Your LinkedIn Profile vs. Your LinkedIn Presence

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 [...]

Top 10 Ways to Use LinkedIn for Business

1.)    Link your status updates with your other social media accounts. Share status updates on your LinkedIn profile and link this with your other social media accounts such as twitter, facebook, etc. By doing this, you are increasing your market’s Top of Mind Awareness. 2.)    Start a  group for you brand or business Starting and [...]

Why Use LinkedIn to Increase Conversions and Create Inbound Leads?

LinkedIn, with over 135million members worldwide, is continuously growing a social network and platform. People use LinkedIn mostly because they want increase conversions and leads for their businesses. But not all people can see the great things LinkedIn can do for them and their businesses so I decided to write down the top reasons why [...]

11 Reasons You Should Use LinkedIn for Your Business

I got serious about using LinkedIn several years ago after learning of the “Real Value of LinkedIn” during a course that I was going through that really helped me understand the business case the platform.  The insights about revamping my own profile showed me I needed to really make it top notch with the understanding [...]

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.”

The Business Model of a Newborn

Wow, I just found this blog post that I forgot to finish and publish just after my son was born (about 10 months ago).  This post really meant alot to me, so I wanted to make sure I still shared it with you all.  Here is the post:

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 [...]

How to Achieve Success & Develop Business on LinkedIn

Gaining credibility and developing messaging “allies” are critical factors in achieving success and developing your business on Linked In. In order to achieve success for your business on LinkedIn, you must do the following: Take control of your Image and Likeness – Make sure your profile matches your message Get by Giving – send out [...]