Podcast #230 – LinkedIn Made Simple – FAT Strategies in a Thin Book Description: This week I am speaking with my two friends Ryan Rhoten and Andy Foote. Ryan is a brand specialist with CareerBrand and Andy is an Advanced LinkedIn Strategy coach with LinkedInInsights.com. Together they are the co-authors of the book LinkedIn Made […]
How to Be Engaging and Courageous on LinkedIn with Kevin Turner [Podcast]
Podcast #217 – Learn from Kevin Turner on How to be Engaging and Courageous on LinkedIn to Revise your Personal Brand Description: Our guest speaker, Kevin D. Turner, is an organizational and personal branding phenom. After honing his skills at SONY, Stone VC, American Teachers, Thomas Nelson, and the AHA, he opened his own branding […]
LinkedIn Strategies in a Time of Pandemic with Andy Foote [Podcast]
Episode #191 – Andy Foote from LinkedInsights.com Discusses Strategies on Using LinkedIn Description: This week, I will interview Andy Foote of Linkedinsights.com and the Foote-notes podcast. Andy and I discuss what you need to know about how LinkedIn works in this time of a pandemic. The LinkedInsights about page states: Author “3 Stunningly Good LinkedIn […]
Do You Have a LinkedIn Profile Update Strategy?
LinkedIn Profile Update Strategy? You have plans to update your LinkedIn profile, but do you have a strategy on how you will leverage the update? If you turn on Sharing Profile Edits in your LinkedIn settings, all of your LinkedIn connections will be told that you have updated your profile. I know, I know you have been […]
Do Others Prejudge You Based on Your LinkedIn Profile? [Updated]
Do You Prejudge Someone After Looking at their LinkedIn Profile? Do you prejudge people? If you say no … well, I do not believe you. We all do whether we like to believe it or not. Thom Singer’s keynote speech at Product Camp Austin 14 was on how someone decided to prejudge him based on […]
How Do I Increase Targeted LinkedIn Profile Views?
Targeted LinkedIn Profile Views? We all want more LinkedIn profile views. We want people coming to our profile but what we really want is for people who can affect our career to review or view our LinkedIn profile. Whether you are looking for a job or looking for leads to new clients, one of the […]
6 Key Attributes to Your LinkedIn Profile Header [Updated]
LinkedIn Profile Header The first thing you see on your LinkedIn profile is the LinkedIn Profile Header section. There are 6 areas that I want to address in this article. Note: This is an update of a 2013 post called 5 Key Attributes to Your LinkedIn Profile Summary Photograph Having a high-quality image of yourself […]
How Many LinkedIn Connections are Enough Connections?
Enough LinkedIn Connections? How many LinkedIn connections do you need to make the magic happen? The answer is … it depends. It depends on how many people are in your niche. If you are in a highly specialized niche then less may be better. It depends on the size of the networks of your 1st-degree […]
Free Version of LinkedIn is Dead. May It Rest in Peace.
Free LinkedIn is Dead I am declaring that the free version of LinkedIn is dead, may it rest in peace. I contributed the following quote to the Career Sherpa’s post 31 EXPERTS SHARE PREDICTIONS FOR JOB SEARCH IN 2017: The assimilation of LinkedIn into Microsoft will mean an acceleration of new features along with higher fees. I […]