Posting to forums and message boards is a great way to get traffic, network with potential clients and brand yourself in the online community. Posting to forums and message boards does not cost any money and can be done in your spare time.

In joining forums, pick a screen name that is easy to pronounce and remember. This will help in establishing your online personal image. There are people who uses their real names in forums. This is also appropriate if you have been using your name to build an online presence. Avoid using funny words as screen name because this will only look unprofessional.

More people will notice your business if you post on niche market forums. This is an effective method of getting targeted traffic and in making money online because you post into a forum where many people are into the same things that you are.

Whether you’re an entrepreneur or an employee, chances are you already know about the storm created by Twitter. You’ve heard how helpful it proves when building your business’s brand online. Twitter helps you remain virtually connected to your peers and customers 24/7X365, the Tweets and ReTweets help your company’s search engine optimization efforts, it announces your presence et al. And you’ve even created a Twitter account. Now you’re probably wondering how to make an impact in 140 characters or less. Here are a few tips that can help.

1. Managing your online reputation—the first thing you need to do is learn to manage your online reputation. Word of mouth marketing and publicity is the strongest because your brand is being referred to potential customers by one of them. So, make sure they’re saying good things about your brand. One poor comment and your brand will soon be all over the place on the web taking a beating.

Video (2min 29sec): LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site. Founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking.

As of 11 February 2010 (2010-02-11), LinkedIn had more than 60 million registered users, spanning more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.

LinkedIn isn't about building connections. You have plenty of connections now with things like email and Skype. LinkedIn is about helping YOU be more productive.

Here's one way to think about it. To accomplish a goal, we need to see the paths that will get us there.

If you are looking to create a little corner of your own on the web, then perhaps you may want to consider MySpace. This website has literally exploded the one of the top websites on the Internet overall. You will join fifty million users of all interests and ages and hopefully, garner as many of them as you can to be your new online friends.

To be a success and to stack up that Friends list, you really need to consider how effective MySpace layouts really are. They are literally your face on MySpace and will tell the world who you are and why you are there. And it doesn’t really matter WHY you are there, you just are and you want your MySpace layouts to speak volumes to those fifty million users. No worries, you don't need to be a CSS wizard, or HTML guru to do this, it is as easy as one-two-three.