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Join GDI on SlideShare

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If you follow us on Facebook or Twitter, you may have noticed we often post links to GDI presentations on SlideShare. Here’s more about the site and why you should be on it.

What is it?

According to their site, SlideShare is “the world’s largest community for sharing presentations. With 60 million monthly visitors and 130 million page views, it is amongst the most visited 200 websites in the world.” In short, SlideShare is the place to socially share your presentations.

What are the benefits?

You can create any kind of presentation you want with PowerPoint or similar software and share it instantly. It’s just another way to get eyes on your content and spread the word about your GDI opportunity. Slide presentations are a great alternative to video as they are visual but require less skill and often less time. Additionally, any presentations you have created or used in the past can now have a home online.

How do I use it?

Create slide presentations with PowerPoint or similar programs and instantly upload them to SlideShare. This means you can create presentations about your business, how to be successful with GDI or anything you like. People can then search for your presentation or you can provide them a direct link or link to your channel. Be sure to share contact information in your profile, so viewers of your slides know where to learn more. Head to SlideShare to learn more and start sharing your work!

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How to Leverage Twitter to Build Your Network

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By now you know how important social media can be to building your business. It gives you a whole new world to market to and network with while providing a wealth of information. Just signing up with the big social media sites won’t help you grow your network, you need to be proactive and leverage your presence. Here are three simple ways to do so.

Start Conversations with People Who Are Talking

You know to start conversations to build relationships online, but it matters who you’re talking to. Tweeting at someone who never responds or trying to start a conversation with someone who hasn’t been on there account in weeks is waste of time. Look at the people you follow in your feed and see who’s really talking. Those people always tweeting with @ signs are those mostly likely to engage back. Conversations with these chatty people will help you build your network.

Talk About Trends Relevant to Your Business

What should you be talking about? Anything that’s relevant to your business. With GDI this can be site design, marketing ideas or networking events. Users search on sites like Twitter for people talking about what they are interested in and then follow them. Use keywords related to your business in each tweet and include hashtags (#) to make sure you can be found.

Follow Up and Organize

Just because you had a Twitter conversation with someone doesn’t mean they are a reliable part of your network. Go farther to ask them to connect on LinkedIn and share some ideas that can help you both. Create lists on Twitter to sort people you follow so you know who you’ve interacted with and why they could be helpful.

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Simple Free Tools for Affiliates

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smWhen building your business online, there’s never a shortage of new technology to know or ways to make what you do easier and simpler. Here are a few free tools we like to grow and manage your online business.

HootSuite

If you’re active on multiple social networks, or have multiple accounts, HootSuite is for you. According to their website, “HootSuite helps teams engage with audiences and analyze campaigns across multiple social networks from one secure web-based dashboard.”

HootSuite allows you to view interactions across multiple social networks at once, schedule postings ahead of time, shorten links, and create profiles. HootSuite rests right in your browser and makes it so you wont miss posts, tweets or interactions from all of your networks.

Codeacademy

Codeacademy is for anyone who wants to learn how to use HTML.  The company’s website says, “Codecademy is a team of hackers working hard to build a better way for anyone to teach, and learn, how to code. We’re determined to succeed in realizing our mission to turn a world of tech consumers into one of empowered builders.”

Codeacademy offers simple lessons and instructions to help you begin using HTML. Codeacademy can help give you the skills to create a better looking website and manage existing code.

FotoFlexer

If Photoshop just isn’t in your budget, there’s a myriad of free photo editing services online. We like FotoFlexer. Their tagline is that they are “The world’s most online image editor.” With tools and effects similar to those offered in Photoshop, the site allows you to perform almost any edit.

It’s user friendly and thanks to many users helpful tutorials and instructions are easy to find. Use FotoFlexer to edit photos you want to use on your site, blogs or even things like business cards and materials.