Take the time to set up your profiles on social networking sites. I know, I know, it takes forever...but it must be done. And it is my suggestion that you have lots of such accounts. It is not sufficient just to have a LinkedIn profile. You should create accounts at Squidoo and LinkedIn and set up good profiles there. You also need accounts at the major article directories like EzineArticles.

To create all these accounts and set up profiles, you will need to devote at least a half day to it, if not the whold day.

This is the kind of work that would be good to hire someone else to do. I suggest you create a document that has your bio, contact information, links, and any other information you may want shown on your profiles, and then find an intelligent young person to do the work for you. Paying a kid $10 per hour to do it is a bargain compared to using your own time, which you probably value a lot more than that.

Do people really look at other people's profiles on social networking sites? Absolutely. So don't blow an opportunity to brand and market yourself to people who are potential sources of business or leads.

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