5 Facebook Tips

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1) With the new relaxed rules for cover images, be sure to include your business Website address and a Call to Action
2) Facebook Events is a great way to Invite your Followers to an Online or In Person Event or Meeting
3) Have you tried Sponsored Stories? It’s a great way to get certain posts more visibility on Facebook for just a few dollars.
4) Facebook Groups are a GREAT way to connect with like-minded people and to encourage open discussions, interactions and relationship building. Join or start one today.
5) Try a Facebook Contest or giveaway to increase your exposure and interest in your business.

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5 LinkedIn Tips

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1) Take the time to fill out your LinkedIn Profile in detail and use appropriate keywords in your Job Description, Summary and past positions. It will help you connect with the right people.
2) Always use a professional Photo on LinkedIn. This is a professional Network, and there are rarely any exceptions to this rule.
3) Make your profile interesting. Include quotes, your interests and post regular updates.
4) Groups are a great way to connect with like-minded and influential people. Find some and Join them today!
5) Look for and attend Events in your Area or online through LinkedIn Events. They could be very beneficial to your business and growth.

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Do You Know How Powerful YouTube Is?

YouTube is very important to any online business. Just look at these statistics!

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Blog Talk Radio Show – Did You Miss Yesterday’s Show? Listen Now

Now is the time to start Planning for 2013 – Listen to our show for ideas and suggestions.

Listen to internet radio with SOS 4 Your Business on Blog Talk Radio
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Why your Website would benefit from the WordPress Platform.

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The WordPress platform is easy to install, update, customize and Google loves WordPress Websites. WordPress has been downloaded 65 Million times!

It’s also 100% FREE to start your online venture with WordPress. It’s advised to purchase hosting though, and install your site on your own host. Host Gator has a very inexpensive package for only $6.36 per month   http://bit.ly/RE5GJa

There are so so…so….many plugins that are being developed and supported for the WordPress platform.  Many are free and some Premium Plug Ins are paid, and they give you the ability to customize your sites to achieve different looks, and feels.  The options are endless.

Learn how to easily set up your online WordPress Website here:Your Marketing VA

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3 Easy, EffectiveTraffic Tips You Can Use Right Away

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1)  Post on Popular Forums

Joining a forum that is on the same topic of your site is a great way to get free traffic. Once you have joined you can add your website address to your profile and your signature box. This way every time you post to the forum a link to your site will show.

Make sure that you post frequently and that you add value to the forum this way you and your site will be seen in a good light and you will receive more traffic. Keep in mind the more

you post the more your link will be seen.

I would just caution you to post informative answers to questions and join conversations that you can “add value” to.  It’s important to be friendly, helpful and respectful.

Here are the top 5 active online forums to get you started:

http://warriorforum.com

http://sitepoint.com/forums

http://forums.digitalpoint.com

http://seochat.com

http://searchenginewatch.com

 

2) Weekly Audio eMail Tip to your List

Record a weekly audio tip and email it to your list as well as add it to your website.  Make it under 5 minutes and include hot topics that would be of interest to your followers.  Post a link to it on your Facebook page. Be sure to Tweet about it as well as post to LinkedIn as a status update.  Make sure the content offers a real “doable” tip that your followers could do themselves.  Provide resources( a website link or free PDF etc.) and post those to the page on your site where the audio recordings reside.

3) Share a YouTube “How to Video”

Video sharing is wildly popular and you can use it to get a flood of targeted traffic to your website.

Do this by creating a short introduction or how to video and posting it in a social video sharing site like YouTube. Provide a few references to your site with your URL of course.

When you post your video be sure to use a catchy title, teasing description, and appropriate tags to make it easy for others to find. Then copy the code that video site provides you with and embed the link to your video on your site.  This will save your bandwidth and storage space because the video will be hosted on the video sharing site that you are using.

Another benefit of using a video sharing site is that they provide a “Send to Friend” feature for your video. This feature is a link that allows others to share your video with a friend

or hopefully more.

 

 

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Google Plus Demographics – Are you Utilizing Google + for your Business?

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Did you know the best times to Blog?

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Here’s Why You Should Be On You Tube Sooner than Later

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Video and Mobile are important Technologies for your

business to embrace in 2012 and 2013!

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The Importance of Quality Content

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Content can be defined as anything that is written and presented on the internet for the audience to read. Content can be of good as well as poor quality. Good quality content must have two main qualities:

  1. It should be user friendly to digest i.e. it should be able to please the audience.
  2. It should also be search engine friendly i.e. it should be able to gain good rankings in the search engines

Anyone who writes can never ignore the important role that the content plays in determining its fate.  It is the content that pulls the audience to your written content whereas, if the written content is of poor quality the opposite will likely occur.  So you can never take a risk of being careless about the quality of your content no matter if you are writing: an ebook, a blog post, or preparing a presentation or anything else.

A great deal of hard work and thinking is required to generate a piece of good quality content.  the most important objective for any writer is that the audience read and be interested in the content.  For instance the aim of a website owner includes gaining good rankings, having loyal readers and a good amount of traffic visiting the website.  All this can be gained by writing good quality content on the website.

Generating a high quality piece of work requires a decent amount of thoughts and creativity.  It requires a good deal of time to prepare the content that is going to be worth reading.  It is not something to be taken lightly. Serious harm can be done to your writing career if you fail to maintain good quality content on your website.  So, proper planning along with great input is required for this task.  Always keep in mind, “Good work will result in great rewards.”

Good quality content should provide solutions to any number of business problems as well as answer difficult questions for the business owners seeking your products and services.  Your content needs to be professional, attractive and at the same time simple as well, so that your audience can understand exactly what you want to convey.  Almost every business today having an online presence and therefore quality and well written content can attract potential customers and thus increase sales.

There are many tricks and tips to help you create good quality content,but we will discuss that in a future blog post.

 

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