10 Easy Ways to Optimize LinkedIn for Your Small Business Optimizing your profile and presence on LinkedIn is easy once you understand how people really use the platform. I teach my clients that LinkedIn is today’s version of a Whitepages or
The 10 Things I Do on LinkedIn Each and Every Week
Today, after speaking at an event where 80{60023c7b1960a5fb9dae172379ca3153ba00fa4679a2b03978f428523be766b5} of the room was hardly leveraging LinkedIn at all, I thought I’d share the 10 things I do on LinkedIn each and every week as inspiration for others to do more on
LinkedIn 101: An Irresistible Profile [INFOGRAPHIC]
Another fun infographic, this one shared via The Undercover Recruiter. The folks at Social@Ogilvy did a great job illustrating five of the tips I share in my DIY LinkedIn Profile Audit Checklist. I owe them! You can download it via this
SF Headshot Days Are Coming! May 2013
Headshot Days May 2013: San Francisco Welcome to the Headshot Days information page! With social networking sites like LinkedIn being such an important part of how we connect with one another, having a professional headshot is simply no longer optional.
The New LinkedIn Profile: Why Your Summary Matters More Than Ever
With the recent changes to the LinkedIn profile causing a seismic shift in the social networking universe (kidding! totally exaggerating), I thought I’d take a minute to comment on one of the things that has now taken center stage as
What constitutes a complete LinkedIn profile?
Fact: LinkedIn users with complete profiles are 40 times more likely to receive opportunities through LinkedIn. (This is partly because complete profiles get ranked higher when someone does a search.) Fact: A recent Jobvite survey found that 93{60023c7b1960a5fb9dae172379ca3153ba00fa4679a2b03978f428523be766b5} of recruiters
How to edit the Headline on your LinkedIn profile
Yesterday, I presented what I call a DIY LinkedIn Profile Audit at the SFPCN meet-up in San Francisco. It was a fun as well as interesting training session because I had an audience at all levels of LinkedIn knowledge. One
A few more LinkedIn Tips
I thought I’d said all I could say about LinkedIn, but, boy, was I wrong. Back by popular demand: 10 ways to use LinkedIn to help with your job search A Happier Networking Season with LinkedIn This is a good
Are your LinkedIn Skills Up To Snuff?
LinkedIn rolled out another new feature this week and I found it worth more than a few minutes of my time. It’s called LinkedIn Skills, and within LinkedIn’s powerful social networking tool, you can now conduct a search and produce
Learning to Love LinkedIn Tip #6
If you haven’t set up a PUBLIC profile on LinkedIn, it’s time. And since the system generates a random URL for your profile, you definitely want to change it to something more coherent as well as search engine optimized. For