Is your focus on LinkedIn to collect contacts as a primary social media strategy like putting eggs in a basket hoping they’ll hatch OR is your focus on communicating/interacting with your network (LinkedIn Connections)? So many individuals jumping on the social media are allocating way too much time in just acquiring contacts. There should be […]
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Your LinkedIn Profile: Is it Time for Check-up?
Instead of the abbreviated amount of space in a few bullet points on your resume, or a bio, LinkedIn provides you with unlimited space to describe your accomplishments, achievements, honors, awards, and recognition. Bonus: LinkedIn also provides you with the tools to provide support for your claims through video clips, audio recordings, white papers, powerpoint […]
How to Leverage LinkedIn for Marketing
Lewis Howes, a well-known LinkedIn Expert, wrote a blog post on the HubSpot Inbound Marketing Blog, in which he described some basic areas of LinkedIn Optimization, similar to what we’ve been discussing in the Chair e-Course. In this blog post, he writes/talks (audio too) about how to get started with LinkedIn and what common […]
How Many Slideshare Presentations Should be on Your LinkedIn Profile?
Jason Alba of “I’m on LinkedIn – Now What” fame wrote a blog post raising the question of whether you should have one choice, two choices, or many choices for the readers of your LinkedIn Profile to view your SlideShare Presentations (Powerpoints). His recommendation is to guide your readers to one presentation – or direct […]
Advanced LinkedIn: Using the Polls Application
What do your connections think? Let’s assume you have all your current potential new members as 1st degree connections in LinkedIn. Have you considered conducting a short poll among them and then sharing the information? Perhaps, you could do a poll with the current members of your group? Jan Vermeiren, in his Networking Coach’s Opinion […]
