Queen Bee Media helps FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ reach new heights.
Queen Bee Media is pleased to announce that it has partnered with FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ, A non-profit organization that provides bicycles to children in need. The partnership will help FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ reach new heights to provide more bicycles to children who need them.
Currently, they are now in 15 markets and growing and that’s where we come in. We are going to help them achieve their online digital goals of providing bikes to kids all over the country.
FB4k.org are passionate about the wellbeing of children
FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ brings communities together to sustainably furnish bikes to kids-in-need, providing a pathway to health, happiness, and opportunity.
Free Bikes 4 Kidz Impact by 2025
Bikes collected >>1.2M (from 110 locations)
Bikes given away >> 1.0M
Metal kept out of landfills
17,000 tons (about 34 Boeing 747s)
Rubber kept out of landfills
1,300 tons (about 6 billion rubber bands)
Volunteers engaged
516,000 (about 10 Fortune 500 companies)
Volunteer hours donated
2.9M (about $35M of minimum-wage labor)
Terry Esau, founder of FB4K, chats with Kelly and Ryan about the Free Bikes 4 Kidz organization.
By 2025 FB4K’s proven, scalable model will put a kid on a bike for less than the cost of two Starbucks Tall coffees.
Queen Bee Media is committed to helping nonprofit organizations
Queen Bee Media is committed to helping nonprofit organizations thrive and reach their goals, and this partnership is further proof of that commitment.
Thank you for considering Queen Bee Media as your digital-go-to source for all things online marketing!
To learn more about how you can become involved, visit FB4K.org
Let’s all join together to help the youth.
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How real estate agents can benefit from the power of video – it’s not just for entertainment anymore.
Video is one of the most powerful tools in real estate marketing that can be used to engage with buyers and potential customers on their level. If you haven’t jump onto this bandwagon, then I’m telling ya -it’s time for an upgrade!
When luxury clients meet with a high end real estate agent, they are looking for more than just service. Furthermore, they expect the best products and services available on earth to be at their disposal in order make sure that everything about their transaction goes smoothly from start-to finish. This works especially well for the Commercial Real Estate market as well.
Real Estate Video Tours are an easy way to give your listings a voice. They’re instantly sharable, highly affordable, and today’s buyers prefer them to plain photos. Real Estate Video Tours allow prospective buyers to move through your listing scene by scene, with each video tailored to show off your listing’s best features — with a voice!
We Make It Simple
Your listings needs an immersive, creative and professional real estate video tour with a professional voiceover to showcase all its features in high definition.
• Give a voice to your listing without lifting a finger
• Impress every buyer with high quality tours tailored specifically for them
• Get more views, shares and inquiries from prospective buyers via YouTube/Facebook/Vimeo/Instagram
• Promote listings in innovative ways that buyers prefer
• Stand out from your competition
We write professional scripts based on the details of your luxury property, so when customers watch your videos there will be no surprises or awkward pauses because everything has been planned out ahead of time–including music tailored solely according-to each individual client’s tastes (whether male/female). Our professional voiceover talent know what they are doing!
Our video tours help you get seen by more people, from anywhere in the world.
Our Real Estate Video Tours are a great way to allow potential buyers the ability to “walk-through” the luxury home in the comfort of their present home. People selling homes in this class expect viewing requests from a wide range of real estate agents and buyers. In addition, they may be coming from across the state or around the world.
Your video tour gives professional prospective buyers a chance to see your luxury home or property even when they are not able to come out for a showing in person. It allows them to get an idea of what the house looks like and helps you stand out from other listings. An effective real estate video will engage viewers and give enticing details about your listing that’s hard to find elsewhere online or in print materials.
Videos get the highest engagement, but only when they are smartly-produced.
Video is quickly becoming the preferred way that buyers want to view homes for sale because it’s engaging, efficient and provides more information than any other type of marketing tactic available today.
Real estate agents should be doing everything they can to position their luxury listings as “high-end” and modern technology mixed.
With the power of video, you can showcase your property to a broader audience and captivate potential buyers with an immersive experience. There is no better time than now for you to start using video in your marketing strategy! You’ve been wanting more high-end listings and we’re here to help get that done. If this sounds like something you want on board with then go ahead and check out our real estate videos tour right now. Visit our YouTube Channel.
In conclusion, what other kinds of real estate marketing do you think would be effective for real estate agents? What would make them stand out from their competition? We look forward to your comments.
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The WordPress User Statistics are in. Guess what? You’re not alone! There are over 60 million websites using the WordPress platform, and the numbers continue to grow. With statistics like that, you know you can’t go wrong with a WordPress website.
