A hat tip to Jose Nieves, a fellow member of the Problogger Professional Bloggers group on LinkedIn, for this fabulous tip about how to pull more traffic from within groups to your blog or website. You can find him at CreateaBloginMinutes.com. Type the URL under your signature. Is this simple, or what? Here’s a way… Read More
Dog Tweets—6 tips for a more powerful LinkedIn summary
Here are my Top 10 tweets from this past week, great for retweeting! If you missed these, follow me on Twitter. 6 tips for a more powerful LinkedIn summary. [I strengthened mine after reading this.] http://ow.ly/eiIDi 14 techniques to get quoted in the press. http://ow.ly/ejucZ 5 ways to leverage breaking news in a press release.… Read More
Dog Tweets—LinkedIn Launches New Company Page Design
Here are my Top 10 tweets from this past week, great for retweeting! If you missed these, follow me on Twitter. 6 easy steps for authors to build an email list of devoted fans. http://ow.ly/dub4c 14 terrible mistakes you’re making on LinkedIn. http://ow.ly/dtL0b PR Job Opening: Director of Public Affairs, Winthrop Hospital, Mineola, NY. http://ow.ly/doAqL… Read More
How LinkedIn’s Alumni tool unlocks a company’s doors
You’re trying to get into a company that needs your products or services. But you don’t know anyone who works there, and you don’t want to be a pest by making a cold call. What to do? Wayne Breitbarth, author of the Number One best-selling book on LinkedIn, says you have several options. You can… Read More
Dog Tweets — 4 LinkedIn power tools most are using incorrectly
Here are my Top 10 tweets from this past week, great for retweeting! If you missed these, follow me on Twitter. 7 tips on the care & feeding of the media the day of your special event. http://ow.ly/d6xfG Twitter tips for newbies. http://ow.ly/d6oNk Best Tools To Measure And Improve Your Social Influence… And Klout. http://ow.ly/d7lVR … Read More
Authors: Lasso your book blurbs, put them on LinkedIn
Admit it. You feel like I do—way too busy and far too hassled—to stop and recommend somebody on LinkedIn when they ask you to, even though the tan bar says “It only takes a minute.” You and I both know we’re sometimes tempted to slave away at these recommendations much longer than we need to,… Read More
Dog Tweets—8 Ways to Get the Biggest Marketing Bang Out of SlideShare
Here are my Top 10 tweets from this past week, great for retweeting! If you missed these, follow me on Twitter. 8 Ways to Get the Biggest Marketing Bang Out of SlideShare [Love Tip #4 for capturing leads] http://ow.ly/aLJGG How to Use Facebook Ads to Get More Quality Leads and Attract More Blog Traffic. http://ow.ly/aLP4N… Read More
Dog Tweets — The very best way to receive a LinkedIn recommendation
Here are my Top 10 tweets from this past week, great for retweeting! If you missed these, follow me on Twitter. Retailers are missing where the customers REALLY are on Facebook. Are you? http://ow.ly/9saIt Too many authors give up after only 1 publisher rejects their title. Big mistake. Here’s why. http://ow.ly/9uoJu The very best way… Read More
Add volunteer experience to your LinkedIn profile
You can now beef up your LinkedIn profile by adding any volunteer experience, a list of causes that you care about, and any organizations you support. After all, volunteering is as good for your career as it is for those you help. And your volunteer efforts are one more way to generate publicity. Here’s how to add this new… Read More
The Top 13 self-defeating practices on LinkedIn
If you’re on LinkedIn, and even if you have an impressive number of connections, you might be making critical mistakes that are robbing you of the ability to make those connections work for you. The Business2Community blog lists its Top 10 Self-Defeating LinkedIn Practices, such as a boring or outdated profile, using the site to… Read More