How to Share Your LinkedIn Profile – tutorial
Quite often, I will follow a link in an email footer or people will send me a link to their LinkedIn profile and it will take me nowhere or to my OWN profile, instead of theirs! That is because they are linking to the URL at the top of their
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Social Media Mise en Place
‘Mise en place’ is a French phrase meaning “putting in place”. It is usually used in the context of food preparation but I do think that the concept can help ensure your social media marketing success as well! If you have ever watched a cooking show on TV, you have
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Too Many Retweets?
Are you seeing too many retweets in your Twitter stream? If you are active on Twitter, you are probably following at least one person who seems to retweet EVERYthing they see in their stream. If they are really random and not adding value, you may want to just un-follow them,
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Start the New Year off RIGHT with a Social Media Check-up!
One of the biggest problems people seem to have with Social Media is that they feel like it is a waste of time. Especially when using Social Media to build your business. And in many, many cases, it IS! If you are spending hours each week (or worse, each DAY!)
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Finding Time to Manage Your Social Media Presence
One of the biggest challenges to successfully using Social Media for business, is finding time to MANAGE your social media presence on a regular basis. Here are some suggestions on how to best use ‘interstitial space’, those free minutes during your day, to effectively manage your social media presence. As
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LinkedIn ‘People you May Know’ feature – Question and Answer
People are often curious about the LinkedIn ‘People you May Know’ feature. Here is a great client question related to this issue, along with my answer:
How to Deal with Personal Facebook Friend Requests from Business Acquaintances
I recently received this question from a client: Q: I often receive personal Facebook Friend requests from Business Acquaintances – they ARE people I would like to do business with but I am not comfortable ‘friending’ them personally – should I accept?
How to Upload a Slideshare to Your LinkedIn Profile
You can upload a Slideshare to your LinkedIn profile to display presentations, a portfolio of artwork, images and/or reports. By hosting your content on Slideshare, it is set-up for easy social sharing (there are share buttons as well as info to facilitate linking to the content and embedding it) and
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How to Stop LinkedIn from Prompting You to Endorse People
Many clients of mine seem to be annoyed by the blue box that pops up every time you visit LinkedIn, asking you to ‘Endorse’ one of your connections. Here is some good news; you CAN turn this off! Here is how to stop LinkedIn from prompting you to endorse people
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Liking, Commenting and Sharing on LinkedIn
I suggest that people try to ‘like’, ‘comment’ and/or ‘share’ something posted in their news stream, each time they visit their LinkedIn page. This activity helps you engage with your community, helps amplify the original message and is an easy way to keep your newstream active without having to create
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