Social Profiles - The Benefits of Online Presence

So far, while surfing around the blogosphere, you must have come across profiles of many great bloggers on different microblogging and social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Youtube etc. Nearly all the celebs have there social profiles setup on at least one of the above platforms to accumulate a huge number of fan following. This article explains why has almost everyone, including me :), have created such profiles.

There are many benefits of having such social profiles on the web. Not only does the creation of Social profiles helps spreading your presence over the internet, but also provides a platform to directly talk to your fans and critics. I ll list down the various benefits of maintaining such Social Profiles over the web:

  • Brand Value

    These social profiles helps in creating a self brand value exposing oneself to the millions of internet users. These kind of profiles creates a sense of trust amongst the fans and helps in building strong relationships with the fans. Also, it helps to address various issues, questions etc from both fans and the critics. Regular updates, feedback helps maintain good amount of following.

  • Direct Contact

    As mentioned above, these profiles can help a lot in communicating directly with your fans and critics. Consider a situation when false rumors are spreading across about the a thing you have done (or something that you have not done) or any such situation, these profiles are much handy in ruling out false claims and broadcasting true and vital information for those who seek it.

  • Business Relations

    Blogging and micorblogging have proved to be of immense use to many businesses and start-ups who are seeking to attract more customers and thus converting their leads effectively. Since these platforms are very cheap, and many times effective than conventional sources of media, broadcasting about something new, something unique etc about your business becomes much easier and convenient. Also, businesses can address various queries and issues to help larger audience make their decisions fast and effective.

With these benefits, one can never deny the importance of such Social Profiles. If you are looking for such kind of benefits, probably what you need is an exposure through a Social Profile.

3 Response to "Social Profiles - The Benefits of Online Presence"

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Manish Shah (not verified)
April 5th, 2010 12:51 pm

Hi..
Very good post. Profile building is very important specially having online business. yes.. placing a good profile will beneficial for brand value, networking and for business relation. It has also give advantage that when people search for your name, your profile on big sites come in result which will build your strong reputation in visitors mine.

it also give quality traffic to your website however one sad thing in terms of SEO is just : most of links placed in profile pages or nofollow so profile building will not give benefit in link building.

good informative post..
Warm Regards..
Manish

April 12th, 2010 11:11 pm

Thats what matters as well! Your visitors should be happy with you and in return they will suggest their frinds to follow you as they do! And hence, Your fan following grow!

May 2nd, 2010 04:50 am

Hi..
Very good post. Profile building is very important specially having online business. yes.. placing a good profile will beneficial for brand value, networking and for business relation.It’s really appreciable and
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