Professional network

LinkedIn: Great People To Connect With

There are currently 50 million LinkedIn account holders. How do you determine which of those 50 million you should connect with? I recommend that you use LinkedIn to maintain current business & networking relationships and build new ones.  Great people to connect with are: customers suppliers co-workers referral partners people you meet at chamber mixers [...]

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Only 9 Seats Left For LinkedIn Workshop In San Diego

Workshop Title:   How To Use LinkedIn To Grow Your Network & Your Business About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is the largest business networking website for professionals with approximately 45 million members.  By having a complete, search optimized profile on LinkedIn and participating in the community, you can use LinkedIn to: build and  maintain business relationships increase your [...]

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5 Ways To Build Your Online Network Offline & Increase Your Conversion Rate

Once you have your social networking profiles set-up and populated with quality content, you should encourage your offline connections, prospects and customers to connect with you online.  Here are a few ideas on how to do this: Add links to your most important social networking profiles in your email signature so they are part of [...]

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The Best Invitation To Connect I’ve Seen!

I previously wrote a blog titled “How To Invite Someone To Connect Online“.  If you click on the link to read it and then come back to this post, this post will make more sense. I just had to share this invite that I received through LinkedIn: Hi Kimberly, I’ve been reading some of your [...]

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Recommended Business Networking Books

Unfortunately many people say they do a lot of business networking when all they really do is talk about themselves at networking events and see how many business cards they can collect (only to be forgotten or thrown away).  If you want to learn how to do business networking the right way, I recommend the [...]

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View History of LinkedIn Status Updates

Many social networking sites change regularly as new features are added and bugs are fixed.  Some sites seem to change on a weekly basis.  I just noticed something in LinkedIn that I had never noticed before.  I’m not sure if it’s a new feature or has been really well hidden for a long time. Login [...]

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6 Keys to Success on LinkedIn

For me, LinkedIn has been great for strengthening and maintaining current referral partner & customer relationships, establishing credibility through recommendations, developing relationships with prospects, establishing an online connection with new people I meet at networking events and generating interest by providing useful information and being active on LinkedIn. I don’t search for people to connect [...]

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Survey Says: LinkedIn Gets Results

I recently asked LinkedIn members to share their success stories or results that they’ve achieved because of using LinkedIn.  Reason being, I am working on a recorded webinar on How To Use LinkedIn for Business and I want to use examples of success other than my own. Here are some of the results and success [...]

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How To Invite Someone to Connect Online

If you are reading this blog, I’m sure you would like to use sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Biznik and other social networking sites to grow your business.  If you are on these sites, have you ever received an invitation from someone that says, “I’d like to add you to my professional network on _______”?  [...]

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