Modernizing the Patient Experience in Reproductive Medicine: Part 3- Facebook

First let me tell you some facts that you may or may not know. I am pretty sure if you are reading this it just might be that you saw my blog post link on my own Facebook or Twitter feed and so you already know all about what I am going to share...or not...read on and see! ;-)

Facebook Facts and Statistics

1. Worldwide, Total number of Monthly Active Users: 2 billion.
2. Total number of Mobile Monthly Active Users: 1.66 billion.
3. Total number of Desktop Daily Active Users: 1.18 billion.
4. Total number of Mobile Daily Active Users: 1.57 billion.
5. The gender split on Facebook is 46% men and 54% women.
6. One in five page views in the United States occurs on Facebook.
7. More than 83% of daily active users are outside the US and Canada.
8. The Facebook like button has been pressed 1.13 trillion times.
9. The average time spent on Facebook per visit is 20 minutes making the average monthly time spent to 600 hours.
10. At its current growth rate, Facebook acquires about 8 users per second. That’s 7,246 people every 15 minutes.
11. 75% of all men and 83% of all women who use the internet can be reached via Facebook.
12. Every 60 seconds, this is what happens on Facebook: 3,000,000 items are shared, 243,000 images are uploaded and 3,125,000 likes are generated.
13. Currently, Facebook is available in 101 languages.
14. Any two people on Facebook are separated by an average of 57 degrees of separation.
15. Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp collectively process about 60 billion messages a day,3 times the number of normal SMSes sent globally.
16. An average Facebook user has 155 friends.
17. 87% of online users of age 18-29 are on Facebook.
18. 56% of online Seniors aged 65+ are on Facebook and 63% are between age 50-64.
19. About 66% of Facebook users turn to the platform for news.
20. As reported at the end of Q1, Facebook’s revenue stands at $8.03 billion, at a 49% increase year-on-year.
21. 80% of Facebook’s revenue comes from ads, and 20% from virtual games.
22. 65 million businesses now have Facebook pages.
23. Nearly one-third of Facebook users (32 percent) engage with brands regularly.
24. 42% of marketers report that Facebook is critical or important to their business.
25. 42% of customer service responses from brands on Facebook happen within the first 60 minutes.
26. 70% marketers claimed that they use Facebook to acquire new customers, while 47% have said that the social network was their top influence for purchases.

With some of these numbers you might now see why you should really give due respect to what this free networking service can do for you and your business if you manage to keep up with it all. And that is not so hard to do!

Below are a few tips on how to use Facebook to your best advantage.

●        Create a professional Facebook page for your Practice

●        Select a business category from the drop-down menu such as “Health/Medical/Pharm.”

●        Create an interesting profile, photos (office, staff, etc.)

●        Advertise your new profile by sending it to all your co-workers and professional friends

●        Make sure you add links to your website, You Tube, LinkedIN, Twitter and blog

●        Remember to update and post several times per week

Do you have more to add? Please write down your own tips in the comment section! 

 [ FB Fact Source: Zephoria, Drumup, Wikipedia, Omnicoreagency]