Several years ago, my young sister at the time (13 yrs old) was hit by a car and was paralyzed, she was a quadriplegic. For her (as there are varying degrees) meant she had no use of any limbs in any capacity. From a youthful snowboarder and ballerina at 5’11″ in 7th grade, she went from active and popular to an outcast, different and misunderstood.
I was thinking tonight about technology, how it was to provide us freedom, less stress, and all in all make life easier. I suppose to some extent that is true, but overall, is it? I suppose I’m too young to know what life was like without alot of the technologies we take for granite today. [...]
With all the great updates and improvements that LinkedIn has been doing lately, there is one in particular that caught my attention that I absolutely have to share! The new features in “Who’s Viewed My Profile” are worth taking a minute of your time to review right now. There are several different analytics within [...]
Creating a Cohesive Message on Your Profile Is it not true that we are all complicated with many talents and abilities? Of course it is! But that is not how people make decisions on working with us. An “all things to all people approach” is a death token to receiving communications from your target [...]
Recently I had a great conversation with a VC backed CEO of a multi million dollar company. He said to me (taking a little liberty on the quote as it was verbal)
“Nate, we don’t care about LinkedIn, Facebook, or Twitter, what we care about is building our business, adding revenues and lowering costs. If these social sites are tools that help do this, great, if not, let’s move on.”
I firmly agree with his sentiment in the quote. Please have a purpose and take into consideration the following list in developing your social strategy:
I was just recently asked this following question: Is it good to include as many people as possible in the LinkedIn network or add only people who we know or have met? It’s a challenging question for me because I think there are positives and negatives to both. Ideally, you would only be connected to [...]
This is a great quick and short video interview of Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn, discussing LinkedIn and confirming the three main revenue streams of the company.
Where most companies we work with make mistakes is they start developing their social sites, LinkedIn included, prior to the first 3 steps outlined below. The following is an excerpt from our upcoming release, “An Executives Guide to LinkedIn Mastery.”
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One of the most frequently asked questions we get about LinkedIn from over 10,000 submitted questions through our webinars, in posts, or directly by email is: How do I maximize my use of LinkedIn? In many ways this question resonates throughout the social platforms, but for today, let’s focus on LinkedIn. To answer the question [...]
Creating a system and plan of action is the most important thing you can do on LInkedIn to drive business. If you don’t, you will spend all your time answering questions that are irrelevant to your business objectives and end goals. As an Insurance Agent you are faced with a different set of regulations than [...]
In order to identify the most valuable top 20 groups on LinkedIn for business, we had to identify the areas of interest to businesses in this new social environment. Numbers don’t matter as much as quality, though they help! The measurements used to rank these groups are: Quality of content Size of the Group User [...]
As you are likely very aware, a couple days ago Haiti was hit by a 7.1 earthquake. Fatalities and injuries are tremendous with over 100,000 – and possibly as high as 500,000 – passing on and roughly 3,000,000 affected by this incident according to the Red Cross. I am writing this message to you not [...]
