Does your business use social media in its daily operations? If it doesn't, then your company should seriously reconsider its marketing policies. Websitegrader has modified its algorythm to rely more on social media  as a website grading tool. Hubspot, the company that provides this free grading tool, understands that businesses that use social media to reach customers have a greater ability to attract clients than ever before.

Companies that create blog articles and promote the articles through Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin have a marketing edge over companies that rely only on traditional marketing.

With the current decline in print advertising and the astonishing growth of online social media sites, companies that hang on to antiquated marketing tactics will either fade away or have to play catch up to competitors that are already adopting social media as a part of their marketing strategy.

Some astonishing facts about social media marketing:

• 50% of Facebook users log into the site each day
• Twitter has over 15 million active users
• Twitter will process almost 10 billion tweets in 2010
• LinkedIn has about 25 million professionals in the United States alone
• 70% of bloggers are organically talking about brands on their blog
• 38% of bloggers post brand or product reviews without encouragement from the companies