Saturday, January 11, 2014

Simple ways to increase your professional brand

Regardless of your business, your Internet presence is one of the most important avenues for establishing your professional brand.
Here are some simple, easy to accomplish tips that can be started right now:
1.    Start right now by making a comment on this post or asking a question about this post.
2.    Introduce yourself, your practice or your business for free, right now.
3.    Every time you post anything on the Internet, it is permanent. Therefore, make all of your comments positive or at least not contentious.
4.    Join as many groups as possible on Linked in and participate at least twice each week. You can join up to 50 groups.
5.    Ask questions on marketing, professional or technical questions and share what you know about the questions posed by others.
6.    Demonstrate by your actions that you are knowledgeable about your product, service or brand.
7.    Invite others to join your linked in network.
8.    Every week, go to Google and check your presence on the Internet by simply writing your name and service or product i.e., George Anderson, anger management, or emotional intelligence or coaching for “disruptive physicians”. You can do the same on Bing and Yahoo.
9.    Start today to give yourself a chance for success.