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How to use online media to network and promote you and your business.

Guest post by: Tom Gosche

Article Overview: A Consistent Message is the Key to your online marketing!

How to use online media to network and promote you and your business.

Make sure each of your online profile’s have CONSISTENT messages. IF you are in business for yourself, you can put some business information on there. Keep it consistent with your marketing message and keep it short. Put your website in your profile, so someone can learn more about you and our company. I have been tracking the referrals to my website for the last month, and have found at least once a day, someone from Facebook AND Linked In, click through to my site. This increases the exposure I have already received from being on the first page of search engines!

In most cases you are combining your business and personal information, so you may want to be careful of what info to put the AND who sees what. The following is an excerpt of what a Business Associate friend of mine, Jeremy Treister, has written in his Quick Tips Newsletter. This newsletter is very informative on computer and online issues. Jeremy says "Many people hesitate to join Facebook because they’re understandably concerned about mingling their professional and their private lives. Fortunately, Facebook is so highly customizable that you can rest assured your potential employers will never see your goofy Halloween photos, and your friends will never be treated to your reflections on business topics."

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