It’s so easy to be forgotten today when we are not seeing each other in person on a regular basis. That means the onus is on you to maintain relationships
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How Taking Advantage of Low Hanging Fruit Can Yield Major Benefits in Your Marketing Efforts
A great benefit about marketing is that sometimes the lowest hanging fruit can yield major benefits with little effort.
First thing’s first, what does “low-hanging fruit” mean? It is “a thing or person that can be won, obtained, or persuaded with little effort.” Since we spend so much time and effort on most of our marketing and business development strategies, it’s nice when we don’t have to work so hard on everything all the time. Sometimes all it takes is picking up the phone, crafting a thoughtful email, using LinkedIn more strategically or just letting Google do the work for you.
Why You Must Google Yourself Regularly and Protect Your Online Professional Brand
Whether you like it or not, you are being Googled each day by clients, potential clients, the media, adversaries, referral sources, potential employers, your current employer, recruits, friends, family members, even a potential romantic partner – the list goes on. But most professionals aren’t regularly conducting Google searches on their own names, which is extremely risky in managing your online reputation and professional brand.
The lines between our personal and professional lives are getting blurrier by the day in today’s hyper-connected digital world. As a result, it’s imperative to take cautionary steps to protect your professional reputation and brand, while also embracing social media as a necessary networking, business development and branding tool, especially in today’s environment. Here’s how.
Why You Should Add Your Personal LinkedIn QR Code to Every Presentation, Pitch and Marketing Material
What if I told you that there was a cool visual way to view and then request new connections to your LinkedIn network and it was so easy that all you had to do was to hold up your smartphone and scan a QR code?
Well, it exists – pretty exciting, right? (it’s a relatively new feature that was introduced in June 2018) and many people don’t know about it, because LinkedIn doesn’t always do a great job of letting its users know when it makes enhancements to its platform. Take full advantage of this nifty tool and impress the lawyers with whom you work and your colleagues. Also – add this to every presentation you give from now on.
Reader Question Answered: How to I Restart a LinkedIn Company Page After a Year of Not Posting Anything on it?
I get a lot of social media questions, and I wanted to take the opportunity to answer them in a new “Ask Me Anything” regular series.
Here’s the first question…
Everything You Need to Know About LinkedIn Ads and Marketing Solutions
LinkedIn ads enable organizations to connect with the world’s largest community of business professionals by serving ad content to its members through a variety of products and platforms. Its marketing solutions allow advertisers to select specific characteristics to help them reach their ideal audience.
The ads you see on LinkedIn are targeted to provide content that is supposed to be relevant to you. Here’s the thing though, I don’t know about you, but I find the ads that appear in my LinkedIn news feed to be annoying most of the time.
Unfortunately there is no way to hide them or no level of membership that makes them disappear. But you do have control over your ad preferences. Here’s everything you need to know about LinkedIn ads and its marketing solutions.
How to Align Your Social Media Strategy to Your Business Development Goals
I’m often asked how to develop a social media strategy that is aligned to your business development goals, which is absolutely critical to ensuring that your content supports your big…
Why You Should Take the Time to Publish an Article
Summer Downtime Marketing and Business Development To-Do’s
The summer is a great time to reconnect with your network and focus on your business development and branding efforts. Here are some ideas on how you can do it…