Make your avatar appear globally when you comment on a blog. Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums. People relate more to a picture than a blank box.

If you are new to Twitter or you are trying to expand your followers on your Twitter account, you need to know the best techniques to getting the right followers. As a user of Twitter, you can write powerful sales pitches all day long but it won’t generate sales from Twitterville if you are connected to the wrong people.

Facebook’s not just for keeping tabs on friends and filling out quizzes — it can also be used as a highly effective business tool. It’s great for marketing your products, landing gigs and connecting with your customers. Here are 32 ways to use Facebook in your business.

One of the least expensive and easiest ways to achieve expert status is to write a book. No, I don’t mean finding a publisher and writing a book to be physically published! After all, you don’t want to wait years for something to hit the book store. If you want to establish yourself – and make money – in the easiest way possible, consider writing an ebook.