Here’s the results if you search for @yastech.

Taking into account that there are four of us in our group doing the same thing daily and cumulatively having the largest following on Twitter and Facebook, the results have been quite shocking and a little disheartening. Calculating the number of votes we get per day, it’s just over 100. Divided between four of us, that is 25 each. And seeing that I’m voting 5x for myself (one on each browser and one on my phone browser) each day, that’s 20 per day! Seeing that I have 31,815 followers on Twitter alone, that’s 0.06% of my followers that are actually voting (and that’s taking into account that people are voting only once!). Not to mention that I also got the infamous Gary Vaynerchuk to ask his 878,000+ followers to vote and my SEO friend, Dean B to sprinkle it through is network…which got us probably a couple dozen votes in total.

Emphasis mine.

While a karaoke contest isn’t exactly the greatest metric for follower support, it does provide an interesting data set to investigate how loyal your followers/fans are on social networks. As we’ve posted about in the past, visitors to our website from Facebook do seem more inclined to spend longer on your site than Twitter followers do but that doesn’t require any actual action step other than to leave a browser window open.

There’s an interesting discussion in the comments section of that post, including one comment from Erica that confirms what we’ve been seeing with our clients:

My largest asset is my email list. With ~4,000 people on it, it outperforms EVERY other method by thousands of times. Second is my blog’s RSS readership–though they don’t buy as much, they tend to engage.

But I can blast out an email to my list and get hundreds of click-throughs and replies in a matter of minutes. Don’t know what it is about email, but it really is effective, and at this point I think any online business without a list is doing itself a disservice.

Be sure to contact us if you have any questions about how your business could do a better job of engaging with your customers, including starting up an email newsletter.

And be sure to subscribe to our Email Newsletter or RSS feed.

So what do you think? Have you, as a consumer, changed your expectations of companies you purchase from in regards to their responsiveness? Are you frustrated if the store you buy from doesn’t have a Facebook, Twitter or even a web page that you can complain to or praise them on?

For the business owners out there — does your business have a way for your customers to engage with you? And more importantly perhaps — are you engaging with your customers in the social media arena that they are trying to engage with you in?

The conversation is going to happen whether you’re there or not. It’s certainly better to be a part of it and attempt to make a positive out of a potential negative.

Be sure to contact us if you have any questions about how your business could do a better job of engaging with your customers. And be sure to subscribe to our Email Newsletter or RSS feed.

Through it all we’ve listed a ton of local events and connected people with happenings around Saskatoon and Regina. From concerts at Worldfest to Rib Night at Bridges, there’s been an event for anyone and everyone who’s attending the World Juniors.

And while tonight’s gold medal game between Canada and the United States will signal the end of the World Juniors for 2010, we at YasTech wanted to continue building on the success of Juniors2010.ca in a relevant way for Saskatchewan.

Which is why we at YasTech are excited to announce TodayinSK.ca, an all new event listing site for Saskatchewan, focusing initially on the cities of Saskatoon and Regina.

For the time being TodayinSK.ca will continue to hold our coverage of the World Juniors to allow people to see pictures and comment on their experiences at the World Juniors. But in the coming weeks we will be transitioning TodayinSK.ca to focus on events happening in and around Saskatoon and Regina. So you can feel free to continue adding your events to TodayinSK.ca.

We look forward to covering future events for you with TodayinSK.ca as we’ve been doing on Juniors2010.ca.

Go Canada Go!

So just 63% of you updated your site within the last week or less — which is great. It’s important to remember that in order to keep people coming back to your site (and your brand) you need to have fresh content. Contact us to find out how to keep your website new and interesting if you’re not sure how to currently.

We promise not to make all the posts on this blog video clips, but these are just too interesting to not watch. It’s a great way to get up to speed on what’s happening with technology and social media, even if you don’t have time to be involved with it yourself.

If you want to find out more about harnessing the power of social media for your business, contact us for more information.

Direct link to video

Via @dejong on twitter.

What do you think? Is your business ready for the already underway social media revolution?

If you want to find out more about harnessing the power of social media for your business, contact us for more information.

Direct link to video

• RSS Feed for our blog
• 140 characters (or less) of YasTech wisdom gets posted on Twitter
• Our Facebook page
• Photos we take around YasTech HQ we uplaod to Flickr

There are a lot of different social media sites out there and so far we’re choosing to participate on the main ones — which sites are you on that we’re not and why? Leave us a comment with a link to where you feed your social media addiction!