Our post will show you 10 awesome WordPress user statistics. We explain the top 10 most popular reasons why people use it for their business (big or small) or personal blog.
WordPress powers 39.6% of the internet in 2021, a growth of nearly 5% from 35% in 2020, and a 4% rise from the year before.
If you count only the CMS-built sites, then 64.1% of them are WordPress – 4% growth from 2020.
Over 400 million people visit WordPress sites each month.
In 2016, nearly 118 billion words were published on WordPress
But WordPress is not only for blogging – nearly 28% of all e-commerce goes through WooCommerce
281 new WooCommerce shops appear on average every day
661 WordPress sites also pop up daily
WordPress.org offers over 50,000 plugins and over 4,100 GPL-licensed themes
In 2018, the non-English WordPress downloads were more than the English ones
WordPress has been around since 2003
WordPress is, by far, the most popular content management system in the world and one of the most popular blogging platforms. These WordPress statistics prove that its popularity is driven not only by its relatively low costs and simplicity but also by factors like the wide choice of plugins and themes, availability of language packs, security, and SEO-friendliness. With such a powerful platform behind it – including over 60% market share for CMSs alone – you may be wondering how to get started with this tool?
The quickest way to do so would be through our website development service (powered by Queen Bee Media!), which offers everything from domain registration to web hosting all wrapped up into an easy-to-use interface.
Our Video Tours allows you to add a voice to your real estate listings.
Video is one of the most powerful tools available to real estate agents when it comes to marketing listings. Video doesn’t just give more information about your properties, it can help set you apart from other agents in your market and better connect with prospective clients. Our Video Tours are a chance for you to be creative while also delivering value to your audience.
Did you know that property listings with video receive 403% more interest than those without? 85 percent of purchasers and sellers want to deal with an agent who uses video in their marketing. Our Real Estate Video Tours are the perfect solution for your property. Video Tours for Real Estate let you highlight the real estate property’s finest features or convey any necessary information. Our Video Tours also include elements that make the neighborhood desirable to purchasers.
Always make sure your viewers are fully immersed. Attract their attention and provide them with video.
Video tours for real estate also offer the advantage of not having to make several different advertisements. Video Tours provide viewers with an experience that they can’t get from other media.
As you know, Video is a powerful medium and it’s taking over in many ways. Video just seems natural in a world where we have Youtube, Netflix etc… Video helps.
Online activity is higher for listings with video tours. More buyers are making offers without ever visiting a home or building in person. Buyers want video tours as the standard for home purchases online.
Video marketing is now a reality, so it’s time to raise the bar. Here are some video statistics to get you thinking.
61% of marketers see video as a & very important or extremely important part of their marketing strategy. Source: Biteable
30% of marketers see video as a more important part of their strategy than their website. Source: Biteable
YouTube has the best ROI for video content (35%), followed by Facebook (26%) and Instagram (18%). Source: Biteable
Video is here to stay. Even Mark Zuckerberg believes video is a critical part of our future. The sheer volume of video content online is growing exponentially. Don’t fall behind the competition. It’s time to raise your game, because it’s all a game anyhow. Let’s have a look at some video tours right now.
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Social media has come a long way in its short 20-year history. Many thought it might just be a fad, but while many sites have come and gone, the concept of social media remains strong and has become part of the fabric of our global society.
Social media has become even more important over the past year as the Coronavirus pandemic has raged and forced us to rely on digital technologies more than ever, particularly to remain connected with friends and family.
However, while social media’s popularity and significance are not all that surprising, there are lots of other things about social media that will shock you. We’ve compiled all the stats we could find about social media in 2021 that will knock your socks off and remind us all just how important this technology has become.
2021 Social Media Usage
As of January 2021, there were more than 3.96 billion social media users in the world. Considering there are around 7 billion people globally, more than half of the global population is currently using social media in one form or another. Since there are approximately 4.5 billion internet users worldwide, we can also say that around 80 percent of web users also use social media.
In the U.S., this percentage is much higher. Consider these findings from Statista:
Young People LOVE Social Media
It seems natural. After all, today’s youth have been born into a digital world, so it’s not surprising young people are the ones most likely to adopt social media.
However, most of us also know that older people are hip to the social media game too. But have they taken over from young people?
Not yet, but usage is up across the board. Here’s some more data from Pew:
Some more interesting facts:
Social media use is roughly equivalent across race, gender, income level, as well as community (urban/suburban).
79 percent of college graduates use at least one social media site, whereas just 60 percent of those with a high school degree or less use social networks.
