Posts Tagged ‘blogging’

The three social media that you can use to advance your career are the Blog, Facebook and Twitter.

So before I share with you 10 Social Media tips – allow me to introduce you briefly to each of these three media.

1. Blogs

A Blog is a website usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary and descriptions. You can either have a Blog created by a web designer as a separate entity, or as part of an existing website, or you can set up your own at www.blogger.com . With 40,000 blogs in Australia and 130 million in the world, they are providing a powerful place to share information in text format, photos and even video. One of the effective ways to drive traffic to your Blog is to find other blogs or forums that relate to the industry within which you wish to launch your career, and start commenting. Find your niche and communicate. If you would like to design a blog that complements your brand talk to the team at www.oe-design.com.

2. Facebook

Facebook helps you to connect and share with the people in your life. With over 5 million users in Australia alone and growing, it can open up a large audience. The average user has 120 friends on their site. An interesting statistic is that more than half of Facebook users are outside college and the fastest growing demographic is those 35 years old and older. These could represent your future bosses.

3.Twitter

Twitter can advance your career by allowing you to access the leaders in your industry. Through using search.twitter.com you can identify your specific niche and begin to engage influencers. Don’t forget to use www.tinyurl.com as part of your brief posting strategy and drive traffic back to your Blog.

So when you create your Blog, your Facebook account and your Twitter account – what next?

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Before the arrival of the Internet, email communication and webinars, most people met face to face when doing business. But the world has changed.

Brandi Cummings of www.freedom800.com says “Communication today between seller and purchaser is not always assisted by words, voice inflection, facial expressions, body language and in their handshake.”

Much of today’s business transactions are being conducted without ever physically meeting. So how can we build trust in the Online World?

Here are some secrets that can help small businesses to earn the trust of potential clients in the online world.

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Here are some of my notes recorded at the recent seminar hosted by Terri Cooper of http://www.terricooper.com.au.

Google penetration in Australia is currently 93%.

Google penetration in the USA is currently 67%.

Although Blogger doesn’t attract as much traffic as YouTube, MySpace, and Facebook – people are drawn to those sites from blogs.

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