Social Networking In's And Out's
Social Networking has become one of the fastest growing methods to reach out to potential customers and prospects within our industry. Gone are the days of hotel meeting and passing flyers out at the mall. Instead, have your prospects or customers find you -- where they are looking!
Websites like MySpace.com and Hubpages.com allow anyone with computer access and a little imagination to place a message in the places where millions are congregating. You don't have a MySpace profile yet? You will after you finish that video. Want to know more about HubPages and how you can get paid to post articles that talk to your prospects? It's all here.
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Creating A MySpace.com Page
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MySpace.com is home to more than 100 million folks, just like you. They have discovered the fun of being able to connect with others of like interests, sharing video's and blogs, passing around slide shows that show off vacation trips or products they offer.
Although MySpace offers a lot, a lot of care has gone into making it user friendly. You don't have to be scared to create a "web-presence" that extends your message, even if you don't have a domain name and a hosting account. MySpace makes it easy. This video makes it even easier.
Add A Slide Show To Your MySpace Profile
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To dress up your MySpace profile, you can add slide shows of photos (or any digital images). Here are the basics on how to sign up for a free Slide.com account and create your first slide show. Slide.com has options to create a single slide show, and share it across multiple platforms like MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Friendster and a dozen other social networking sites, at the click of a button.
You can add music, backgrounds and set options for how the captions appear. There are lots of options to play with, so get bold and experiment.
Edit Your MySpace Profile
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It's time to start really putting your personality into your MySpace page with colors, backgrounds, images and font choices. This video explores where you can edit your profile, tools you can use and third party options that have pre-built "themes" you can select from. This video is a little long, but covers a lot of information. I am working on a breakdown into smaller bite sized pieces, so check back often.
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Updating Your MySpace Profile Photo
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In the MySpace community, every time you post a comment on someone's page, send a message, or request a friendship, your photo is being displayed.
You can update the photo any time, as many times as you want.
This video walks you through uploading a new photo, and setting it as the default image to use. GIF's made a great profile photo because they allow you to display more than one image at a time. In other words, more marketing space!
Find Friends On MySpace
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You got your profile all tricked out, so now it's time to invite people to be your friend and come see what you did!
With more than 211 million (yes, million) people in the MySpace community, there are tons of people (that's metric tons!) to connect with.
Interested in something or somewhere in particular? There are options to find people based on criteria you set. It's a lot of fun to see who has a MySpace page and lives within 5 miles of your zip code!
Find and Embed Video on MySpace (and Comments)
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Video enhances your message, demonstrates your point, entertains and provokes. There are dozens of ways to use video to enhance your marketing message or just entertain your MySpace visitors.
This video covers methods to find and embed video onto your MySpace page, add to comments that you leave for others or even embed and send in messages to other MySpacer's.
Create A HubPages Account And Build Your First "Hub"
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HubPages is another free-to-use social networking site that allows you to publish articles, ad's, posts, ramblings, photo's, or whatever you want (within reason, obviously there are some restrictions).
When you are trying to get web visitors to go to one of your sites, this place helps. One of the reason's is that Google indexes this site hourly, so any new content you add, shows up almost immediately in the search results.
This video will have you up and running in less than 30 minutes.
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