Avoiding Pitfalls of Social Networking
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Many entrepreneurs are involved in several personal and business for many purposes. But these forums, even personal ones, not only generate a status for you personally, but can reflect on your business as well.
Many people will google someone’s name to find information on them before associating with them or even before doing business with them.
Yes, what you write may be on a personal forum on the web and of a personal nature that does not pertain to your business, but that doesn’t stop it from coming up in someone’s or a business’ search engine and allowing them to read what ever it may be about.
So to avoid any possible pitfalls and make sure you keep your content on personal forums of a professional manner. Also, when adding any pictures make sure it’s a picture that you feel comfortable with. A good rule of thumb: if you don’t want your grandmother to view it, then don’t post it.
It’s important for PR purposes to utilize social networking sites, but it’s just as important to be smart about how you utilize them.
Women's Clothes on March 4th, 2009 7:54 am
People often forget that once you post something up on the net, it pretty much sticks around. So yes, I’d sgree, you should be very careful what you post up if you are running a business online.
Meeting rooms on March 24th, 2009 7:07 am
Just like most newspapers, a post can last in one’s memory as long as it exist online. We should put useful contest related to visitors as this is what brings them back for more.
Hotel Price Search Engine on March 24th, 2009 8:26 am
Unfortunately many people still believe social media is separate from the real life and they can post anything without anybody noticing it. I usually Google the person before doing business with them.
Online Shopping on August 31st, 2009 9:07 pm
Great points raised here and I completely agree – business and personal pages on such pages should be split and I do think that we give more than enough time to such sites without getting much back as it is.:D
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