Here are my Top 10 tweets from this past week, great for retweeting! If you missed these, follow me on Twitter. 3 great tips on how to use LinkedIn.With 200+ million members on LinkedIn you are really missing out if you are not using this professional social media platform to your advantage. Simple tips to… Read More
Don’t send ecards via LinkedIn direct messages
The last thing I want to see in my LinkedIn messages are ecards wishing me Happy New Year or even Happy Birthday, some that include music and blinking lights. I found three of them in a row just now when I checked my DMs. Here’s the kicker. In each case, I was one of a… Read More
Commenting in LinkedIn Groups? Link to your blog
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
5 ways to promote press releases on LinkedIn
Most people write a press release, upload to their website or one of the paid distribution sites, and then forget about it. Missed opportunities galore! One of the best ways to call attention to your release, assuming it’s for a business audience, is to promote it on LinkedIn five ways. I’ll be discussing them all,… 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