{"id":2180,"date":"2011-06-06T09:42:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T23:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2012-03-02T17:57:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T06:57:04","slug":"telling-people-is-a-key-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2011\/06\/telling-people-is-a-key-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling people is a key step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Keeping people updated\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2011\/06\/keeping-you-updated\/\">As I mentioned in\u00a0yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a>, if I don&#8217;t tell you something how can I expect you to know about it let alone share the information?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3646\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/10476659_s.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3646\" class=\" wp-image-3646 \" title=\"10476659_s\" src=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/10476659_s-300x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/10476659_s-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/10476659_s.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">image source: 123rf<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Have you heard the expression &#8216;build the website and people will come to you&#8217;? It isn&#8217;t the entire story as no matter how great your website is, if no one knows it exists you will not get many visitors to the site.<\/p>\n<p>There are many ways to increase your business profile, and various people will tell you that you MUST do certain things to further your business. <a title=\"having a blog for money or pleasure\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2009\/11\/blogging-for-money\/\">Having a blog<\/a>, joining Twitter and Facebook, putting videos on YouTube and having a LinkedIn profile can help a business, although to varying degrees for each business.<\/p>\n<p>However, what is often not mentioned is that you have to promote those things in order to get the benefit of them. It&#8217;s great to tweet about new products and share valuable information but if no one follow you and your clients don&#8217;t know you are on Twitter, it&#8217;s pretty much a waste of time. Likewise for all those other <a title=\"building social media relationships\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2010\/08\/social-media-relationships\/\">social media options<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So remember to let people know about your blog, website, twitter account, Facebook profile and so on if you want them to build your business profile and website traffic.<\/p>\n<p>How have you told people about your social media presence? What has been the most effective for you?<\/p>\n<p>PS If you don&#8217;t already know, <a title=\"Tash Hughes on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/TashWord\" target=\"_blank\">my twitter name is TashWord<\/a>\u00a0and <a title=\"Word Constructions on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WordConstructions\" target=\"_blank\">Word Constructions is on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in\u00a0yesterday&#8217;s post, if I don&#8217;t tell you something how can I expect you to know about it let alone share the information? Have you heard the expression &#8216;build the website and people will come to you&#8217;? It isn&#8217;t the entire story as no matter how great your website is, if no one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,53],"tags":[306,1723,1261],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-content","category-business-info-tools","tag-promote","tag-social-media","tag-tell"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions\/2186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}