My Profile + Your Profile = Our Profile “Share Who You Are With the World + Profile”

18. August 2009 by admin.

You may think why should I let people into my profile, my personal business?  Well, if you’re into marketing, this is part of your business; you only have a few minutes of your audience’s time to make an impression.

Sharing your personal interests, hobbies, favorite books and movies etc, might hook you up with someone who shares the same interests. This could lead to the next step of sharing your interests with them; which then requires you to take the time to spend some time communicating with them.

But you say, I am so busy trying to find ways to social network and finding new ways to market. This can actually get addicting, the trying to find new ways to market. You become so wrapped up into researching information and saving it to your bookmarks or delicious account that you don’t have any time to apply it. You mean I have to actually do some of this stuff I am reading. Yes, in order for networking to occur, you have to participate and then maintain those profile relationships. Those new relationships could very well be the connections to your future business. Take the time to invest your time, wisely.

You are probably wondering how to go about this social networking thing. Word Press seems to be a popular blogging platform for promoting your social profiles. Below are 10 widget plugins to help you get started.  Hook up with your graphic designer, try to practice these new social skills for a year and be consistent. Pick one, two, three, or even try them all, you have nothing to loose.

1. DandyID Services.-supports 330 social networks. If you’re the social butterfly,  start here. Sign up, and explore, then configure your sidebar widget.
2. Social Media Page – supports 140 social networks. Post your profile with a simple code. Creating links instead of icons.
3. Social profile – 14 social networks, includes a small intro text about you.
4. FriendFeed Activity Widget – popular lifestreaming service. Just sign into an account and select the number of events to display.  Option to hide twitter replies.
5. Lifestream - Use as a sidebar widget or as a page or post of its own. Hide twitter replies option.
6. Lifestream.fm – Largest number of social networking services that you can stream onto your site. This one shares the love and helps your commenters promote their profiles.    
7. Retaggr- more than 180 social networks to choose from. Commenters need to have a retaggr account in order to share their profile.
8. Social Profiles – good for multi-authored blogs. People can write for your blog by promoting their social profiles along with their comments.
9. WP Twittip ID – universal plug in. With an extra line of code in your comments template file, you can add a field for users to enter their Twitter username, which is automatically linked to their twitter URL, alongside their name and comment. This plugin lets you promote both your blog posts and your social media profiles.
10. Tweetmeme – Creates a button so that readers can easily retweet your blog posts. Can be set up to display on a RSS feed.

Time is a part of our fundamental nature and you have to decide wisely how you will invest in it.

Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bry

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