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You’ve finally embarked into the world of social media and have profiles on Facebook, LinkedIn & Twitter. Now what? You’ve got to get the word out! How do you promote your use of social media?  Follow these five tips and you will be well on your way to an enormous network of friends, family, and business associates.

1. Put it in your email signature
2. Blog about it
3. Use your profile to promote your other profiles.
4. Use a service like Retaggr, which allows you to create a web based profile card with a link to all of your social profiles.
5. Use it in conversation

Remember, in social media, you get what you put into it! The more you build and nurture your network, the more benefits you will be able to reap from them.

photo credit: Steve Rhodes

Gosh, I hate to be another one jumping on the Cuil-bashing train this morning, but it’s just too easy a target.

What is Cuil, you ask? Well, for a glowing review, see the New York Times. For something more sardonic, you can go here, here, or here.

Personally, I’m holding out for more information, and I welcome any competition to the realm of web search — it makes our job more fun and opens up new ways for our customers to reach their customers online.

And heck, I like the fact that we come up #2 for “Maine Web Design” :

… Though admittedly, coming up at #6 is The Freaky Bean Coffee House, which has much more to do with delicious handmade mocha grandes than HTML.

And even more laughably, at the bottom of the first page, maybe #12 or so (I do like how Cuil spins off from the traditional list of ten blue links), you see a link to the “Quoddy Loop–Lubec, Trescott & Whiting, Maine.” A fine, fine area of the state (in fact I went to the 2-room school house that’s mentioned in the by-line), but again… not really the cutting edge of web design.

So yeah, I’m in the same boat as the rest, skeptical of the launch but very open-minded about the future. Let’s just hope that it gets “Cuiler” in the future.

Wondering how to nurture sales leads using LinkedIn? Find out how to get your profile set up and up to speed in this week’s episode of SEO Audio.

SEO Audio Episode 42

So you’re living in your parent’s basement (it’s okay — it happens to the best some of us). You’re broke and spend your days eating cheese twists and watching Superbad over and over again. Your AIM handle is McLovinMeToo and your only hope at possible income is selling your prized vinyl record collection on eBay, including Young MC’s ‘Stone Cold Rhymin’ on yellow vinyl. Yeah that’s right! BIN!

But one day you decide to start a blog, and at first you blog about stuff you know, like movies and music, and you’re connecting with other movie fans. They start visiting your blog, they actually laugh at what you say. In fact they laugh so hard they ‘tweet’ about your post saying, “OMG LOL, Read this” with a link to your site. The traffic starts coming and suddenly you are propelled into the role of a surly, brutally honest internet movie review guy.

Next thing you know you are hired by one of the MAJOR search engine portals to review movies. You start hobnobbing with A List celebrities and some Z list reality stars who are trying to transition, but clearly I digress. Because amongst the masses you see a woman across the room at an industry event, she sees your press badge and instantly has dollar signs in her eyes while you smile and give her a wink, trying to figure out how to take her back to ‘your place’ without waking up the ‘rents. She thinks you’re kinda cute so she winks back and now your feeling really fine cause the girl is stacked. (Yes, you may have sold the album but the song lives on in your heart). You meet, fall in love, and get married…and then eventually move out of your parent’s house.

Don’t say it can’t be done!

If you want to learn more about how blogging can change YOUR life, tune into our webinar, “To Blog or Not to Blog“, today at 2:00 EST.