**EDIT** Possibly my question might sound strange, sorry about that. I got a PhD in another country years ago. Recently I moved to the US and have a tenured position. Assume I wrote a paper and want to publish it in a journal. Is there anything what it is common to do (in the US) for this? Say, does it matter in what order I do the following things:

1) Present the work in a seminar at my department.

2) Present the work in a conference in my field.

3) Present the work in a seminar at another department.

4) Post on the arxiv.

5) I submit the paper to a journal.