20 Success LinkedIn Tips

What does your profile say about you?

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20 Tips to Becoming Successful on LinkedIn – Refreshed and Expanded

1.  Treat your LinkedIn profile like a website:

Make sure it is formatted, clean, and free of spelling and grammatical errors.  I strongly suggest creating your LinkedIn profile first in a word document – not only so you can “catch” errors, but also so you can get a better idea of what your profile will look like on the LinkedIn website.  In some sections of LinkedIn you can also pull in bullets and special characters.  Alas – still no bolding or italics other than what LinkedIn itself formats. Another bonus, if you’ve already created your profile in a Word document, sections of it can easily be copied into other social media platforms to keep your branding unified.

2.  Know your keywords: Read more at linkedintobusiness.com

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Get Your News From Your Friends

LinkedIn just added "LinkedIn Today" where you get a news page based on your connections, your industry and what companies you care about.

Best of all, it's fully customizable.

Look at the automated page, then tweak it so you get exactly the news you need.

Have you tried it?

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How to Add Video To Your LinkedIn Profile

@lewishowes is the smartest LinkedIN user I know.

Proving it once again here.

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Step 1.  Create SlideShare.net Account and add application on LinkedIn Step 2.  Upload a video to YouTube Step 3.  Upload a presentation to your SlideShare account Step 4.  Insert your YouTube link in the first slide of your presentation Step 5.  Publish the SlideShare presentation on your profile Read more at www.lewishowes.com

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Heat Up Your LinkedIn Profile: @KeithFerrazzi talks to @ChrisBrogan

Social media isn't much if it's not social.

Be something more than a cold boring resume.

Read @ChrisBrogan's advice and make your profile more you.

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“Make sure you’re really in to LinkedIn, not just using it as just as a cold, stiff place to stick your profile. It’s not just a resume online. It’s a place where you’re actually angling towards your future. If you’re seeking out some different kind of opportunity and your previous experiences don’t even include a line-up to it, we then write the experiences such that they highlight the parts that do a line-up to it.

So for example, you are, I don’t know, a professional baker and you’re trying to get into the baking world and out of your old corporate job, then what you talk about is, you know, that you used to be a senior project manager of this organization and that during very difficult project meetings, you’d bring in your fresh baked whatevers – tell that story. My point is that your LinkedIn profile can speak of language that drives people to what they think they can do for work with you and how they should be viewing you, how they can couch you. The language of your LinkedIn profile is a very active, fluid thing that allows you not to gloss over bad parts of your past or anything like that but just to keep focusing people towards where you want things to go. Read more at www.keithferrazzi.com

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New from @LinkedIn: Recommend Products on Company Pages

Product or service recommendations from one’s professional peers are among the most trusted forms of product information. They play a critical role in helping professionals cut through the clutter in making time-sensitive decisions about key purchases.

Making intelligent recommendations helps define your professional persona as an influencer and helps you build credibility with potential employers, partners and colleagues. Most importantly, it offers additional value to your network of connections who may be looking for your recommendation before they make their next purchase.

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Recommend your favorite products and services on LinkedIn Company Pages

We’re really excited to be launching Company Pages with over 40 companies globally ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. These include HP, Microsoft Corporation, Samsung Electronics America, AT&T Business Solutions and Dell in the US, Philips in Europe, Volkswagen in India and more. The initial feedback from companies has been extremely positive. Here’s HP’s Chief Marketing Officer Michael Mendenhall: “LinkedIn is a pioneer in harnessing the power of social media and brands can benefit tremendously from participating in this networking of leading professionals.”

Moving forward, we’ll continue to profile great examples of Company Pages on our blog. In the meanwhile, check out your own company’s page at http://www.linkedin.com/companies/. Read more at blog.linkedin.com

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Hearing Voices

Today I've been networking with some of my heavily connected friends... trying to stay more connected myself

Good to do this once in a while. No agenda, just a phone call or email to see how I can help.

As usual, the results were immediate. A couple of new clients. and more news that LinkedIn Networking is adding new connections automatically for me (over 3 million now).

And then this..