LinkedIn Creates Big Ego’s

 

Everything is Bigger on LinkedIn


Here I am at a family camp on Western night having to wear the Biggest Hat. Kinda like people on LinkedIn.

LinkedIn seems to create big egos! There I said it and some of you know exactly what I mean while others haven’t been on LinkedIn long enough to understand this statement. Let me explain, I often run across LinkedIn profiles that make the individual look like Mother Teresa’s mentor.  It starts with a  long list of multiple job titles and a specialist in about 20 different areas you will discover as you read their profile, sound familiar? [Read more...]

5 Linkedin Profile Tips That I Know Drive Results

Over the last year I have written about my experience and success with driving resultsLinkedin Strategies that have produced measurable results. While I often get very target specific on articles, this week I wanted to just provide five tips that will drive results for your profile.

Here are 5 (five) Tips that will drive Profile results on Linkedin:

1. Your Headline: Should communicate your focus and how you can help others. This is not the place to name the company you’re a part of. You are listing that in your current employment. Take mine for example, currently I have this as my headline (which is directly under your name)

“Sales & Marketing Director | Social Media Strategist focusing on Lead Generation, ROI, Optimization, and Brand Advocacy”

2. Label your websites! People are more likely to click web links that have a few keywords rather than “my website”. Simply go to edit and change them with the selection of “other” and follow it from there.

3. Public Profile Link: This should just be your full name at the end and no numbers or other data. Be sure to change this if it does not read similar to mine. http://www.linkedin.com/in/randyschrum  . This will give you a slightly better ranking on Google. (by the way have you googled your name lately?)

4. Your Summary: This is a summary of why you’re on Linkedin and how you can help others. Again communicate your focus.

5. Specialties: Load your specialties with very specific keywords that relate to your unique experience. Put some real thought into this as this will drive search results that may feature you when Linkedin users search for specific keywords. For example I did not just put sales in mine, I also listed “Strategic Account Management”, this is just one example of how targeted I have gotten on my specialties. This has paid major dividends for me.

Would you like to learn more Power User Linkedin Strategies? Join us for our next “No Cost” Linkedin Webinar this Thursday…45 Minutes of solid content and then a Q & A afterwards that has been known to last over an hour 4pm Eastern. All we ask if for you to register so we have enough space for the webinar.

Register Here for the Linkedin Power Users Strategy Webinar “No Cost” 4pm Eastern This Thursday

~Randy Schrum

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*Profile Overhaul: For $300 we will provide a Professional Profile Overhaul- Top to Bottom. To learn more email support@mycorporatemedia  with the subject “Profile Overhaul”.

*Lets connect on Linkedin, send me a connection invite at linkwithrandy@yahoo.com