One of the surest ways to bring traffic to your site and increase your personal branding, is to become an active contributing member of a forum. Forums are an online discussion site and is a form of Social Media Marketing. Most of the time when you hear about this form of marketing, sites such as Facebook or Digg come to mind. However, forums are another powerful tool for business owners. Forums are useful not only for sales, but in also obtaining different perspectives from others in your industry. It takes time to build a credible profile, and get some personal branding and name recognition within a forum.
Fully complete your online profile and other information on the directories and anywhere else you’re promoting your blog so that readers have enough information to help them decide whether they want to read your work. Make sure you include your blog URL on every online profile that you have set up.
Money May, you’re responsible for this mess too. You knew it would come to this while watching Ray J’s feet swinging at the piano as he performed a live concert for you in your den.
If you would like to increase your search engine traffic through back links, make use of Social Media. Sites like Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook allow users to share your links on their own page with a simple click of a button. Many Twitter and Facebook pages have high page rankings, and being linked to from them can significantly increase the page rank of your own site.
Get in the Know on the Basic Lingo – Know the lingos used in Twitter. Here are a few samples: @reply, (DM) Direct Message, Hashtag, Retweet(RT), Follower, Tweet, and trending topics. You may view the Twitter description where a full list of Twitter lingo, and other related terms can be found.
Not asking for help – As mentioned, there are multiple tasks you are responsible for when running the online home business. If you are in need of help, don’t be afraid to ask for some. If you don’t ask for help all that will happen is that you will get stressed out and end up making poor decisions. Online discussion forums are a great place to get your questions answered although avoid spending too much time there as outlined in step 2.
I was busily spamming away with carefully placed hashtags in my tweets, when my twitter account wouldn’t load right after I sent one. I finally refreshed the page and ta da! A red box came up with “Account Suspended” in the middle of the page.
Every business manager needs all the time she can get to accomplish the goals of her business. Anything she does which helps her to accomplish more within a shorter time frame is usually very helpful on the long run. Doing things smartly and intelligently is the key here because time waits for no one. When customers want a service, they want it real fast. Anyone who can deliver to them at the shortest possible time usually gets more of their patronage. That is the one who will get the largest market share and subsequent profits, a scenario every smart business manager should always crave for.