A bit of delimna considering a pen name and launching social media campaign...
Now that I'm moving out of the services industry a little bit and more into the marketing world, I want to get more active on social media--facebook, twitter, linkedin, and keeping a regular blog. Here's my small dilemna.
I've got two facebook accounts (shhh..don't tell). One is for my pen name and one is for my real name. The thing is that I hardly ever use the one for my pen name and am constantly active on the one tied to my real name. Obviously because that's where my friends are. Also, I feel like I can really be myself there, let my true personality shine (warts and all), and people get a kick out of my sense of humor, etc--and I think my target market in IM will too.
Not to mention that the greatest leverage, IMO, when starting out in social media or launching a self-published book, are the contacts you ALREADY have.
So I'm trying to figure out what to do to merge the two. I could just message all my friends and add them to my professional account--many but not all of them already know I write and conduct business under another name. And then I could primarily focus on that account and shut the other down.
Or I could keep my pen name just for my books and my services business, but that means whatever I do in IM, it won't be as easy to use the credibility I've already built working as a freelance provider and making contacts in the industry.
It's probably not that big of a deal since I"m still fairly new--and I'm probably making a mountain out of a molehill--but it has been holding back my social media efforts,so some input would be great.
Has anyone else faced a similar decision, and how did you deal with it?
Cheers,
James
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