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