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Written by <a href="http://www.northfultonbg.com/index.php?option=com_authorpages&task=showauthorcontent&id=62&Itemid=3"><a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=62"><span class="small">Sean Nelson</span></a></a>
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Wednesday, 18 February 2009 03:46 |
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 If you’re a small business or a sales person you’re not selling a product or service, you’re selling yourself. For many, the thought of self-promotion just isn’t one that they are comfortable with. LinkedIn can help you with your discomfort.
Recommendations can serve as an effective alternative to selling yourself. They are an opportunity to let others toot your horn. On LinkedIn there are four types of recommendations: - Colleague: Worked at the same company
- Service Provider: Hired the person
- Business Partner: Worked together but not as a client or colleague
- Student: Fellow student or teacher
Let me start by saying any recommendation is better than no recommendation. That being said, the recommendation that really stands out is one from a client. I’ll talk more about this in a second. |
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Written by <a href="http://www.northfultonbg.com/index.php?option=com_authorpages&task=showauthorcontent&id=62&Itemid=3"><a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=62"><span class="small">Sean Nelson</span></a></a>
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Monday, 02 February 2009 21:51 |
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LinkedIn, if you think about it, is simply an offline idea implemented in an online manner. It takes advantage of the ease of communicating and interacting that the internet provides. LinkedIn hasn’t changed or replaced the old way of networking. It’s just added a new dynamic to the mix. It’s made it easier to network with more people in less time. It’s expanded the typical network geographic restrictions. And it’s opened up new opportunities to showcase your business or yourself. In the end there is only one you or one business. There’s just a new opportunity to build your brand. In my chamber I’ve attended over 90% of the alliance meeting over the past three years. Each meeting I have 60 seconds to get my message across. In addition I try to meet face to face with as many people as possible. |
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Written by <a href="http://www.northfultonbg.com/index.php?option=com_authorpages&task=showauthorcontent&id=62&Itemid=3"><a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=62"><span class="small">Sean Nelson</span></a></a>
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Tuesday, 20 January 2009 14:56 |
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Lately there have been some rumors about discontent at LinkedIn. Problems with meeting financial goals set by their investors, rumors of managers throwing each other under the bus, lack of how to make LinkedIn profitable, and a host of other concerns. Could a site with 30+ million users just disappear in the blink of an eye? If LinkedIn were gone tomorrow, how would that impact you today? In the future? I would guess that for a majority of the users it would seem devastating at first, but slowly they would come to relize that while LinkedIn was "cool" and showed "promise", they never really figured out how to use it. It would be business as usual in the world of face-to-face networking. |
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Written by <a href="http://www.northfultonbg.com/index.php?option=com_authorpages&task=showauthorcontent&id=62&Itemid=3"><a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=62"><span class="small">Sean Nelson</span></a></a>
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Monday, 19 January 2009 23:27 |
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LinkedIn is a great opportunity to present yourself. You can list a summary, details of past work history, your current employment, and other pieces of information. All of this can present a picture of you, but by itself doesn’t convey credibility. LinkedIn has built in features that help you establish credibility. All you need to do is a little extra work and credibility is yours to be gained. Lets take a look at your credibility opportunities: |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 January 2009 15:00 |
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Written by <a href="http://www.northfultonbg.com/index.php?option=com_authorpages&task=showauthorcontent&id=62&Itemid=3"><a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=62"><span class="small">Sean Nelson</span></a></a>
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Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:23 |
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In the previous article I talked about potential ways that you could use LinkedIn. In Part 2 I’m going to focus on a specific use today: Using LinkedIn to enhance your networking. The core of LinkedIn revolves around connecting to other business professionals, which is networking. Networking exclusively on LinkedIn, though, ignores the human element of face to face interaction. Understanding, once again that LinkedIn is a tool, how do you use it to enhance your other networking? I do a lot of networking in my local chamber. When I first joined the chamber I hadn’t really gotten active on LinkedIn. At meetings I would try to meet as many people as possible, but in a room full of 50 people and only 30 minutes of open networking it was hard to meet everyone. |
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Last Updated on Monday, 19 January 2009 17:17 |
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