Comments on: 7 Surefire Ways to Sabotage Your Professional Brand in Social Media http://cometbranding.com/blog/7-surefire-ways-to-sabotage-your-professional-brand-in-social-media/ Comet Branding Blog is dedicated to being a platform for progressive branding, marketing, public relations and social media. Milwaukee Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:09:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Leah Kaiz http://cometbranding.com/blog/7-surefire-ways-to-sabotage-your-professional-brand-in-social-media/comment-page-1/#comment-2223 Leah Kaiz Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:55:00 +0000 http://cometbranding.com/blog/?p=2208#comment-2223 Sara for the most part I think these are 7 very solid points about professional branding. With number 5 though... It really all depends on what you do for the company. As an Online Sales Consultant for a local builder, though my paycheck, and my job says I work 8 hours a day 5 days a week... that is simply not the case. I think many people who have the "social media" job for their company, also find themselves working outside of posted hours. And being that in online sales if you don't reply almost instantly you have a much great chance of losing the business, it's even more important to be "available" all the time. If I take a moment to read a few updates from friends, while in the process of my "8 hour work day" and then as soon as I get home at night, I'm answering emails and phone calls that are coming in outside of hours for work, (Because they always do) I really don't feel guilty that I've spent 5-10 minutes of my day on personal stuff. In this day and age our personal hours and work hours are just as mingled as our personal profile and our professional profile. You need to have balance but you shouldn't have to worry that someone is going to realize you took a moment to breath in a calming picture of a cute kitten. And comment on it. Just my two cents! ; ) Sara for the most part I think these are 7 very solid points about professional branding. With number 5 though… It really all depends on what you do for the company. As an Online Sales Consultant for a local builder, though my paycheck, and my job says I work 8 hours a day 5 days a week… that is simply not the case.

I think many people who have the “social media” job for their company, also find themselves working outside of posted hours. And being that in online sales if you don’t reply almost instantly you have a much great chance of losing the business, it’s even more important to be “available” all the time.

If I take a moment to read a few updates from friends, while in the process of my “8 hour work day” and then as soon as I get home at night, I’m answering emails and phone calls that are coming in outside of hours for work, (Because they always do) I really don’t feel guilty that I’ve spent 5-10 minutes of my day on personal stuff.

In this day and age our personal hours and work hours are just as mingled as our personal profile and our professional profile. You need to have balance but you shouldn’t have to worry that someone is going to realize you took a moment to breath in a calming picture of a cute kitten. And comment on it. Just my two cents! ; )

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