www.globalchange.com Linkedin future of business online community or just a phase? Linkedin is the business version of FaceBook or MySpace and had 11 million executives signed up by June 2007. But does this business inline community really work? Most Linkedin users have less than 50 contacts and don’t use it much. Recruitment, sales, marketing, promotion — all possible but what will be the dominant purpose of Linkedin? Most contacts I’ve had are people wanting introductions — to other people they don’t seem to be able to get to any other way. Comment by Dr Patrick Dixon, futurist, leading authority on global trends and conference speaker.
Crisantos Hajibrahim served in the United States Marine Corps as a Communication Center Operator/Computer Systems Specialist (2542/4066) from 1996-2000. He was assigned to the Department of Defense Military Communication School, 29 Palms, California, and continued his Advanced Communication Training with Data Communication Platoon, 7th Communications Battalion, Okinawa, Japan. Crisantos was stationed at Camp Pendleton where he served as a Network Field Engineer. He was then assigned to J-6 Command Group 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade where he served the remainder of his enlistment as a member of the brigade’s elite communications staff in a command group operations communication center. Lance Corporal Hajibrahim deployed to Kenya in support of Operation Natural Fires. Upon completion of his enlistment from the Marine Corps, Crisantos was recruited by the Washington, DC based, Capital Area Internet Service, as a project manager located in Los Angeles. In December 2004, Crisantos set out to create his own successful information technology service company. VIRUSwoman, Inc., a Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise, specializes in providing small business, government, and corporate organizations with cost effective technology solutions. In 2007, Crisantos was awarded with the Aflac Entrepreneur Civic Award for his business and work with veterans. He was also featured in several magazines including Entrepreneur, Var-Business as well as a Google case study. Crisantos has been …
If you are on a small budget there are a lot of free ways you can use on the Internet to advertise your business. Yes that is right! You don’t have to pay anything and they are the same solutions that companies pay thousands of dollars to do. So if you have some time, you can get ready to generate your own traffic for free!
Content
First of all you need to make sure your web design has the right content. Your content should be unique and interesting to your audience. Give people something they are interested learning something that will bring them back for more. Your text needs the right keywords repeated in a certain density. Only use about 1 keyword for every 100 words. This will help with search engines for your ranking. Do not repeat the same keywords too much. Search engine could see it as spam!
Blogging
Blogging is a great starting point for free. There are many of free services on the web that allow you to publish a blog. If you already have your business web site then you can work the web design with the blog so it is a part of your site. When you write a blog be sure it is related to your business, then includes as much inbound links possible to your website.
Press Releases
Press Releases are another way to promote for your business, writing press releases about upcoming events and other big happenings. This way you can get the word out and create hype about the business. Press releases can be sent to media outlets like newspapers, radio stations, news stations, and such.
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