Customizing Your Social Media Pages

You can create a profile or page on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Wordpress and Blogger in a matter of minutes. An obvious step for getting the most out of any of these sites is to completely fill out your profile. Once you have established a complete profile many people stick with the default design missing out on an opportunity to capitalize on the impression of your brand or business. And as the saying goes, you never get a second chance to make a first impression, so here are some resources to nail your first impression!

Smashing Magazine has a great article on best practices for designing twitter backgrounds along with some excellent examples.

Over at Allfacebook.com there is an excellent piece on creating a facebook page that get fans. If you have a generic facebook page this will inspire you to add a little personality to it. Don’t have a facebook page for your business? Why not create one.

For those of you with YouTube videos be sure to check out the squidoo lens on customizing your YouTube channel. Make sure you subscribe to the Miva Merchant YouTube Channel because we like subscribing to channels run by store owners so expect a subscription back from us.

Disqus is an awesome commenting system that will likely boost the comments left on your blog because it makes commenting easier. You might even find yourself leaving more comments on other people’s blogs!

Do you have a cool custom designed facebook page, twitter profile or youtube channel? Let us know by leaving a comment below so we can create a Best of Miva Merchant from the community.