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Want to gain more followers to your Twitter account? Start promoting your Twitter handle (@yourname) within your email signature, business cards, and the contact information on major reports. Anyone using Twitter will recognize the @eprcreations as being connected with Twitter. You can likely remove irrelevant items such as your fax number and office number (just use your cell number) and replace it with your Twitter handle.

In your Twitter bio, be sure to follow this order:
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I updated my iPhone operating system to iOS6 last night. One of the new apps is the Passbook app. When I opened the Passbook app and then clicked the button for the App Store, it said that the iTunes store was not available.

There is an easy fix for this:
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LinkedIn makes it very easy to connect to people you know. But how do you keep track of people who you have searched for but have not connected to? For example, say you are searching for a potential employee. You’d like to somehow save the profiles of the candidates and maybe even take some notes.
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I’m fascinated by Kickstarter. As stated on their website, “Kickstarter is a funding platform for creative projects.” It fills a great niche in the market for those seeking investment funds. On the low end, there are family and friends for small amounts. On the high end, there are venture capital funds. Angel investors are available for the space in the middle, but they can’t cover everything and they usually invest in high dollar amounts.
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Facebook makes it very easy to post your Tweets directly to your Facebook page wall. This is a nice feature if you’d like to highlight your Tweets on Facebook while only composing the content once.

It’s a simple process. Once you have your Twitter account set up, go over to Facebook, sign in, and go to this link – http://apps.facebook.com/twitter/
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LinkedIn is one of the best places to look for a job and also to look for a potential employee. LinkedIn allows millions of people to keep a searchable updated resume on file at all times. I have gotten to the point where if someone asks for my resume, I send them a link to my LinkedIn page. I keep my LinkedIn profile updated monthly. I haven’t touched my resume in 4 years.

This obviously makes LinkedIn a great place to find your next employee. If you have a company page on LinkedIn, posting job openings is an easy process. However, it is not free like the other company page features are in LinkedIn.
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You have 160 characters to make a lasting impression.

Have you filled in your Twitter bio? I come across many Twitter profiles that do not have a bio. If you write a tweet, you have 140 characters. In your bio, Twitter graciously provides an additional 20 characters. Make them count.
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Do you have an important presentation that you would like to highlight on your LinkedIn profile? Do you have your portfolio within a slideshow presentation? Did you know you can show these on your LinkedIn profile?

To add a Google Presentation to your LinkedIn profile, follow these steps:
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I had a meeting with a friend yesterday who runs a business that requires a tremendous amount of trust from his clients. I asked him how he gets people to trust him while conducting his business over the Internet and I think his answer was just brilliant. He lays it all out on his about page. He asks the question “How can you trust me?” He then encourages his potential clients to do a Google search on his name and all permutations of his name. Any existing review pulled up with his name is positive. He then asks a simple question – “Why would I risk a negative review just to make a few extra dollars?”
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There has been a lot of news lately about Obama’s percentage of fake Twitter followers. Apparently 70% of his followers are not real users.

I don’t buy this. As we highlighted last week in How to Use Twitter as a News Source, many people use Twitter as a sort of RSS feed of people, companies, and news organizations they would like to follow. It is my understanding from these fake follower checkers that they look at how many of your Twitter follows are not active and if the ratio of following to followers is largely skewed to the following side.
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