BRILLIANT LINKEDIN PREMIUM FEATURES (NOT)
People often ask me if they should pay for LinkedIn Premium Features. In return, I ask them about their use of the free LinkedIn features. Do you check the last 5 people who viewed your profile? What do you do with the insights you gain? Nothing? Why pay to see more?...
STAND OUT TO FIT IN
Putting my money where my mouth is. Recently I gave some talks about adding personality to your LinkedIn Profile. Stressing its important to Stand Out to Fit In, as you don't want to talk about a dream assignment only to find out later you and the prospective client...
LinkedIn Experience: 5 BIG Boo-boos (go fix ’em now)
The experience section of your LinkedIn Profile is SO NOT a copy/paste from your CV. This message does seem to slowly sink in, but there is a lot more to it than you might think at first. Read on to find out 5 things to pay attention to, and fix IMMEDIATELY in most...
Who viewed your profile? Jump straight to the interesting views!
LinkedIn outdid themselves again! Now when you check who viewed your profile, you can go straight to the INTERESTING views. With a free LinkedIn account you only see your last 5 visitors, which is quite manageable. On a paid account you get to see all profile views 90...
Talking LinkedIn Profile
Have you seen the talking LinkedIn Profile? Recently I noticed people replacing the logo on their company page for a gif which resulted in moving logos on personal profiles. I was not impressed. How about this though... have your profile picture talk to your visitor!...
Yes LinkedIn 2 step verification is annoying, so is having your account hacked!
I never bothered with LinkedIn 2 Step Verification. Are you kidding me? I had a great password, not to be guessed by humans or artificial intelligence. So why go through such an annoying process of having to wait for a text message to input when logging on? YIKES. I...
BUILDING BUSINESS THROUGH LINKEDIN (TOO SHY FOR ACQUISITION)
This post has a bit of a personal touch. Well, about 867 words or personal touch. OOPS. Normally my posts are around 200 words. In this post you’ll learn how building business through LinkedIn can be done without acquisition. I am too shy for acquisition, so I had to...
Which type of content on LinkedIn works best?
Or maybe I should ask, what type of content on LinkedIn gets you most engagement and views? I haven't looked at my stats much, let alone compare. I did want to show you though, that LENGTH of post really doesn't matter. What matters is: "Does your content resonate...
How to comment as YOU on your LinkedIn Company Page
If you are an admin of your own LinkedIn Company Page or the page of the company you work for, you might have run into this. Anytime you like, comment or share, you do so as the page instead of YOU from your personal LinkedIn Profile. There is an easy fix for that!...
LinkedIn Skills and Endorsements 2018
Skills and endorsement must be the topic I wrote about most often. Back in 2014, to let you know how to receive genuine LinkedIn Endorsements. Back then people still received suggestions that could be a bit off the mark. A year later you were able to read all about...