Mark Evans pointed out some interesting information from a recent Plaxo study. The contact aggregator looked at the average number of contacts across different careers and shared which had the most contacts.
The study, supported by anonymous, aggregated data from over 15 million Plaxo members, found that Talent Agents are by far the most connected, with an average of more than 628 contacts in their address books. Publicists rank second, with an average of 490 contacts. Publishers come in third place with 475 contacts. By comparison, the average Plaxo address book has 203 contacts, although it is not uncommon for individuals to use Plaxo to stay in touch with several thousand contacts.
Bloggers have an average of 267 contacts, beating journalists with 247 contacts.
I just checked my contacts and I have over 450, yet I’ve only shared about 100 with Plaxo, so not sure how accurate their numbers are.
How many contacts are in your address book?
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Bloggers have more connections than journalists « PR, Babies and All The Rest Says:
May 24th, 2007 at 11:06 am
[...] Bloggers have more connections than journalists Filed under: Andy Beal, Journalists, Bloggers — becki325 @ 3:06 pm Sorry, Andy, stole your title again, but you have such good stuff! Check out the recent survey via the MarketingPilgrim’s post today. [...]
Erik Says:
May 24th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Nice numbers Andy, I gotta work on my contacts list. Most are in my head and just reside as email addresses in my gmail “to” bar.
Go Bloggers!!!