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30 day Challenge

Skype-enabled audio and video are already infiltrating many business settings, with users recording their Skype conversations and adding the recordings to their blogs as podcasts.

Skype - Is the best online conferencing tool for you to connect with others. It will work on Mac, PC and Linux, so whoever you have on your team will be able to use it too.
Handy Tip - Standard etiquette when using Skype. Sending someone a message to find out their availability prior to just calling them is always a good idea. Also, headsets are highly recommended!

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Get yourself prepped for the “Website Results in 30 days”. The following are a series of free profiles that you should set up. This will begin getting your site noticed by search engines. A couple of time saver ideas are to create a desktop folder with a photo of yourself or team (this is often better than a logo as these are “personal” profiles and we prefer to deal with people, set up an email my suggestion is  ”social@yourdomain.com) and create a brief bio (keep it simple). Now you are ready to get signed up. Follow each of these links and set up your free profile. Another recommendation I have is to have all of your profiles be the same name. For example, all of my username or profile names are CraigsAdvice with the exception of Google. This will help with the second part of this assignment.

Google – http://www.google.com/profiles

Yahoo – http://profiles.yahoo.com

Bing – https://signup.live.com/

Zillow – http://www.zillow.com/wikipages/Create-a-Free-Profile-on-Zillow/

Trulia – http://www.trulia.com/agents/

Once you are on these sites and if you have the staying power you should lock down your brand name or website. Knowem.com has a free program that will show you what usernames are available on 120 social media sites. They also offer a service that they will create accounts on each of these sites for $60 Click here to Protect Your Username on 120 Sites . I believe that you should protect your brand and lock down each of these usernames. If $60 is too much for your budget at the very least, lock down the following:


Also don’t forget these: FaceBook , LinkedIn , Yelp, Skype (this is the best way to connect with me and your clients, see the “i’m online” in the top right part of this page)

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