Keep Your Profiles Updated

Posted on February 6th, 2010 @ 11:46 am by David Politis.
Categories: Advertising, Interactive, Marketing, Media Relations, Public Relations, TheBettyFactor.com, blogging, marketing communications, new media, social media.

plaxo-profile-imageI had a significant change in my life on December 31, 2009, as that was the day my family and I sold off our ownership positions in SOAR Communications to my former business partner.

Interestingly, it didn’t hit me until two days ago that I needed to make changes to all of my various public Internet-based profiles (and biographies) to accurately reflect my new reality. Which leads to the point of this blog post:

When was the last time you reviewed and/or updated your public profiles (and/or bios)?

For me, it had been WAY TOO LONG.

In taking a personal accounting, I realized I’ve got profiles on

on two blogs/Websites:

So I’ve now started that process (as shown in the photo above), and I plan to spend this morning reviewing and updating ALL of my public profiles/biographies.

And if you haven’t done so lately, I recommend you do the same:

Review and update each of your public profiles and biographies today.

I’m going to add this as a once-a-quarter task to my calendar to make sure I stay on top of this task in the future. I hope you do so too.

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Comment on March 12th, 2010.

Hi Betty,

I believe that’s the essence of these social networking websites around - to keep everyone updated while having them interacting to each other’s updates that eventually energizes everyone to create learning, ventures and good relationships leading to business.

Like blogging, it pays to have your profile updated because you never how many people are eager to hear from more of your thoughts and the more you pay attention to them, the more you’ll be able to gain followers. These are really great marketing tools to take advantage of!

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