Consider promoting your name (and your business) if you are an Independent Tech, a Sales Professionals, or an Artist. Adding your profile to social media sites and business directories is usually free and does not require attending more meetings or events. Prepare your short description and a long one to have on hand so you can paste it right into your profile fields.

Here is a list of sites that we gathered-http://www.godaddy.com
If you haven’t purchased www.YourName.com or something like www.AskMarci.com, etc.

http://www.facebook.com/

To create a business page on FB (after you create your personal profile)
http://www.facebook.com/advertising/?pages#/pages/create.php

http://biznik.com/

http://twitter.com/
You will add your name or biz name after the twitter.com/….

http://www.zoominfo.com/

http://www.meetup.com/
Join a group- they have in person and online groups

http://www.plaxo.com/

http://www.manta.com/

http://www.spoke.com/

http://www.xing.com/

http://www.yelp.com/

http://www.google.com/
sign in with gmail or create a new account to set up your profile

http://maps.google.com/maps

http://local.yahoo.com/

http://www.bing.com/
This is the new MSN live search – top right, Sign In

http://www.youtube.com/

http://animoto.com/
My favorite site – look at the sample videos!
If you want to open a paid account then enter this Referral Code: yhbpzkqj
Tip: look at the FAQ about image size – then crop & size your images before you start to upload. A FREE 30 second video uses about 15-20 images.
http://animoto.com/help/faq