What Comes Next?

By Anthony Mathews

So you've chosen to market yourself over the internet. Now you're wondering how should you go about doing so. Don't worry many people need help and a friendly point in the right direction when it comes to internet marketing. Deciding what sites to use for your content is huge! You need to pick a site that fits to what you're doing. If your content is a video you can not go wrong with YouTube. YouTube allows you to post videos and choose tags for your video as keywords that will allow people to find your video for searching certain content. If you are starting a blog a good site to use is WordPress or Blogger. These sites allow you to post word content such as a news blog or politics. Here you can write your blog and save the draft for when you think it will be the best time to post it. One site that is great for anything and allows you to even promote yourself by buying a promotional spot on their site is Facebook. On Facebook you can create a page and invite all your friends to like it. There is even a place to promote your page and it will appear on other people's timelines to like and share your page. Once you have chosen where to share your content you must choose a way to tell more people about it. As mentioned earlier Facebook gives you the option to share your page and get people interested in it. Another thing you could do is promote yourself through your social media sites. Asking friends to check out your page and see the things you're posting. Send them e-invites to view your page. Also begin advertising your work on a site that may be similar to your work. On YouTube many people ask to be checked out on other video comments adding a link to their page or a video they posted. Once you begin spreading the word about your page, you need to post content to keep your followers and viewers coming back for more. A post a week may be too little but posting too often could make your information seem like it has not been thought out. A regular posting schedule would be about 3-4 times per week. You should try to keep your postings on a regular schedule. Making it easier to follow your works and keeping your content fresh. After you've begun posting and your page grows you should look into using smaller sites to grab the followings of those who may not use the site you're already on. For example, Facebook users could begin a Twitter account to pull in more followers. By marketing your content over the internet your reach is practically endless. The name "world-wide web" is a literal definition of the possibilities of online marketing.