Over the course of my practice, I have found it necessary to clearly delineate between one’s LinkedIn profile and LinkedIn presence. The two terms are used interchangeably, but are notably different. Let’s start with their respective definitions: Your LinkedIn profile is your point of access on the site. It is an electronic document warehousing your [...]
Every business needs to generate new leads consistently. Regardless if you are a business that focuses on B2B (business to business) or B2C (business to consumer), you are probably looking to hire, source new business, form strategic alliances or partnerships and/or get publicity. Unfortunately you, like many businesses, are not utilizing the power of LinkedIn. [...]
Congratulations to Michelle Gilstrap, Executive Director at Universal City North Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and winner of our fifth and final free LinkedIn profile makeover. Michelle’s LinkedIn profile has a long list of experience, recommendations and group memberships — so long that it maxed out the nifty plugin I was using to capture a screenshot of [...]
Our next free LinkedIn profile makeover winner is… (the envelope, please!) Bob Warren, founder of ResumeBear, a phenomenal (and free) tool for job-seekers. I won’t even try to describe it in a sentence or two — I wouldn’t do it justice. Just go check it out if you’re in the job market. Bob is a [...]
[LinkedIn Profile Makeover Week In Collaboration with Linked Intelligence] Congrats to our third free profile makeover winner, Karen Briggs! Karen is a freelance journalist, editor and photographer facing a dilemma that so many people have when it comes to LinkedIn. Karen is actively working as a freelancer, but also looking for full-time work. How do [...]
[LinkedIn Profile Makeover Week In Collaboration with Linked Intelligence] Congratulations to our Tuesday winner of a free LinkedIn profile makeover, Wayne Hurlbert, owner of Blog Business World, one of the oldest and most widely-read small business / entrepreneur blogs, and host of Blog Business Success, one of the longest-running shows on Blog Talk Radio. Wayne’s [...]
[LinkedIn Profile Makeover Week In Collaboration with Linked Intelligence] Our Monday winner for a free LinkedIn profile makeover is Steven Gonzalez, General Sales Manager at Radio One Philadelphia. Congratulations, Steven! We’ve got a “Before” screen capture of Steven’s LinkedIn profile below (click to zoom). As you’ll see, it’s pretty well filled out already, complete with [...]
LinkedIn Profiles are your resume to the world and your credibility & authority to your potential clients, peers and vendors. An optimized (read well put together) profile enhances visitors view of you, let’s your friends know about your successes you may have never brought up and much more. For the little effort it takes to get your [...]
Many of the Linked Strategies members have asked about identifying a fake profile and what they can do about it. Let me share a few obvious and not so obvious tactics used by fake profilers! The following are Red flags or Triggers for identifying fake LinkedIn Profiles: 1. Lower case first and last name 2. [...]
