Posts about the professional business network, LinkedIn
Stories Sell, Lists Are Boring As the saying goes, “Facts tell, stories sell”. Most LinkedIn profiles I look at are about facts: I had this job, the job had these duties, I had another job after that, the job had these duties…. I have these skills, I have these other skills, I have this university…
In a previous post, “Are You Making This Basic LinkedIn Mistake?” I asked “Are you making the mistake of having a LinkedIn network mainly made up of friends, colleagues, and industry peers?” That’s easy enough to do, but it’s not a smart use of LinkedIn. In this post I provide a basic LinkedIn network building strategy, probably too basic for…
Are you making the mistake of having a LinkedIn network mainly made up of friends, colleagues, and industry peers? It’s easy enough to do. It’s the path of least resistance.
A client asked the other day, “Who actually sees what I post on the LinkedIn publishing platform?” This was referring to the blog posts we can now publish directly on LinkedIn, as distinct from updates we might post with links to blog posts on our own sites. I posted here yesterday on the practical steps…
The LinkedIn Publishing Platform Early last year, LinkedIn opened its publishing platform – its blog, if you will – to all English-speaking members and more recently (Jan 2015) signalled that members speaking other languages would also have access. Previously, the privilege had been available only to a select group of “Influencers” such as Sir Richard…
No one likes rejection. So why do so many LinkedIn users actually invite rejection instead of connection, by using one or other of LinkedIn’s pre-set, canned, boilerplate invitations? Simple system explained.