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I started my project with a business plan.

We need plans when we work, a good plan makes sure that we don’t lose the focus of what we are doing or forget some important issue as we are progressing in the project.

For internet marketing it is even more important, since there are a lot of elements and loose ends of information we need to tie together before we can start working and get things to function like we want them to.

The plan can be advanced or like my plan, just a checklist of the items I needed to complete before I was ready to take the first steps. Here is the first step in my business plan.

1. Building my social network

People want to know who you are, so you have to set up your social network. This you can do independent of anything you will be selling on the internet, just get started.

I use Plaxo, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter as my main cornerstones in my online social network, btw, when you are looking for your friends or business associates on these networks, feel free to invite me, I will be honoured to follow you.

Your name may be a trap

One common mistake is how you write your name on the social networks. People (and Google) are looking for you everywhere on the internet. Your name is the key to your own social network. Try to Google Even Jahr (it is me), then you can see for yourself what I mean. I have used evenjahr consistently all over the net, you should use your name in the same way, and it makes it easier to find you. If I had put in a hyphen it would have been even better, like even_jahr. I did not do this, so perhaps I could have had even better results with my name this way.

I would not have had the same effect using ejahr or e_jahr or info_king or something else. So make sure that your social network is consistent when it comes to naming conventions. If you already have a social network see if you can change the user name without big consequences. Some services let you do this; others will not let you do this.

This will not work This works
Facebook nightcap evenjahr
LInkedin davy_dee evenjahr
Plaxo david_w evenjahr
Twitter all_over evenjahr

I guess you see my point?

Other services I use are:
Google Blogger http://evenjahr.blogspot.com,
Youtube http://www.youtube.com/evenjahr
Picasa http://picasaweb.google.com/evenjahr (Just a few pictures there)
Weebly http://evenjahr.weebly.com/ (I will just leave this blog as it is)
Google profiles http://www.google.com/profiles/evenjahr
Yahoo profiles I have a username even_jahr, evenjahr is taken, so I will not use this service
My blog http://www.evenjahr.com I was lucky here, the name was not taken.

This network is my social network and its main purpose is to let people know who I am. It should be easy to find me on Google, it should be easy to get a picture of my likes and dislikes, to learn what kind of people I associate with, my background my education and so on.

A consistent social network is an asset, so be thorough when you set it up and choose good tools to set it up.

This has had a strange result, my profile starts popping up on other websites, like twitterme.com and naymz.com. Apparently someone are scanning the social profiles and publishing what they find. Where it is possible I have updated my profile on these websites. My first step was to “own” the front page of Google when people are searching for me – this I do now.

Social Networking tools

To keep all my sites updated with a click, I use http://ping.fm . This free service lets me update my social network with a click, it is free to use and saves you a lot of time. I still logon to Facebook once a day to stay in touch with my friends; ping.fm is just for easy updates

So, get started on building your social network today, it is step regardless of how you want to proceed with your projects in the internet and what your goals are.

So to get going, complete step 1 – to let people know who you are.

If you are into the internet technology

If you have not already done this, get a Google webmaster account. You can use your Google email account to create one. With your Google webmaster account you have some very useful tools for checking and verifying your website.

Some of the services you have chosen will not allow you to edit the html code; others will let you do this.
If you can access the html code, then you should verify your website, verify means simply put that Google can find your website when it tries.

It is important to do this when possible at an early stage in your project; I once promoted a website for a client and put in a lot of work making the website visible. The result was nothing, the site did not show up, I had no results, needless to say I was curious about this – Then I tried Google verify, and it did not work. I could not get the website verified, Google verify returned errors all the time. The first web address was http://www.clientname.com I discussed this with the service provider, he had no faults with his setup, but Google simply refused to verify the website. To try something different, I changed the url to http://clientname.com and needless to say, Google verified it immediately. My work was not completely wasted, both links worked when you found them, but the effect I was hoping for was not there and I had to do this part again.

Therefore, verify your social sites (if possible) with Google before you start your marketing efforts.

With the technological changes and advancements in such a small time and the ever increasing competition to promote business, the need to find the new alternates or improvements in business promotion techniques and implement these methods is increasing.

Looking at the current business environment, where the competition is fierce, almost all the organisations need to use the latest audio-visual equipments for successful business communications or even business promotion. With the whole global population as the potential customer base, the organisations have taken their business to global stage and the companies who want to succeed rely on these real-time equipments to save time and money.

In today’s economy, a good business presentation is largely dependent on the audio visual equipments installed in their board-rooms or through proper selection of an external service provider which specialises in this field.

Experienced and professionally competitive audio-visual service providers, can offer best customised solutions which can be tailored to your business requirements and can provide the most advanced audio visual technologies for your business promotion. These audio visual service providers help in establishing a reliable and robust trouble free system which is backed by trusted professional and technical support in case of any issues. Mostly these companies have good established trade contacts or even contracts with multiple brand vendors, making it easier to have all solutions under one roof and thereby reducing your headache of an increased inventory.

These professionally experienced audio visual service providers usually cover various business sectors such as corporate meetings/ presentations, education, healthcare, financial services, etc. but most of these can alter their services to cover the scope of your requirements.

For example, you are a local business in any part of the world say Chicago and you want to promote your business to the world. Chicago audio visual companies can gauge your business requirements and will give you the best solution. If you want to send a professional video with sound or any audio visual presentation, the high tech equipments provided by these companies will make it easier for you.

There has been so many technological advancements in the field of sound engineering and visual communications which has paved the way to developing many new products in the market. These products range are huge and can be used depending on your budget and business promotion desired. From smaller micro phones, to high resolution cameras to projectors to large digisign boards these products can be used depending on the organisation’s requirements. So as a business you will need to search for the services of an ideal solution provider to set-up a perfect audio-visual environment for your office.

Though the audio visual service companies utilise the high-tech equipments and state-of-the-art solutions for their clients, but the correct combination and optimal solution need to be agreed before implementation.

The range of services provided by these audio visual companies is vast but the business and organisations who wish to avail these facilities should be clear of what they require. Whether they need only display related services, audio engineering, specialist equipment installation, software support or design. Also the location determines the design of such systems, like installation in auditoriums, company conference rooms/board-rooms, control rooms, training rooms, video/tele conferencing or digital signage boards.

Choosing the company for your audio-visual needs is an important decision for your business communication success. Always ensure that you know what you need and also make sure that the service provider understand your requirements. Before finalising the service provider, you should carefully analyse its capability, look for unbiased testimonials and ask for the various client portfolios to find their expertise in the field of audio-visual technology. The time sent on research and analysis of the various audio-visual companies in terms of quality of services offered and price can save great deal of money for your business and will ensure reliable business communication stream.