Are you making the most of your profile on LinkedIn? I bet you aren’t, because LinkedIn is continually improving and there is far more to it than meets the eye.
Read on for resources for optimizing your presence and maximizing your results. First, here are some key LinkedIn experts you really need to follow to excel at using LinkedIn:
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Yumi Wilson
Yumi WIlson
Yumi Wilson is LinkedIn’s Manager of Corporate Communications and Top LinkedIn Innovator. Follow her on LinkedIn to find exceptional strategies. Be sure to check out her posts on LinkedIn while you’re there.
You can also listen to Yumi on The Social Network Show. Here is a recording of her interview on April 13, 2014. Tune in this Sunday on AM radio or listen online:
Yumi Wilson with Dr. J
AM 720 KDWN May 18, 2014 at 5:00 PM/PDT
and streaming worldwide at
http://www.kdwn.com/streamer/
Be sure to subscribe to The Social Network Show and follow them on Twitter to find out who their guests will be. The broadcast both on am radio and online.
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Viveka Von Rosen
Viveka von Rosen
Internationally known as a LinkedIn Expert, Viveka authored the book LinkedIn Marketing: An Hour a Day. She is featured in LinkedIn’s “Sophisticated Marketer” eBook. CEO of Linked Into Business, and co-founder of LinkedProspecting, she also hosts the biggest LinkedIn chat on Twitter.
Forbes has listed her as a top social media influencer, and she has been cited in Money Magazine, Ragan, CNN, Forbes, Mashable, The Miami Herald, Social Media Today and The Social Media Examiner!
You can follow Viveka on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/linkedinexpert. (You don’t even have to remember her name – just linkedinexpert.
I highly recommend subscribing to her LinkedIntoBusiness.com site as you will immediately receive many great tips and links via email.
LinkedIn Resources
- Important Social Networks – why I made LinkedIn #1
- LinkedIn: How to Maximize Results ~ Most Important Social Network
Don’t have time to learn it all yourself? We’re here to help. Ask questions in the comments or join our Social Implications Cooperative (SMsimp) where I am sharing answers and resources as Community Manager. I am LIVE in chat many hours every day. Come by and say hello.
Gail Gardner
I am glad i found this article – really great tips for up and coming sales professionals
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that is a nice feature especially if you you need to know something asap.
Hi Samir,
LinkedIn is heating up as “the” place to be. I encourage anyone serious about their career, business or online marketing to use the links at the bottom of this post to improve what they are doing there now. If you haven’t gotten started on LinkedIn yet, there is no time like now.
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I know many people would argue about this, but i found that LinkedIn is also the Best platform to advertise your business on,Even though the cost is relatively allot higher in comparison with Facebook and Google Adwords, with a minimum of 2$ per click,
Higher Cost and Less reach but the quality of the traffic is just Gold,
Making the most of your Business presence on LinkedIn is definitely something worth investing your time and resources on.
Best wishes!
Mitch
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LinkedIn is great service to promote business this is a great way to get huge traffic in my personal experience i got some sales from affiliate products in LinkedIn thanks Gail such a good posts
Great post i am going to follow those guys and wanna spread my business domain. Thanks for posting this useful information.
Wow, I will follow Yumi Wilson and Viveka. I hope I can use Linkedin to promote my business.
Hi Ustad,
The new features on LinkedIn make profiles far more powerful. The new blogging capability can get strong traffic and increase influence. Some argues with me when I wrote that LinkedIn was the most important social network, but it is more true today than it was when I first recommended it.
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great post….seems official nice work i like it
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This is awesome advice! I’ve been trying to get my clients to branch out and do this more. I’ve started piecing together a company post on LinkedIn, but it’s difficult to get people to transfer over to this idea of ‘another’ place to post fresh content.
Here’s an example of what I’ve been doing:
https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140407145204-29717428-how-to-master-e-commerce-on-pinterest?trk=prof-post
It is always great learn from the experts. I must admit that I am not making the most out of my LinkedIn presence. So I am open to learning more from these experts.Thanks for sharing Gail.
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Hi Jane,
Even those of us who have optimized our profiles fairly well learn new things every day. I just found out they have ‘LinkedIn Showcase pages’. Who knew? Many aren’t aware you can put videos in your profile.
The first thing to do is to claim a vanity URL that is easier to share. How-to instructions http://feigenson.us/blog/?p=998
How to video: http://www.aliciacowan.com/social-media-and-digital-marketing/linkedin/linkedin-claim-your-personal-url