{"id":5969,"date":"2015-09-22T15:29:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T15:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/tips\/?p=5969"},"modified":"2024-04-30T20:21:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T20:21:08","slug":"strengthen-your-linkedin-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/tips-of-the-week\/strengthen-your-linkedin-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"Strengthen Your LinkedIn Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">Issue #953 Sept. 22, 2015<br \/> Publisher: Joan Stewart<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">&#8220;Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity&#8221;<\/h2>\n<h3><strong>In This Issue<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Strengthen Your LinkedIn Summary<\/li>\n<li>A Press Release or a Pitch?<\/li>\n<li>Free Roadmap for Teaching Online<\/li>\n<li>Hound Video of the Week<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>This Week in the Hound House:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At a reunion of 14 cousins over the weekend in Ohio, a cousin brought a photo of me, taken when I was about 3 years old, kissing my baby sister, Lois. I didn&#8217;t want to have to wait until Throwback Thursday so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10156056450745147\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I posted it to Facebook today.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>1. Strengthen Your LinkedIn Summary<\/h3>\n<p>What&#8217;s the ideal length of your LinkedIn Summary?<\/p>\n<p>If you aren&#8217;t using all 2,000 characters that are allowed, you&#8217;re missing the chance to snag journalists, bloggers, influencers and potential clients and customers who are searching LinkedIn for people just like you.<\/p>\n<p>I see far too many authors, in particular, giving short shrift to this all-important real estate. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Make sure your Summary includes the important keywords and keyword phrases that people will be typing into LinkedIn&#8217;s Advanced Search. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a &#8220;customer service expert,&#8221; use that phrase. If you write &#8220;historic Civil War romance novels,&#8221; say so. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Use your Summary to tell a story, list your accomplishments, and explain your ideal clients and how you help them. You can also mention that you&#8217;re an expert who the media can contact for background, story ideas and commentary on topics in your area of expertise.<\/p>\n<h3>2. A Press Release or a Pitch?<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5971\" src=\"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/Press-release-vs.-a-pitch4-300x151.jpg\" alt=\"Press release vs. a pitch4\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When a publicity idea pops into your head, your first inclination might be to write a press release.<\/p>\n<p>Which do you choose?<\/p>\n<p>Here are two blog posts I wrote that will help you decide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/the-pros-and-cons-of-press-releases-vs-pitches\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The pros and cons of press releases vs. pitches<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/when-to-use-a-press-release-and-when-to-deliver-a-pitch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">When to use a press release and when to deliver a pitch.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>3. Free Roadmap for Teaching Online<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5970\" src=\"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/globalempire.jpg\" alt=\"globalempire\" width=\"300\" height=\"119\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re an author, speaker, expert or you have knowledge that other people would pay you for, you&#8217;re in an ideal position to teach online.<\/p>\n<p>But you must know the critical steps between coming up with a good idea and teaching it.<\/p>\n<p>Danny Iny, who has built a 7-figure business teaching online, has a free 1-page roadmap you can follow, a slick infographic that summarizes, in step-by-step detail, how to build an online course. Save this flow chart and refer to it when you&#8217;re ready to add a new revenue stream to your business. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/go\/course-builders-roadmap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Access it here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>4. Hound Video of the Week<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5972\" src=\"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/JFL-Hidden-Camera-Pranks-Gags-Electrocuted-Puppy-YouTube-2015-09-24-08-46-47-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"JFL Hidden Camera Pranks &amp; Gags- Electrocuted Puppy - YouTube 2015-09-24 08-46-47\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vZiM-SuIxLA&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In this prank,<\/a> bystanders are made to believe their negligence caused the death by electrocution of a cute little puppy.<\/p>\n[Tweet &#8220;#PublicityTips from @PublicityHound&#8211;A Press Release or a Pitch?&#8221;]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h2>The Publicity Hound&#8217;s Tips of the Week<\/h2>\n<h3>&#8211; Issue #953 Sept. 22, 2015<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Strengthen Your LinkedIn Summary<\/li>\n<li>A Press Release or a Pitch?<\/li>\n<li>Free Roadmap for Teaching Online<\/li>\n<li>Hound Video of the Week<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/tips\/?p=5969\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/tips-of-the-week\/strengthen-your-linkedin-summary\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"rmlink\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":3,"wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[580,190,48,36,13],"class_list":{"0":"post-5969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tips-of-the-week","8":"tag-canonical-url","9":"tag-how-to-use-linkedin-company-pages","10":"tag-linkedin","11":"tag-pitching-the-media","12":"tag-press-releases","13":"entry"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/09\/Pinterest-slide-for-Tips-of-Week-2015Sept22.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/09\/Pinterest-slide-for-Tips-of-Week-2015Sept22.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}