Have you ever wondered how social bookmarks can help you build a stronger brand online? This short presentation will help to think laterally about what you can do with social bookmarking.
2. What is a brand? “ A brand is not a name or a logo. It is not a product, service or business. It is a promise, an expectation and ultimately an experience” 1 in other words, it’s your clients emotional experience of you, your business and your service. What’s your brand? What is your customers emotional experience? (1. www.aota.org/Brand/Brand.aspx)
3. Just remind me, what’s your brand again? are you the expert? are you the technical whiz kid? are you the quiz master (or mistress)? do people trust you? can you be relied upon to deliver exactly what is needed? What knowledge can you share that makes it valuable for people to know you?
5. What is social bookmarking? Remember when we all had a ‘favourites’ category on our web browser? That long list of sites that you want to return to quickly and easily. Social bookmarking allows you to save these favourite websites (or bookmarks) to a social network instead. You can sort, tag, organise, share and access them anywhere you have a web connection. Note that word share ……! It’s important
6. And why would I want to do that then? Loads of reasons actually ……. it increases the number of ways that people can find your website or articles search engines love them and will often index pages listed on them more quickly it shows how wonderful you are because you share your knowledge , demonstrates your expertise and showcases your skills building a resource library collaboratively becomes easier, share it or keep it private – it’s your choice it’s social , which means others can find your links, follow and recommend them
7. Why delicious? Because I like it! Oh, and because ….. it ranks number 7 in most popular social bookmarking sites it’s easy to use it’s more business focused than the others (in my opinion) the links can’t be affected by other people you can share your bookmarks with Twitter
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9. So, what do I need to do? Adding an interesting article to your site and linking to it in Delicious = Lots of happy people who can now read your excellent information
10. Will it work for my business? Well, that depends on YOU …… decide what you want to achieve and why decide what subjects to focus on keep it updated and organised let people know it’s there
11. You have been watching …. Linda Parkinson-Hardman You can find me on Delicious at: http://delicious.com/lindaph1 on my website at: http://www.growabetterbusiness.co.uk or on LinkedIn at: http:// linkedin.com/in/lindaph