Almost every business professional has a LinkedIn account but sadly, most are not active LinkedIn users. An active user is someone who logs into LinkedIn more than once a month. According to LinkedIn, active users increased to 40% last year, up from 23% which is great news. According to Hubspot, LinkedIn is 277% more effective More…
I see hundreds of LinkedIn profiles every day, some good, most horrible. What makes a good LinkedIn profile? I consider a LinkedIn profile good when it catches my attention and stands out from the thousands of other professionals who do what you do in a professional way. Catching my attention doesn’t mean using a seductive More…
This debate continues in my Business Accelerator Action Group. Is it better to have a small, medium, large or even extra-large (30K limit) network? There is no wrong or right answer. It depends on your objective for using LinkedIn. Here are a few of the pros and cons of each network Small Network Pros Very focused More…
When I meet people and tell them I’ve written three best-selling books about LinkedIn, they excitedly tell me “I’m on LinkedIn too and I have hundreds of people asking me to connect. What do I do with all of those invitations?” Well it depends… What’s your purpose for being on LinkedIn? When I wrote Ultimate More…
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LinkedIn and social selling expert, Melonie Dodaro, makes a bold statement in this edition of Social Selling TV. Melonie claims content marketing may hurt your business. What?Yes if you don’t have a content strategy and simply post content to post content, your business reputation may suffer. Melonie shares lots of other great LinkedIn and social More…
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Buy the eTextbook version of Ultimate Guide to LinkedIn for Business Third Edition if you have a Kindle.
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LinkedIn recently rolled out a major upgrade to their Company Pages. Now called LinkedIn Pages, were built from the ground up and the focus is building a community and meaningful conversations on your Page. Page admins can interact with people who are interacting with the content you post. This strengthens your community and fosters more More…
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Here’s the replay from today’s webinar with Eric Lofholm. Eric’s system is very simple and based on creating scripts for every step of the sales process. When you create your monthly sales goals and map out your step-by-step process, you’ll see measurable results in no time.
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In 2001, while I was finishing up my coaching certification at the Coaches Training Institute, I heard about a marketing guru who helped coaches get clients. At the time, I knew absolutely nothing about marketing because I was finishing a 20-year career in the IT world. Meet my very first marketing guru, Robert Middleton, who More…
My first deal from LinkedIn was… …doing a nude sketch for my first client. Sounds crazy doesn’t it? Well, Terrilynn Moore was starting a new career as an artist and she executed my simple LinkedIn system to get her very first client. You have to hear this story to believe it.
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