Top Five Ways to Use LinkedIn for Social Media Marketing LinkedIn can be a useful source for social media marketing. It is easy to use and free, with over 60 million members. This is a market where people expect to network, get to know different companies, and expand their own business circles. 1. As the business owner, once a personal profile has been set up and some friends and employees have been established in the network, it’s important to ask around from these connections for recommendations. 2. Since social media is founded in the interaction between people, it’s also just as important to give out reviews and recommendations to colleagues and to clients. 3. A personal network is great, and is important on LinkedIn for showing the authenticity of the company, but it won’t reach beyond that network. 4. Regular and consistent updates of a profile will keep it in the news feed, and can grab interest from connections. 5.
INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE. NEWS, COMMENTARY & INSIGHT LinkedIn: The Sky Is Falling (or is it?) | I'm On LinkedIn - Now What??? January 20th, 2009 | by Jason Alba | Over on the Career Resumes blog I just wrote about some of the bad stuff I’m hearing about with regard to LinkedIn. There is a post from Jaculynn Peterson titled LinkedIn’s soon-to-be-missed opportunity, which has some great points. I hear these points continually as people wonder what the heck LinkedIn is thinking. Of course, it’s their business, their model and their responsibility… not ours. But we have a vested interest as we spend our time deveping our networks and our relationships and our brand on their platform. 15 Tips To Optimize Your LinkedIn Initiative This is a guest post by Lior Levin. LinkedIn has enjoyed explosive growth since its debut in 2003. The real question is whether or not you’re making the most of your LinkedIn efforts and networking in general? LinkedIn is so much more than social networking for businesses and business people – it can totally change how you run your business as a whole. Here’s some of our favorite tips to get the most out of your LinkedIn experience: Be Professional Remember, you’re not on Facebook, Google+, or MySpace here – this is a social network for business professionals. If you take a look at your LinkedIn inbox, you’ll noticed that it’s more like an email inbox rather than a social networking message system. Also, the groups on Linkedin are not like your average Facebook group. Add Your Personality People want to know about the real you, not the person who you want them to think that you are. Your Profile Contribute Many people aren’t aware of the timeline on LinkedIn. Personalize Requests Stay Fresh
3 Ways Marketers Can Leverage the New LinkedIn Have you noticed the changes to LinkedIn recently? Although changes to LinkedIn are less frequent than on Facebook, they can have significant marketing implications. Read further to find out how the recent changes to LinkedIn impact your social media marketing. What’s New With LinkedIn? Recently the LinkedIn Homepage had a significant makeover. LinkedIn has made a few key design changes to make it easier to discover and discuss what matters most. As LinkedIn says in their recent blog post, Introducing a Simpler Homepage: “This is just the beginning of many more exciting, new features we plan to bring to the Homepage to offer more customization and functionality this year. Mashable refers to the new LinkedIn Homepage as a mash-up between Facebook and Google+. A Quick Overview of the LinkedIn Homepage Layout On your new homepage, you will first notice a blue box to click that will show you the most recent updates from your network. The top part of the new LinkedIn Homepage.
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LinkedIn and The Future of Business Networking - ReadWriteWeb In the heyday of the Facebook hype (it seems so long ago now!), Facebook was going to eat LinkedIn’s lunch. Based on recent experience, I don’t think so. I recently had reason to use LinkedIn seriously, using my existing network to tap into a market that I had not previously been exposed to. I had not used LinkedIn since the early days, so this was my first serious update. I have NOT used Facebook seriously. If Fred had used LinkedIn, he would have gotten a big response; possibly too big and that is a filtering issue that LinkedIn seems sensitive to. This is far more efficient than spamming all my contacts with a mass email saying “anybody know anybody in this role at these companies?” LinkedIn Reaches Nearly 80% of My Contacts LinkedIn links to Webmail services such as Gmail, Yahoo and AOL, which is a very effective way to increase their network scale. This also served a bit like a Plaxo update.
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