Something awesome happened to you today. Maybe you got a promotion, acquired a new client, or finished creating a new product. So how do you share it? Nowadays, you might go straight to your favorite social media platform and tweet it, post a status update or write a news release. This is a perfect example of how social media is changing the way we promote ourselves and how easy it is now to promote your personal brand as well as your professional brand throughout the social media spectrum.

Here’s Peter Shankman (@petershankman) founder of HARO, now with Vocus, at the Society of Professional Journalists conference this month at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas with his take on the subject:

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I drive go-to-market content, SEO and social strategy for multiple brands at Cision, an earned media software intelligence company.

Your content program is only as good as the stories you are telling. I engage and inspire audiences with interactive and multimedia projects that serve all areas of the funnel and have experience scaling content programs globally to drive brand awareness, leads and revenue for the business. I own our keyword strategy and non-technical SEO for the business.

I revolutionized Cision’s outbound promotion efforts to amplify its inbound lead generation results by creating a multichannel campaign strategy that promotes discoverability, search rank, audience awareness, credibility, and ultimately more topline revenue growth. I also helped with our rebrand and watched Cision go public in 2017.