Category Archives: Marketing

Beginners, Marketing, Social Media

Marketing on Twitter for Beginners

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Social Media is great for building your network. If you’ve yet to join Twitter because it seems overwhelming, it’s time to change that. Just a few tips can help you to truly utilize the service and grow your network and influence.

Engage

Once you join Twitter, don’t go silent. This isn’t an open invite to babble either, unless you don’t want any followers. Balance your general statement tweets with tweets that engage others. Post that engage other can be ones that ask questions or any post where you @ another user. You’re not limited to engagement with your followers; you can tweet @ anyone to start a conversation and hopefully a connection.

Build a Following

Why do you follow someone? This is the question to ask yourself when building a following. The qualities that cause you to follow one user are those you want to emulate and build you follow. Post content that is worthy of a retweet like great videos or blog posts. Tweet on the trending topics that you can find on the left-hand side of your feed, other users following them will see your tweet. Stay topical. Tweeting on the news and current trends helps you to set yourself apart as a thought leader people will want to follow. The followers you gain can quickly become part of your network as you engage with them.

Don’t Link Blast

Sending out only tweets that link to your WebSite or blog is a quick way to get people to ignore you. Balance any links to your own site with tweets without links, conversations with others in your network and even retweets of others. This shows you are on Twitter to engage in conversations and not just self promote.

 

Domains, Marketing, WebSites

Who Needs a WebSite?

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Your .WS domain is not only a powerful tool to brand yourself, it’s also a powerful product. .WS offers anyone a chance at the WebSite of their choice, thanks to far more domain name options than available through .COM. While not everyone is interested in GDI’s affiliate program, anyone can benefit from a .WS domain. Here’s a short list of just a few people that you might know who could use a .WS domain.

Small Business Owner – Not every business has a website. Many have a web presence either through review sites or a Facebook page, but a dedicated domain is still a necessity. Explain the power of branding your business and not someone else’s. For example, www.yourrestaurant.ws brands just you, whereas www.facebook.com/yourrestaurant is promoting Facebook first.

Job Seeker – Having your own site with your resume, portfolio, and information about you is a great way to stand out to potential employers. With a .WS domain, a job seeker can brand themselves by name, experience or career area and truly stand out in search results.

Blogger – Know a blogger whose domain is still domain.bloggingservice.com? Now is the time for them to secure their brand with a .WS domain. Visitors can head directly to their site without having to type in a lengthy hard to remember domain name and the blogger can better brand themselves and their business.

Beginners, Domains, Marketing, WebSites

Brand Yourself with .WS

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So you’ve been with GDI for a few months and work towards bonuses, build your team, and are trying to build your network. But have you really taken advantage of GDI’s biggest asset?

The personalized domain.

GDI offers you the chance at domain names you could never get with a .com and allows you to build your brand around it. Here are a few ways you can take advantage of your personal domain. This is also a great marketing point for anyone who is considering GDI, so pass it along.

Secure Your Identity

With the abundance of social media sites out there, it’s hard to just keep track of your own profiles on each site. Now imagine how hard it might before for someone to find you. Are you active on Twitter? Is that really you on Facebook? A great way to ensure that people who are looking for you actually find you is to secure your own personal domain. YourName.ws is a great way to brand yourself online.

Instead of having tidbits about yourself spread all over, why not use YourName.ws to broadcast your story, your business and your GDI opportunity. You can share blog posts and updates all in one place, as well as links to your social sites so people can be sure they found the right you.

Brand Your Business

Social sites and reviews sites should be a supplement to you business’s online presence, not the whole thing. When someone wants to find more about your business, your own website is most trustworthy. Whether you have a brick and mortar, and online business or just want to grow your GDI downline, a branded website is just for you. Secure a .WS that uses your business name or what you offer to ensure the most success.

Add Professionalism

We send and receive countless emails each day and it can be hard to sort through what is junk and what isn’t. Many people take a quick glance at an email address and decide whether or not to delete the message. To help your messages stay out of the trash, consider your own personalized email at your .WS. With each .WS you get 10 email addresses at that domain. This is great if you are using your .WS for your business. You can now send emails with confidence that people will know just who you are and what business you are representing. Sending an email from your personal domain will help you stand out among tons of other email names.