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 [...]

Have you seen the LI & Business Magazine yet? I have a free subscription for you if you want it.

Two months ago I shared that I had something exciting “brewing” that I would be sharing soon. Well, today I am ready to announce the details… I was asked to join a team of the absolute TOP MINDS in business and social media as the Executive Editor of Linkedin & Business Magazine. This group was banding together to [...]

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 Strategy: The 7 Phases of a LinkedIn Master Strategic Plan

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.”

LinkedIn™ Ninja’s! I mean Power Users Strategies

For the highest and best use strategies and tactics, Sign up for our complimentary LinkedIn™ Power User Strategies Webinar and save yourself from floundering through the LinkedIn™ learning curve. Find out exactly what the LinkedIn™ Power Networkers are doing so you can experience immediate results!

LinkedIn Members #1 Most Frequently Asked Question

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 [...]

7 Steps to Generating Real, Targeted, and Profitable Business from LinkedIn: For Insurance Agents

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 [...]

Top 20 Recommended Linkedin Groups for Business

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 [...]

Your Social Media Campaign Will Fail If…

Recently I received a post from a LinkedIn user who was quite bitter about Social Media.  This sentiment is not that uncommon amongst my executive contacts and many of the very successful business owners I know. I understand how at face value, social media seems like a big cluster of chaos.  I mean really, how [...]

How to use LinkedIn to Build an Advisory Board

LinkedIn has been the best place to connect with people I never would have met otherwise. I love this media vehicle to accomplish all sorts of business objectives. One of the many things I use LinkedIn for is creating sustainable, real, and valuable relationships with people I would be interested in having on my advisory [...]

LinkedIn Statistics 2009: Why You Must Master LinkedIn

LinkedIn has “The worlds largest audience of affluent, influential professionals.” ~ Nielsen Online Here are some of the Statistical Highlights on LinkedIn that you really need to know for your business or professional objectives. Average Age: 43 Male / Female: 54% / 46%Average Household Income: $107,278 Average Household Income $100k+    51.8% | 6,467,000 Average Household Income $150k+   [...]

5 Steps to Improve Your LinkedIn™ Invitation Practices

Here are some suggestions you might try to incorporate into your current Invitation practices to reduce the chances of future restrictions. I hope you find this information helpful Write personalized messages for all future Invitations. Personalized Invitation messages can remind people how you know them or where you met. This can be done during the [...]

The 10 LinkedIn™ Strategic Steps to Success

No matter what your interest, whether you are looking for new customers, a job, new leads, more credibility, a board of advisors, or more money, LinkedIn is a tool that can help you achieve these goals quickly and easily. The following are the 10 LinkedIn Strategic Steps to Success: Take control of your Image and [...]

LinkedIn: Are you Crazy!

A new friend and manager of the Linked Strategies Group, Sean Nelson, posts very valuable content on his blog (or should I say previous blog) for the LinkedIn community.  His blog, LinkedIntuition.com, was one of the most popular blogs on LinkedIn, rivaling the Giants own blog traffic! He did/does this blog to help, give back, [...]

The 7 Steps to Generating Real, Targeted, and Profitable Business from LinkedIn

Creating a system and plan of action is the most important thing someone can do on LinkedIn to drive business. If you don’t, you will spend all your time answering questions that are irrelevant to your end goals. In order, the following 7 steps will drive you the most business on LinkedIn: Know your objectives [...]

Build your Social Credibility on LinkedIn

I was thinking about how so many people on LinkedIn are just confused about where to start. It is obvious from all of the questions we receive that LinkedIn users are not sure where how to best utilize this wonderful tool. A person’s time on LinkedIn can be wasted quickly if the strategies are done [...]