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 […]
Should You Belong to LinkedIn Groups?
Steve Tylock on the LinkedIn Personal Trainer Blog described the importance of LinkedIn Groups. He did a survey and found that one-third of individuals responding belonged to 26-50 groups, and just a handful didn’t belong to any groups. You’re probably a member of the Vistage Group in the US, or the Canadian TEC Group, or […]
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 […]
Finding New Members - Pre-Course Homework
A lot of chairs have raised their hand and expressed interest in our 30-day Chair Course for Finding Members Through Social Media. Many Chairs have asked “How do I determine or measure whether what I’m doing to find and attract new members is successful?” We’ve created a Self-Assessment Scorecard to benchmark and rate yourself on […]
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 […]
Are You Connected to Your Members on LinkedIn?
If you’re not connected to the vast majority of your CEO members, you’re making networking much too hard. Let’s break this down into two components: 1. Looking at the networks of your members and their Trusted Advisors. 2. Convincing your members who are not on LinkedIn or barely using it – to get their entire […]
