When a business associate told me last week that she couldn’t understand why LinkedIn froze her account, especially because she invited only a few dozen people to connect within several months, I had a pretty good idea how that happened. Three out of four of the people who invite me to connect with them on… Read More
How to create an effective strategy on LinkedIn
By Joan Stewart If you’ve just started networking on LinkedIn, the site can be a little intimidating. And you might be stumped about how to create an effective strategy on a site that’s so big. The best place to start is with LinkedIn’s three-step New User Starter Guide. It gives a quick summary, with links, to the… Read More
Distinguish yourself from your company in your LinkedIn profile
Your LinkedIn Profile Summary: How to Distinguish Yourself from Your Company By Brenda Bernstein The Essay Expert One of the biggest mistakes I see people make in their LinkedIn profiles is that they do not distinguish who *they* are from who their *company* is. I call this “conflating” yourself with your company. “Conflating” is a… Read More
Social media time-saver: Turn a LinkedIn Q&A into a video
Stop spending precious time creating original content for all your social media sites. Here’s a valuable shortcut—a quick way to use expertise you’ve already shared with somebody, and turn it into a video. Several months ago, on LinkedIn, I answered a question about all the ways an author could use Twitter to promote a book. I… Read More
Job-hunter offers $6,000 finder’s fee on LinkedIn
If you’re unemployed and desperate, it’s time to muster a little creativity, stage a kick-butt publicity stunt, and call on your LinkedIn connections to help land the perfect job. Enter Beverly Shepard, who has been job-hunting for 16 months and jobless since January when The Virginia-Pilot newspaper eliminated her job as marketing manager and her entire department. Here’s her… Read More
Am I stingy by not answering a LinkedIn question? You decide
When I checked my email this morning, somebody who I know invited me to answer a question she had posted at LinkedIn. She was asking for suggestions on how to promote something. Just as I started to answer it, I noticed that she was asking for a private answer, not a public one. I stopped in mid-sentence, left… Read More
How to get Google juice from your LinkedIn profile
The more inbound links to your website from authoritative websites, the more authoritative Google judges your own website and the more traffic it will deliver. And you get extra points from Google as well as traffic if those links include hyperlink text. For example, if someone links to my website at PublicityHound.com, I’d much rather… Read More
Use LinkedIn to promote–ethically and powerfully
Some people collect LinkedIn connections like they collect pennies in a big, empty mayonnaise jar. They add them one by one, watching the pile of names grow bigger and bigger. They keep track of how many connections they’ve made. And they feel pretty darn good when their list grows to 100. ..300…500 names and beyond.… Read More
Journalists search LinkedIn for ideas, topics, trends—and dirt
If you have a profile on LinkedIn, don’t be surprised if a journalist calls and says she found you there. Could be she’s an investigative reporter who’s digging up dirt on your former employer. Or maybe she’s just looking for story ideas, did a search at the site and your profile popped up. Check out 10… Read More
LinkedIn can provide comments from experts
When you’ve got a great headline for a how-to article you want to write, and you’re looking for experts to provide background or commentary on your topic, consider LinkedIn, the most popular social networking site for business people. Copyblogger explains that LinkedIn gives you access to millions of experts throughout the world—many of whom are eager to be quoted… Read More