2021 Daily Social Media Usage
Most people like to use social media at least once a day, but which networks are the most likely to use daily? The most recent data from Pew, which took a look at usage from 2019, found the following breakdown for U.S. social media use by platform.
As you can see, Facebook and Instagram remain the leaders in terms of market penetration.
The most significant changes on this list come from Snapchat and TikTok. Just a year ago, Snapchat was used by around 60 percent of people. This number has fallen to 30 percent, mainly as Instagram has made changes to mimic what Snapchat offered.
It’s moves like this that have helped spur the many lawsuits designed to break up Facebook and its social media empire, a story we should all watch closely in 2021.
On the other hand, Tik Tok is exploding. It would not have made it onto this list just a year ago, but it has become a sensation that is taking the social media world by storm.
Only time will tell if TikTok will suffer a similar fate, but it is the rising start of the social media world for now.
Twitter has nowhere near the market penetration it once had, but it has also kept a firm handle on its niche market. It’s unlikely it will be going anywhere anytime soon, though stranger things have happened.
Social Media and the Covid-19 Pandemic
The outbreak of COVID-19 has changed so much about the world in which we live. Since many of these changes have meant relying on the internet for more than we used to, it should come as no surprise that social media use has changed considerably during this past year.
Here are some surprising stats about social media and the pandemic:
Other Social Media Platforms
We’ve spent a lot of time talking about Facebook, but there are other social media platforms. Indeed, Facebook will probably provide you with the best bang for your buck, but don’t close the door to other options.
400 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.
There are around 1.3 billion people who use YouTube regularly.
TrueView, YouTube’s proprietary advertising, can be highly effective for brands. Viewers who watched a TrueView ad to the end were 23 times more likely to complete the action you want them to complete, and they are still ten times more likely even if they don’t watch the whole ad.
60 percent of people find out about new products on Instagram.
2021 TikTok Statistics
Tik Tok has more than 600 million active users, up from just under 30 million less than two years ago. It is now one of the most popular social media sites in the world.
Around 13 million new videos get uploaded to TikTok every single day.
After launching as primarily a Chinese social media site, 42 percent of TikTok’s monthly revenue now comes from the U.S.
TikTok is very popular among teens, and 14 percent of young adult internet users in the U.S. are on Tik Tok.
TikTok has high engagement levels; 56 percent of TikTok users open the app at least once a day.
2021 LinkedIn Statistics
45 percent of people earning more than 75k a year use LinkedIn.
The Pew Study referenced above showed that a larger percentage of people used YouTube than Facebook, suggesting that YouTube may be making a run for the top spot.
However, when we look a little more closely at how people are using each network, it becomes quite clear that Facebook is still the dominant force in the market.
Facebook Is The Most Popular
From the previously mentioned Pew Report, here is a breakdown of the popularity of different sites based on the percentage of the population that uses them:
Facebook reaches approximately 97 percent of people between the ages of 18-34, and each person spends more than 1,000 minutes a month on the site.
Its closest competitor is Instagram (which it owns), but Instagram reaches just a little less than 65 percent of people aged 18-34, and each user only spends around 350 minutes on the site per month.
Snapchat only reaches 38 percent of people, but they spend more time using it than Instagram, spending around 400 minutes per month on the site/app. However, research indicates that Snapchat is growing in terms of reach and usage, so it will be interesting to see how things change moving forward.
LinkedIn only captures about 52 percent of people between ages 18 and 34, but most don’t spend any time on the site at all.
Pinterest gets about 40 percent of people, and they spend just a little less than 200 minutes on the site each month.
This particular study looked at people aged 18-34 in the United States. Still, other studies that look at the larger population have found similar results regarding Facebook’s dominance of the social media space.
Here’s some data that breaks down where people are spending their time when they’re on social media:
The big shocker on this list is TikTok, which has rapidly become the social media site where people spend most of their time. If we consider that YouTube is next, we can start to see a pattern: sites heavy on video tend to keep people engaged for longer.
The big shocker on this list is TikTok, which has rapidly become the social media site where people spend most of their time. If we consider that YouTube is next, we can start to see a pattern: sites heavy on video tend to keep people engaged for longer.
Nevertheless, TikTok is growing rapidly in terms of the number of users it has and how much time people are spending on the site. Perhaps Facebook, which has traditionally dominated both of these categories, should start looking over its shoulder. Or, not so fast??
Facebook Keeps People Coming Back
The following data, which comes from the Forrester Data Digest, shows that the people using Facebook tend to be heavy users. This means that there are lots of opportunities to interact with people on Facebook.
