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
How to Grow Your LinkedIn Network During Social Distancing and Beyond
While social distancing has made it more challenging to build relationships that will turn into referrals and new clients, it is not impossible, thanks to social media, particularly LinkedIn.
Your
What to Do During Downtime to Build Your Brand and Business
This is not the year to take a break from marketing during the summer. Even under the best circumstances, it’s incredibly important to ensure your clients are happy and that
Five Small Yet Impactful Actions to Take on LinkedIn Today
I talk about the professional benefits of LinkedIn all the time – for years in fact – and there’s never been a more important time to make LinkedIn part of
New LinkedIn Feature: How to Share Someone’s Profile (or Your Own Profile) with Your Connections
I wanted to dedicate a post to a newish LinkedIn feature that enables the platform’s users to spotlight other members of their LinkedIn network by sharing someone’s profile with their
10 Easy Ways to Use Social Media to Build Your Business and Brand
Here are 10 quick tips on how to use social media to build your business and brand for any size company or individuals looking to enhance their profile, which you
Why Your Employees and Colleagues Hold the Key to Your Content Success
For true social media success, it’s not enough to post strong content to your firm’s social media accounts, you also need to tap into the critical social networks of your
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.
LinkedIn 101: Master Profile Basics, Build Your Professional Brand and Generate New Business
Use the summer and this time working remotely to make enhancements to your LinkedIn profile and your LinkedIn branding and marketing plan.
LinkedIn is the most important social media channel
Join Me for the August LinkedIn Connections Challenge: How to Cultivate a Powerful LinkedIn Network
LinkedIn has never been more important than it is right now – not only because it has nearly 700 million users globally, but because during this time of social distancing, and this pause in in-person networking –social media is the most effective (and efficient) way to build your brand and business.
LinkedIn is a great place to network with other professionals who could become business partners, referral sources, clients and employees or employers.
While quality is always better than quantity when it comes to the number of LinkedIn connections you have, most business professionals who use LinkedIn can greatly increase their connections with a strategic plan.
Join me in spending the month of August strategically building your LinkedIn network. Aim to get to at least 501 connections (which will add the coveted 500+ connections mark right on your profile instead of your actual number of connections – some believe those LinkedIn users with 500+ connections are somehow more accomplished). I know all of you know more than 500 business professionals out of the millions who are using LinkedIn. If you’re already at the 500+ mark, aim to increase your connections by 10 percent this month. Here’s a plan for how to do this for business professionals of all levels and in all industries.