You may already know this, but it might have been a long time since you last moved. I can confirm that moving still sucks.
And I don’t mean moving homes, but moving basically anything. It’s an incredible drain on productivity (at least in the short run), not to mention the amazing amount of stress it puts on the mind and body.
Follow up on yesterday’s post, where do you start if you’re looking to get online?
Firstly, congratulations on making the big step – These are exciting times!
Next, listen to the Wall Street Journal. They have a good, albeit a bit confusing, article “A Web Presence Without A Website“. If you take out the confusing part (no website, but a blog site, etc.), the underlying goal is to get started somewhere.
Regardless of what you call it, you’ll have to start somewhere. My preference is to first walk through a single non-website/blog site activity:
Ok, you’ve taken the big leap. You have a presence on the Internet! Woo! Now what?
You’ll want to tell everyone that you have arrived. You have this great, terrific story and you want people to hear about it. They need to hear about it. Easy enough. You go out and sign up on:
Great! Now you start posting great content. About your products, your services, your ideas, your expertise. You might use some integration pieces to ensure this information flows out from your site to Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Meetup, FourSquare, Others. Bang. The word is out. You are here. Come get some.
Does the term “personal brand” leave you scratching your head? If so, don’t feel like you’re alone – it looks like there are plenty more folks looking for the same results you are (via Google)…
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