10 Savvy Ways to (Quickly and Easily) Build Your Online Identity

Your online identity is quickly becoming one of the most important things to keep up on, but how exactly do you go about building it? Here are 10 quick and easy tips to keep your online identity on point.

1. Get online!

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Have you Googled yourself lately? (What? You haven’t?) Did you like what you saw?

By creating profiles on social and professional sites from Facebook to LinkedIn you can start to control what you (and others) see.

2. Curb your app-etite.

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Once you’re on multiple social-media platforms, synchronize your posts and profile pics, etc., so that your followers will start to recognize your “brand,” no matter where they find you.

3. Create a portfolio.

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It can be a resume or a simple “about me”—and upload it to a reliable, ad-free, cost-free online tool that will provide you with plenty of storage such as PBworks, Google Sites, or WordPress—none of which require any knowledge of HTML.

4. Combine steps 2 and 3.

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Be sure to link your portfolio or site to all your social media profiles so all roads lead back to the basics of what you want to say about yourself. Now you just have to build an audience, so...

5. Like them, and they’ll like you back.

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From Twitter to Instragram to Facebook Pages...clicking on, following, and liking others is the truest way to attract those whose attention you want to grab.

6. Don’t be content with your content.

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Yesterday’s news is just that—nobody’s going to look at it today. Keep it current.

7. You oughta be in pictures.

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Well, really, videos. Apps with news feeds, from Facebook on down, prioritize video posts.

8. Wash, rinse, and re-tweet.

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Whether it’s a link that makes you think or a pithy remark that makes you laugh, make it your own and share it.

9. Be yourself.

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No, seriously. With the avalanche of social-media, folks’ b.s.-detectors won’t let much get by. But honesty is the right policy—for online attention.

10. Grab yourself your own UNO Social Site.

The brand-new, completely free service enables you to manage all your social-media feeds—Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and more—from one top-line website that you name and own. By managing your social media in one place, uploading your resume/CV, and posting additional content to your own page—all on a site that updates in real time—you’ll create an online personality that is greater than the sum of your apps. (In other words, UNO lets you take care of 1-9 above!)