LinkedIn’s Motive… Follow the Money! Post IPO

You know LinkedIn continues to make changes every month to the platform. Some good, some bad, some arguable both ways. Many have recently noted the removal of Recommendations and your websites from the top of your LinkedIn Profile. I would suggest this is a bad change for us as users, but a good change for LinkedIn based [...]

Chris Brogan’s Enormous Social Media Failure

If you know Social Media, then the name Chris Brogan is familiar to you. Chris is an author, journalist, marketing consultant, and frequent speaker about social media marketing and is considered one of the leading authorities in all things Social Media.  Recently Chris wrote a blog about why he chose to delete his LinkedIn account [...]

LinkedIn Profile Optimization

Your LinkedIn profile is not just a resume online! This is your professional presence to the world. The best part is, you can present yourself to the world exactly how you want (just keep it real and honest)! Your LinkedIn profile is the best opportunity online to put your professional foot forward to the world, [...]

LinkedIn for Consultants

If you are a consultant you probably already know the power of the LinkedIn platform and you probably understand that LinkedIn is a consultant’s most powerful tool online today. Here is a model on how to use LinkedIn for maximum benefit. 1.) First, build influence. Create an influential baseline for yourself or for your organization. [...]

LinkedIn For Business

With over 160 million members, LinkedIn has the most influential, affluent, and educated audience than leading business sites. Using LinkedIn for Business just makes sense. 60+ million users are in the United States of America 5+ million users are in Canada 31+ million users are in Europe 13+ million users are in India 2+ million [...]

How to add Video to Your LinkedIn Profile with SlideShare: Step by Step

Adding Video to your LinkedIn Profile is a tool many are unfamiliar with, however it can be a powerful way to differentiate yourself from the crowd. View my profile for videos on this topic. But after receiving so many questions on this topic, I figured I would lay out the steps here. You can add [...]

LinkedIn Insights: A Visit to LinkedIn’s Corporate Offices

Bill Gates said, “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” Few business owners take this advice of learning from their unhappy customers and LinkedIn is no exception. With the upmost appreciation for the platform (when it works) and the access it provides me to my markets and client’s markets, LinkedIn has a [...]

Reasons Why You Should Make Your “Company Page” on LinkedIn

How important is a company page on LinkedIn? Why should you make a company page in LinkedIn? Company pages have huge potential. Originally, they were nice to have and something you could easily set up, but they are advancing with new additions such as the “Follower” feature and “Status Updates” as new tools to help [...]

LinkedIn Statistics

Check out this LinkedIn Statistics video about LinkedIn and it’s potential! Please share it with your friends and leave your comments below. Click Here to Watch Slower Version Leave Your Comments Here          

5 Simple Ways to make the Most of your Time on LinkedIn™

Have you ever found yourself just thinking LinkedIn is just too complicated and requires way too much effort for the apparent reward? This conversation is not uncommon between my clients and I. They tell me things like, “It’s Interesting, but I don’t know where I will find the time!” “I have had some success with [...]

LinkedIn: Who’s Viewed My Profile – Updates December 2010

With all the great updates and improvements that LinkedIn has been doing lately, there is one in particular that caught my attention the most. It’s the Who’s Viewed My Profile feature. There are several different analytics within this feature that will no doubt come in handy for you and keep you or your company going [...]

Who’s Viewed My Profile: October 2010 Updates

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 [...]

LinkedIn Open Networking?

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 [...]

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