Many people see Twitter as a waste of time. However, Twitter is extremely useful in growing your business or your freelance career. There are many potential benefits to using Twitter. Free Advertising Twitter can ban accounts that it considers spam. However, that does not prevent you from using Twitter to do a reasonable amount of [...]

LinkedIn is a valuable social and professional networking site that has already helped thousands of users to further their careers. However, as with everything in life, there are certain rules and guidelines which should be followed when using LinkedIn. Do: Be honest and professional. Everything on your profile should be true and in no way [...]

As a small business owner or a freelancer, you’re always on the lookout for new and inexpensive ways to promote your business. One of the cheapest and most useful means available is to create a Facebook fan page. A fan page is similar to a personal Facebook profile, only it is for a company, product, [...]

There are an ever growing number of social media sites and social networking has become ingrained into modern life. Social media is crucial to the success and failure of many small businesses and freelancers. Even though most people are at least somewhat familiar with social media, there are certain things every small business and freelancer [...]

Do you want to take advantage of the opportunities offered by LinkedIn but think you just don’t have the time? Think again. It only takes fifteen to twenty minutes a day to be an active member of the LinkedIn community and keep your name and business out there. Before you begin, make sure that you [...]

So you are on LinkedIn, now you just need to get past all the buzz words.  My hope is that by providing a short explanation of each of these terms it will allow you to speed up your success curve with LinkedIn. So here they are: 1st Degree, 2nd Degree and 3rd Degree ·         1st [...]