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First off for those that don’t know IRL means in real life. 

Keep a small notebook for email address when you are out and about in the world.  Keeping in contact is the best way for someone to remember you.  With the flood of businesses and websites you need to keep yourself out there and the best way to do that is to send out emails whenever you have news about your business.

*Tip – Don’t send emails out more than twice a week.  Too many emails make your seem pesty.  Remember a persons time is valuable.  Also, keep it professional, business only!

Message boards are a great way to put your name out as I mentioned before.  There are tons of message boards for almost any subject.  One of the best ones I’ve found is at www.wahm.com They have general discussions as well as “special folders” for all kinds of direct sales companies.

So, you join a board and put your signature in your profile so, it will show up on every one of your posts.  Sounds easy enough right?  There is a catch though.  You will not be welcomed if all you do there is “spam” the group.  You can’t just go onto a message board and start yapping all about your business.  The people there will not like it and you’ll find that out really fast.

You want to add to the discussions on the forum.  By being a good member of the board, you meet others with helpful info and have fun.  Let you signature do all the work, if people want info they’ll ask for it.  There is one exception to the rule and that is, several message boards have a folder just for “ads” this is where you get to brag all about your business and no one is going to give you grief about it.

Message boards serve a two folder purpose.  You are meeting others and the link to your site on your signature allows other members to find you and for search engines to index your site.  Search engines “like” message boards because they are ever changing with new information.  Your signature on a message board can be one of the fastest ways a search engine finds your new site and indexes it.

Have fun, network and the rest will fall into place.

There are plenty of social networking sites out there, myspace.com, facebook.com, yuwie.com and more!  Signing up and making a page doesn’t take much time at all, less than 30 minutes.  You’ll want to put the links to your website on your new page.  You can also search for people with similar interests and your friends.

Your new social networking pages not only helps with another “free” place to put the link to your website.  It helps you build relationships.  The more people see you the more they will remember you.  The lastest info I read about marketing says that it takes 28 touches, for a person to even remember you.  That is because we are exposed to more businesses and sites than ever before. 

More social networking can come from message board or forums.  I’ll discuss that topic further in my next post.