I was very impressed with this course! Social media, in my opinion, was just another way of socializing online. I never thought about personal branding and advertising. I guess since I have been in the military for over a decade, I have lost touch with things in the real world, especially technology. When it comes to building you own brand or business, you must keep up with the times! I’ve learned that when you are trying to build your own personal brand, you must sit down and come up with a complete plan or scheme of maneuvers on how you would like to be successful. When you reach these goals, you must stick to them and stay consistent. Consistency is key when it comes to making posts or sharing information and giving your audience what they want or desire. You can’t have a my way or the high way attitude. It’s all about customer satisfaction. I would have like to have gone more in-depth about viral marketing and test out a few ways to post some ideas at peak times on certain days to see if a post had the potential of going viral. I think viral marketing is extremely important because you want your brand to always be a trending topic. The most popular social media platforms I would use is Facebook and YouTube. These two monstrous platforms have been around for years and generate the most views. I think that my brand would benefit from these two platforms!

Hello again! Just when you think you have everything figured out with posting things online, you find out this is the real reason why certain people hire people to do all this stuff! All jokes aside, here's a clip of my draft talking about my brand. Its a very rough draft but practice makes perfect. Everything and everyone....well almost everyone, gets better with time!


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            There are a million and one ways to building your audience of followers and connections on LinkedIn. If you are tired of scrolling on blog sites and typing searches on google and Bing, sit down and pull out a pen and pad. I will take the same steps that a lot of people PAID others to do. You must start by building your profile the right way. If you have a complete profile page that has a good flow to it with key words and shared content, it could lead you to new and bigger connections. You must be consistent at building connections and post updates regularly. Groups are very important as well. This is where you build more connections by joining multiple groups and networking with people in your area of expertise. Here are a few LinkedIn groups that motivate me:

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