Branding yourself online is one of the most important elements of your internet business. Nowadays, the world wide web is a busy place,so you have to stand out to be noticed. So, how can you do this?

When I started my own online business I thought long and hard about how I would like to brand myself online. I knew I wanted to help others to leave a corporate job, just like I had done, and start their own online business, and I wanted to project a professional image.

The first I did was to create a blog with my name so people would be able to find me on the internet. In the blog I write useful content which gives me the opportunity to share my thoughts and opinions, making me a REAL person and not just an internet sales pitch. This is the exact same way I brand myself by offering free teleseminars where people can hear my actual voice and feel as if I am connecting just with them – and not the other hundreds of people who could be on the call too.

You may also want to consider the colors to use when you brand yourself. A good tip is to choose a color which is complementary to your own image – for example, people might tell you that you suit pink, or blue. By branding yourself and your company with those colors you also feel more confident and relaxed about yourself and your online image.

Or you could do some research about what type of colors influence others, for example, blue and purple have proven to be popular in corporate branding – whereas green is a more wholesome color and popular with holistic and environment sectors.

Remember, people do business with people – your branding is what makes you stand out from the crowd.

I know I really struggled at the beginning to try and find enough hours in a day to write on my blog, design a squeeze page, create sales page, update on Twitter and Facebook, write articles and the list goes on….

But luckily for us entrepreneurs someone has thought of a way to help us share the load. Ian Ippolito started ‘Rent a Coder’ to help solopreneurs connect with other freelances you can take the strain from their projects or daily tasks.

The company has recently changed it’s name to VWorker – which stands for ‘Virtual Worker’ where you can post a project and pay someone else to do the work for you on an hourly basis or project-by-project basis – sometimes at a fraction of the cost of you doing it yourself.

Need to outsource some of your daily tasks or a project? Choose the perfect worker from over 10,000 at vWorker.com.com

This is to stop spammers from following 50,000 and only actually following 23 themselves.

Ideally, you want everyone who you are following to follow you back. A great little tool to do this is Friend or Follow. You’ll be able to see exactly the people you are following WHO AREN’T FOLLOWING UP BACK, then go in and ‘unfollow’ them, so you can add more people who will follow you back.

Are we connecting on Twitter?

If you’re still stuck for ideas on how to make money online with a home-based business the best advice I can give you is to gain more knowledge and be informed by the experts who are already doing it.

I highly recommend you read Willie Crawford’s special report which covers the
20 Ways to Make $100 Per Day Online if you’re looking for ideas to make money online. Willie is a highly respected internet marketer and member of the ‘The Internet Marketing Inner Circle‘.

He produced this report together with his fellow expert internet marketers to look at how average people, just like you, can work part-time from home and make money.

Don’t fall into the trap of ordering lots of special reports promising you a ‘get rich quick ‘ scheme, believe me, most of them just don’t work. You need your online business to be around long-term, therefore you need to build strong foundations.

This report provides all the information you need on 20 different ways to make money online from selling on eBay, Profitable Niche Markets, MLM, Greeting Cards, Memberships Sites, Resell Rights, Infoproduct Creation and much, much, more.

Get informed now by reading ‘real life’ stories in the 20 Ways to Make $100 Per Day Online report to gain as much knowledge as you can from others who have made a sustainable income online!

If you are getting a bit overwhelmed with managing all the Social Media sites this tutorial should help you get organized a bit!

You may even think that to become an author you have to write a famous novel or become the next J.K. Rowling. But it’s not as difficult as you think.

Millions of people worldwide are seeking help on the internet – but they aren’t all looking to read a best-seller book. In fact, initially most people look for short snippets of information to help them solve their problems. You’ve done that yourself, right? Article writing is one of the best ways to raise your online visibility.

I’ve found since I started writing articles my online visibility has soared. I joined EzineArticles and soon reached Platinum status – which awards me an ‘Expert Author‘ and allows me to get my articles published very quickly – sometimes in just  a few hours.

Since subscribing to several article directories last year I was amazed to see over 25,000+ people worldwide have read my articles on a variety of topics from internet marketing, blogging, teleseminars, success, dating, careers, personality types or affiliate products I have used or recommend.

Remember, you already have a lot of experience of life to bring to the table!

You can write about all sorts of topics too, you don’t have to stay in your niche. Have a look at the articles I’ve written and Articles By Irene and study the formula I’ve used to attract 9,000 people viewing my articles in just one article directory!

Facebook is really coming into it’s own with marketing. It did struggle for a few years to get the formula just right and not upset their 600 million users who after all, are there to share news with family and friends.

You probably already have your personal account set up – but if you’re thinking of setting up a FanPage or Like Page for yourself then you’ll have to be a bit inventive if you want to use your name as your brand.

I set my personal FB accout up as:

http://www.Facebook.com/IreneHouston

… all good and dandy

But when I wanted to create FB Fan Page or Like Page and use my name I found I couldn’t as my name had already gone — because I had it already as my profile.

So this is where you have to be a little more inventive if you want to use your name, a couple of alternative workarounds are:

‘YourNameLive’ or

‘YourNameOnline‘

I chose the latter and you can visit it here:

http://www.Facebook.com/IreneHoustonOnline

Remember – you need to have at least 25 Fans or ‘Likes’ before Facebook will allow you to choose your username.

If, like me, you’ve recently purchased an iPhone but just haven’t had the time to figure out how to upload the pictures you’ve taken onto your computer (Windows XP) then check out this useful tutorial.

It worked a dream for me!

Check it out here