If you’re looking to establish your online presence, and build relationships, it’s not the kind of project where you show up, build your profiles, friend a few people, and call it good. It’s a lot like tending the farm. Here are seven particular “chores” you could do every day that should prove beneficial to your online interests.

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TWITTER

Find seven things worth retweeting in your general feed and share.
Reply to at least five things with full responses (not just “thanks”).
Point out a few people that you admire. It shows your mindset, too.
Follow back at least 10 folks. (I use an automated tool, but this is a personal preference. If you want such, I use SocialToo.)
10 minutes of just polite two-way chit chat goes far.

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FACEBOOK

Check in on birthdays on the home page. (Want a secret? Send the birthday wish via Twitter or email. Feels even more deliberate.)
Respond to any comments on your wall.
Post a status message daily, something engaging or interesting.
Comment on at least seven people’s status messages or updates.
Share at least 3 interesting updates that you find.
If you belong to groups or fan pages, leave a new comment or two.
LinkedIn

Accept any invitations that make sense for you to accept.
Enter any recent business cards to invite them to LinkedIn (if you’re growing your network).
Drop into Q&A and see if you can volunteer 2-3 answers.
Provide 1 recommendation every few days for people you can honestly and fully recommend.
Add any relevant slide decks to the Slideshare app there, or books to the Amazon bookshelf.

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BLOGS

Visit your blog’s comments section and comment back on at least 5 replies.
If you have a few extra minutes, click through to the blogs of the commenters, and read a post or two and comment back.
While on those sites, use a tool like StumbleUpon and promote their good work.
Write the occasional post promoting the good work of a blog in your community.
It’s Not Easy

Maintaining your online presence takes time. If you look at all I’ve listed above, that’s easily more than an hour of work. But it depends what the value of that presence is to you, if you’re doing this as an individual, or to your organization, if you’re doing this on behalf of a brand or product.

We’ve traded dollars for time, in lots of these equations, as we see the return on our advertising spend diminish. It’s your choice whether you want to maintain an active online presence, or if you want to get away with a bit less.

What do you think?


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Author : Chris Brogan

http://www.chrisbrogan.com/19-presen...-do-every-day/

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Eddna
www.VAInnovations.com

Wow - thank you for a real plan, I have printed and will be following daily.

So much to do to market your business -- there are days I wonder if I willhave time for clients work when I get one!

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Cindy
www.eoseasy.comThe Chrysalis Plan

This is a nice list. I like the birthday idea very much. I'm thinking of making a spread sheet of birthdays from FB and then using that as a guide.

Thanks, you have me thinking.

Janine

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Good stuff, thanks for sharing!! I printed this out.

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Doreen R. Patrick, MVA, ACS, CIVA
www.virtualbusinesspartners.net

Thank you. One thing I need to do is update my blog on a regular basis. You inspired me to work on mine today!

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Myrlene Hoyte
www.vpadmins.com

Great post, I am going to print and make a commitment to do this daily.

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Heather
Robinson Business Solutions

This is one of the best posts I have seen yet for marketing with a friendly feel.

Excellent!
Andrea

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Action Jackson Virtual Assistant|

I really am glad everyone has benefited from his post as much as I have, it really makes managing social media and blogs a bit more easy (or at least know in what direction to flow)

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Eddna
www.VAInnovations.com