Alright! You are using Social Media to promote yourself or your business right? That’s great! Kudos to you for adapting to a new medium and keeping current.

Now let’s talk about how to do it right.

I have heard social media networking described once in a webinar as a “cocktail party”. I have to say, I couldn’t have said it better myself.

Think of your social network as a cocktail party. Appropriate behavior and etiquette for cocktail party networking should apply to your social and professional networking. Afterall, it IS the world’s largest cocktail party.

Have you ever seen someone run up to a group of people having a discussion, jump right in the middle of the group and scream ” I have a great [insert product or service name here]” and then run away?! Neither have I.

Keep this in mind when you are online and networking. Don’t be that person at the aforementioned cocktail party. Keep it social. Engage in the conversation. If you wouldn’t do it offline, please don’t do it online.

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