With social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest gaining millions of users and growing fast, it’s time to ramp up your use of existing online marketing tools.
Whether your brand is established or you’re just starting out, creating an online identity and utilizing it can seem overwhelming. But, it doesn’t have to be a timely or expensive process.
Christine Erikson of Mashable.com offers nine fast and simple tips on maximizing your online potential. Here are a few examples:
- With sites like Name Vine, you can make sure that your vanity URL is available on the web, on Facebook and on Twitter all at once.
- A tool like HootSuite, can save you time by integrating all of your social networks. To post new content, launch products or break news, you only have to hit “publish” once and it will be mass distributed over all of your social media sites, including Twitter and Linkedin.
- QR codes can be placed on napkins, menus, business cards, billboards, magazines, brochures, and on forms of marketing materials.
Read more about effectively marketing yourself and your business online.