In a given month, 63 percent of people will access the Facebook app. They go onto the app an average of 15 days per month, and they will access it on average five times per day.
Instagram’s penetration (the amount of people who access the app) is just 27 percent. Those users access the app on average 11 times per month, and the average daily access is six times per day.
Twitter’s penetration is 22 percent, with people accessing the site 7.5 times per month and five times per day.
These numbers may not be as jarring, but they help reinforce this idea: Facebook is still on top of the social media world, and it will take a near miracle for that to change.
The Takeaway
With so many social media options to choose from, it’s easy to get distracted. Instagram indeed offers you the chance to showcase great photos and look cool, and it’s also true that Snapchat is rapidly becoming more popular, especially among young people.
Yet, don’t let this distract you from the following truth: Facebook is still on top.
As a result, businesses should still be spending most of their time trying to boost reach and engagement on social media by using Facebook.
Social Media Around the World in 2021
Globally, there were 3.96 billion social media users in 2021, which is 18 percent higher than the year before, according to We Are Social.
Also, from We Are Social, the places where social media use is growing the fastest are:
Saudi Arabia (32 percent)
India (31 percent)
Indonesia (23 percent)
Ghana (22 percent)
South Africa (20 percent)
Vietnam (20 percent)
Conclusion
Overall, the social media landscape is constantly changing. However, there are a couple of constants:
Social media is growing around the world. Exactly how that growth will look remains to be seen, but we can expect more from social networks moving forward.
Facebook is still the dominant force. This may change, but it’s not likely in the immediate future.
It will be interesting to see how 2021 continues to shape the world of social media. It’s been a wild ride until now, so we can only expect more of the same.
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Just when you thought you were getting the hang of digital marketing, it feels like everybody around you has started talking about blockchain. Wait a second—isn’t blockchain the technology behind Bitcoin? How on earth does that factor into digital marketing? Quite heavily, as it turns out—or at least, that’s what most experts are predicting will soon be the case. If you’re confused, don’t worry: you aren’t alone. Many digital marketing professionals are as yet uncertain of how blockchain technology will impact their line of work. That’s why we’re here to explain what blockchain is and how it’s probably going to change the nature of your job. Read on, and learn everything you need to know so that you can stay one step ahead of the competition when the time comes.
First of All, What is Blockchain Anyway?
Let’s start with the basics for the uninitiated. Blockchain is a term that gets thrown around with regards to Bitcoin so often that some people might think they’re synonymous. Not so. Blockchain isn’t the same as Bitcoin—as mentioned previously, it’s the technology upon which Bitcoin (and most other cryptocurrencies) are based. Here’s how it works:
Blockchain is basically a way to record transactions digitally. On the basis of that fact alone, you might not think it’s so different from electronic banking or a credit card e-statement, but wait—there’s more. Unlike other forms of digital recordkeeping, blockchain technology does not keep information in a centralized location such as a database hosted on a server bank. Instead, blockchain creates multiple copies of the record whenever it is updated and distributes those copies to numerous devices on a worldwide network.
What’s the advantage there? Simple: it’s all about security. Information kept on a single server can be compromised if you know where that server is and how to hack it. However, with blockchain technology, any false record or fraudulent activity can be identified by comparing the compromised information with the other existing copies. Since these copies are all stored on different devices in a massive network, it’s practically impossible to get them all.
How Does Marketing Relate to All This?
Here’s the takeaway for digital marketers: because blockchain offers security by verifying transaction details, it’s important for the cryptocurrencies that use it to safeguard the personal data of their users. As such, most cryptos (Bitcoin included) offer partial anonymity: you might have to create a Bitcoin address to use Bitcoin, but you don’t actually have to register it with your legal name or where you live. Because of this, transactions that use blockchain technology are practically always anonymous. When consumers are buying products and paying for services anonymously, marketers can’t analyze their shopping behavior to improve campaigns.
Fortunately, there’s a simple solution: just buy personal data directly from your existing customers. Start an opt-in program where you offer rewards or direct cash compensation in exchange for information you can use to create accurate buyer profiles. Don’t worry about the higher costs associated with buying data directly from your consumers, either—after all, you’ll be getting information from people who are already enthusiastic about your business, so the results will be much more valuable than the generic data marketers currently get from social media platforms.
Understanding the power blockchain has to change digital marketing will help you stay effective when cryptocurrencies become a normal way to pay for goods and services. If you’re going to accept Bitcoin as a form of payment (and there are many reasons why you should consider doing so), learning how to collect marketing data differently will be an essential part of your company’s continued success.
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