Get your Social Media Presence on Steroids

Summary of Social Media Boost

Need instant traffic to your site or blog? Social media is here to help you accomplish just that.

Save time and instantly update your image on several sites. The secret to save time by focusing on just 1 site and instantly update 5 others or more.

Follow these 5 easy steps and secure a strong presence on the internet. The key, of course is consistency and perseverance.

Happy Media Socializing!

1. Write About You

Call it Bios, call it anything you want; just write it. Create a document in Word/WordPad or Notepad about yourself. This doesn’t mean that you need to copy and paste your resume. In a nut-shell here are some guidelines:

• Keep it short and sweet – somewhere between 600-700 words.
• Be concise but personal.
• Stay away from political, religious, gender or any other group affiliation beliefs. That will pigeon-hole you faster than you can spell “blog”.
• DO NOT TRY TO SELL ANYTHING – just be yourself
• Write from the heart and write well.
• Check punctuation and grammar.
• Have somebody else read the blurb and ask what don’t they like about it. You’ll get more constructive criticism than asking why or what they like.
• Rework your piece if necessary but make it solid and to the point.

2. Decide on Your Image

Find a good picture of yourself and crop it to size. Save it on your hard drive in different sizes so you can easily upload it on a variety of social media applications (i.e. FaceBook, MySpace, Twitter, etc.). Do not rely on their cropping features because you might end up with slightly blurry versions of the picture for your profile.

• The picture should be of you and not a group picture of you and your friends.
• Be professional and make sure your pic reflects that. No crazy avatar, “Superman” symbol or any of the childish stuff you find on teen sites.
• Remember – if you want to be taken seriously – put your best professional face forward.

Tips for getting the right picture:

• No complicated background
• No Hawaiian shirts or “eye-hurting” pieces of clothing
• If possible use a light blue background – any decent photographer will tell you that’s best to emphasize your features
• Use close-ups

3. Open 5 Social Media Accounts

Here’s a short list in order of power and impact upon your web presence:

• Twitter (www.twitter.com)
• FaceBook (www.facebook.com)
• YouTube (www.youtube.com)
• Digg (www.digg.com)
• LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

Note: Please do save your login and password information in a secure place. If possible do not use the same password for each application. This will come handy when you forget your password or your login name.

4. One Account that Controls Them All

Open an account with Ping (ping.fm) and control all your messages from there. Did you write a new article for your blog? Let everyone know by updating your ping.fm account. Made some changes to your site that could benefit everyone in your network? Let ping do all the updating for you.

Conclusion:

These are 4 easy steps where you can take your web presence and social media mastering to a new level. Be active and update your presence often and with meaningful stuff. Allow some time and you will see astonishing results.

People love positive things so B+!

 Claudiu Geanta is a serial entrepreneur and founder of Design by Satori Inc. & Satori CG Inc.. He helps businesses promote their presence on and off line. He is also an accomplished web designer, book writer and photographer. You can follow him on Twitter.
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