Category — General LinkedIn tips

Clever, innovative LinkedIn tip for sales people – sports tickets

You have extra season tickets for Red Sox games. How you could use LinkedIn to help make great business connections, and maybe someday make some new referrals and sales.


February 17, 2012   2 Comments

LinkedIn using your picture to advertise products (social advertising)

LinkedIn may now use your picture to advertise other products. Change privacy settings if you don’t like this.


January 30, 2012   No Comments

LinkedIn training tip for sales – look at prospect’s interests

Before you call a prospect, check their interests. Or you can look for interests in a “reverse direction”


August 4, 2011   1 Comment

Social Media Speaker rap, LOMA Insurance conference (FMLI,FSSI)

This is a 90 second “rap” that I did in a social media keynote speech at the LOMA Insurance Conference in Las Vegas last October. And it ain’t worth 50 cent.


December 29, 2010   2 Comments

LinkedIn sales tip: search for the CEO titles that spelled chief wrong

Whether you want to make a sale, get a job, or network for business, it’s a good idea to be connected to powerful people like CEOs, but it’s tough to get their attention. Here’s a unique and original idea that might get you some positive attention from some CEOs and other Chief Officers.


November 19, 2010   2 Comments

LinkedIn training – get rid of annoying status updates, Twitter implications

LinkedIn just added a feature that allows you to “hide” status updates from people who post every time they add a new condiment to their sandwich.


April 30, 2010   1 Comment

LinkedIn expert tip – find people without paying $25

Want to find LinkedIn profiles for “out of network” people without paying LinkedIn $25? Here’s how you do it for free.


February 2, 2010   11 Comments

LinkedIn training tip – new feature for sales people – see who you know someone “through”

A subtle beta feature was added to LinkedIn that will save sales people time. If you “Search Companies”, it will now tell you who you know someone “through”.


December 22, 2009   No Comments

LinkedIn training tip – put the name of your city in text somewhere in your profile

Summary:

Put the name of your city (in text form) somewhere in your LinkedIn profile. Otherwise, you may not be found in searches.


December 17, 2009   2 Comments

LinkedIn and Twitter can now cross-post status updates, but it could be much more

LinkedIn and Twitter added a feature that allows you to cross-post, but it just embeds functionality that other software already had. Here are some limitations of LinkedIn status updates, and some features they should implement.


November 11, 2009   1 Comment