Internet Advertising

Social media has become an integral part of the personnel sourcing and job hunting process. Today, more and more companies rely on the Internet to research the candidates (including outside consultants) they plan to hire. This makes it important to take a strategic approach when it comes to building your online reputation. Effectively leveraged, social media can help you create a strong personal brand and widen your reach across a wide array of job markets, industries, and organizations.

While there are many social media platforms that can help you build your network, there are two that all professionals should definitely consider and keep up to date – Google+ and LinkedIn. While the latter has now become synonymous with job search / hiring, the former can help you establish a strong online presence that you can leverage to enhance your reach. These two platforms alone can help you build a relevant network, and create and exchange information and ideas to give shape to your personal brand as a professional.

Linking Via LinkedIn

LinkedIn has become the most popular professional network in most parts of the world. Clearly, it has several advantages over traditional job portals thanks to its social media strengths and the fact that it is primarily driven by quality content.

LinkedIn allows its members to connect with each other. You can connect with like-minded individuals from the same profession and explore available job opportunities through this network.
It is a handy research tool. Most companies worth their name are present on LinkedIn with specialized digital marketing teams continuously generating content or strategizing to make their presence felt online. You can utilize this content along with inputs from your network to research a potential employer and their business before an interview.
You can identify the people that matter. Within minutes, LinkedIn can offer you insights into who the key persons in your area of interest are at a company you want to work with—as an employee, as a vendor, as a business partner, and so on. You can connect and engage with them to explore the possibility of a potential opportunity in their company.
You can build credibility. Your profile provides details about the people in your professional network, the companies you have worked with, and the capabilities you bring to the table, among other factors. Features like endorsements and recommendations add even greater credibility to your profile.

How To Make The Most Of LinkedIn?

Develop your LinkedIn profile like you would your resume. Highlight your strengths and capabilities early in your profile page.
Create interesting content and share it with your network. This will help establish you as a subject matter expert. The more original content you post the greater the benefits, including search engine rankings.
Build your network. Identify people within your industries of interest and connect with them. Join relevant groups and make your presence felt within these micro-networks.
Post regularly on various forums and comment on topics that can demonstrate your expertise and show that you have a unique perspective on matters of interest to your network.
Use the right keywords while building your profile and even while posting in forums. This will help both, your search engine rankings and your association with certain specific skills and capabilities.
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Enhancing Your Online Presence With Google+

Where do we all go when we want to search for information?

Google. Where else? No other search engine today comes even close. A strong presence on Google+, is therefore, a definite advantage. However, as Google says, Google+ is now more than a social media platform. It has integrated various other offerings from the Google stable such as YouTube, Google+ Communities, Hangouts, Google Local and Reviews, Google Analytics, Google+ Ripples, and Google Mobile to provide a single window platform that can have a significant impact on your SEO.

How can you take advantage of Google+?

Build a profile page on Google+ to let Google know of your existence. While there is no stated preference, there is enough evidence to show that Google does favour content hosted on its products when throwing up search results.
Create backlinks to your blog, website, and LinkedIn pages using Google+. Also ensure that these links can be shared by those who visit your profile.
Upload content and make it shareable on Google+. The more shares you can manage the better it is in terms of SEO for your profile.
Build the right connections. The Circle function offered by Google+ helps segregate your contacts. This is a valuable tool you can use to employ targeted messaging and relevant communications.
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Today, when it comes to the Internet, understanding your competition through a marketing competition analysis has become crucial. Just several years ago, the Internet was a diversion full of entertainment, fun, and confusion for most people. While that of course is still true today, there is one major addition that needs to be understood: the Internet has literally blossomed overnight when it comes to highlighting and showcasing businesses, and functioning as a platform to attract customers and clients.

Because of that, the ability and desire to gain new customers and clients over the Internet, and attract customers from search engines and social media sites has become extremely competitive. You may not see it or feel it, but your competitors are working just as hard as you, if not harder, to gain prospects and customers on the Internet.

For your business, no matter the industry, it’s necessary that you do the same when it comes to standing out from the crowd and showcasing yourself online so that customers and new prospects can find you with ease.

Crowded Marketplaces Mean Less Opportunity To Stand Out

As the Internet in general becomes more crowded and chaotic with businesses offering incentives and advertisements at every turn, it becomes more important than ever to stand out from the crowd and attract customers with your products and services. Otherwise you risk having your business being lost in the flood of countless other businesses just like yours.

Leverage a competition analysis to understand what your competitors are doing with everything from search engine optimization, to social media accounts so that you can differentiate and stand out. No matter what the industry, you have to bring your ‘A’ game online, lest you be bested right out of a job.

Online Presence Equals Offline Dollars

Being online doesn’t just mean getting people to follow you on Twitter, or having people check out your blog. Sure, that’s important, and they can lead to offline conversions and results. A strong online presence that puts you out ahead of your competitors can directly and swiftly lead to offline dollars and profits for your business.

As more and more people go digital when they are searching for products and services, and a greater number of people work to review and purchase products or services online, it’s critical that you get out there and have a lasting, visible presence on the Internet where customers can come directly to you. This, in turn, will rapidly improve your business while dramatically cutting a variety of your costs.

Need help with your marketing competition analysis? WSI Connect has the expertise that you need. Contact us today to learn more.