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One of the most essential aspects of branding is your presence. This will make or break you in your search for potential customers. Your presence tells people who you are and what you’re all about. One important part of branding is your online presence.
You’re online presence is becoming a major role in the branding world, which can open doors to potential customers or close them. Here are 5 online branding mistakes that will definitely close doors to potential customers:
1. Weak or lack of presence on social and professional networking sites.
Social and professional networking is a great way to market yourself and broaden your online presence.
2. Not constantly updating and refreshing your online presence.
Keeping stale and outdated content to your online presence will keep the door closed.
3. Being too general and not specific on what you have to offer.
Your online presence needs to be specific to the needs of potential customers.
4. A lack of focus and consistency.
Having a focus to your web presence is essential in opening the door to potential customers. Along with your focus, your presence needs to be carried throughout all of your branding to maintain consistency that will be recognizable to potential customers.
5. Not exploring or utilizing online resources.
Without exploring the potential of online resources, such as Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, and LinkedIn, your online presence will have a hard time being seen by potential customer.
Take these 5 online branding mistakes and turn them into 5 online branding strategies to successfully open doors to potential customer.
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Personal branding can get confusing and frustrating when you have multiple social media platforms to work in. Especially when each one has a different audience profile to work with. It also becomes tiresome trying to keep each one of your social media platforms current and up to date. The social media platforms that you use for casual acquaintance networking will contain different messages than those of your professional and job search networking profiles. Having all of these social media platforms can make personal brand messaging become unnecessarily complicated.
One way to avoid this social media platform crisis is joining the circle of Google+. Now there is a personal branding tool that can put social media networking into perspective by avoiding all the audience mix-up platform pitfalls. Google+ is just one social media platform that has been crafted to tailor the different messaging audiences, casual and professional, instead of going through multiple social media sites. This is achieved by creating circles to place your contacts in and specifying the type of relationship significance they have with you.
Google+ takes on a new level of social media networking by connecting and sharing on the web as in real life. With your personalized circles, you can share your thoughts, links and photos to the appropriate audience without going to a different social media platform for that specific messaging audience. Once you have your professional contacts grouped in a circle you can target a specific message to the appropriate professional networking group. The same goes for your casual contacts, once they are grouped in a circle you can send specific messages to them without going to your professional circle. What a better and more relaxed way to establish your personal branding by connecting to specific groups and communicate the appropriate message depending on the relationship.
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The email subject line is where it all begins. This is the first thing that readers will see that will determine whether or not your email will be read. The subject line is what attracts the readers attention to get them interested in reading your email. Remember that emails imply a special relationship with the reader to deliver insightful information. Having an effective email subject line will increase your credibility with readers and establish a trusting relationship with them.
The key to effective email subject lines is to incorporate valuable key points that will introduce your message to the reader. For instance, think of the subject line as having useful bits of information that will be delivered in the email. Let the reader know what to expect by clearly defining a specific subject line that is unique but to the point. Don’t get caught up in lengthy, sentence-like subject lines. If the reader has to spend more than a few seconds just to digest the subject line, than it will most likely be overlooked. Effective email subject lines are those that identify yourself, specific and to the point, unique, and incorporate the fundamentals of your message.
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Social Media Marketing is a great way to reach a wide variety of customers and prospects all over the world in just a short amount of time. With daily online activity increasing, what a better way to take part in this marketing opportunity of the social media world and utilize the most popular social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube, to start opening doors to your business. By implementing just a little of your time each week on these social media resources can go a long way for a small business budget.
Come up with a social media campaign that you can use to reach out to your current customers and to bring in new customers. Take advantage of marketing yourself with the social media tools out there. Keep your customers engaged with new products and services, especially throughout the holidays, by utilizing social media marketing. Establish an on going relationship with customers through these social media resources and help drive traffic to your site.
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They say that this is the year to learn code. With all of the online tutorials these days, it’s not hard to get started. A good resource for learning code that I have recently found online is from Codecademy.
Not only is Codecademy an easy way to learn how to code, but it’s interactive and fun too. You can keep track of your progress as you go, share it with your friends, and even learn with them. What a great way to learn code to get you started on the path to building great websites, games, and apps.
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eMarketing is a great way to reach all your customers and potential customers with a simple click of the button. What a great way to market your brand through the convenience of online communication methods, such as email, social media, blogs, and online videos. Connect your business around the world by starting an eMarketing strategy aimed to develop your brand identity, retain current business, and attract new business.
Start reaching out to potential consumers with eMarketing and introduce what you have to offer. Through online interaction, you will be able to dynamically provide an immediate impact and be adaptive to your target audience. Bring it all together with an eMarketing strategy that’s specific to your needs and that’s sure to equal a long term success with your customers.
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Inspiration is always good to come by now and again. For me, I like to find inspiration on the web. As a person of visual learning and understanding, I enjoy inspiration dealing with web design. It’s always reassuring to me to find well organized, visual appealing, interesting to look at websites.
In my search for inspiration I came across Six Revisions that list useful information for web developers and designers. I enjoyed looking at some vibrantly colored websites from their Design Showcase section, 30 Strikingly Vibrant Web Designs for Inspiration. It’s nice to see what’s out there and pick up some inspiration along the way.
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The world of visual communication is all around us. On the streets, inside and outside stores and buildings, on television, on the web, on reading materials, and where ever you look. It’s everywhere! It’s a part of life and I like it.
Visual communication is a way of demonstrating ideas that can eventually help to achieve goals. It’s a way of expressing creative and technical techniques to help us better understand ourselves and each other. It’s all about developing the appropriate look and feel that responds to the decision of communicating a development of visual styles, influences, and trends.
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HTML is now becoming more user friendly with the development of HTML5. With the cross-platform mobile applications, new features have been built to run on low-powered devices, such as smartphones and tablets. These new features integrate <video>, <audio>, <header> and <canvas> tags that now replace the <object> tags. This will allow for easier handling of multimedia and graphical components then what was currently being applied. Along with other new elements, such as <section>, <article>, <header> and <nav> tags, this will enrich the use of content and documents. The HTML5 video feature is becoming the new standard way to show videos online.
Although HTML5 is on the rise and is considered the next generation of HTML, it still is a work in progress. The rules for HTML5 have been set up to reduce the need for external plugins, offer better error handling, use less scripting, and be device independent. The improved features of HTML5 includes a canvas element for drawing, video and audio elements, better support for local offline storage, new content specific elements, and new form controls. In general, HTML5 is a better way to handle the internet today, with all the new elements to enhance the structure, drawing, media content, and form handling.
Tags: HTML5
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If you are interested in typography for the web like I am, then here are some useful bits of information to get started with. A good online resource for learning about web typography is at Nice Web Type. Here you can see how web typography is being used and learn a little more about some tools for web typesetting.
Do you ever wonder what fonts are being used on web pages? There is a tool called WhatFont that gets font information on the text being displayed within a web page. Another good resource is Web Font Specimen, where you can see how certain typefaces will look on the web.
Tags: Web Typography
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