Everybody does what they think is right, no one intentionally damages their online brand or limits their chances of success do they? What does your profile say about you? Do you understand the reach and potential of LinkedIn? Here's a one minute overview

1. One minute
overview
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2. Do you get your work from Referrals?
Introductions?
Recommendations?
Trust ?
Then LinkedIn is for you!
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3. LinkedIn facts
Concept started by Reid Hoffman in 2002 and going since
2003
First month got 4,500 sign ups
Gets over 1,000,000 new users per week, more than 2 per
second!
Over 250+ Million People
Over 3.2+ Million company pages
Operates in over 200 countries
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4. LinkedIn facts for UK
2+ Million users in Director role and higher
Over 105,000 UK users at CEO level
14+ Million UK users
UK is fourth largest user base for LinkedIn behind US, India
and Brazil
Just under 9,000 new users per day sign up in the UK
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5. Just how good is your profile?
Dare you to take our free test for a score out of 10
http://thelinkedinman.com/how-linkedin-are-you/
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6. Over 60% look you up before they meet you.
What does your LinkedIn profile say about you?
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7. Have you searched for someone?
Someone you know? A potential client? A sponsor?
What did you think of their profile?
What will your clients think of yours?
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8. Why did I get into LinkedIn?
 For free LinkedIn can give you …
 easy to reach referrals sent on an email each week x 3
 thousands of advertising impressions to target audience
 live database of referral potential for any reasons
 Relationships are the key to success
 Clients are terrible people, they forget what you do
 Unlock the relationships of clients, the best referral in the world
 More coffee less miles, qualify your meetings before you go
 Anyone like cold calling? I don’t and I don’t have to with LinkedIn
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9. What’s my LinkedIn done?
 On average 25 people look at my profile each day
 Had my profile looked at over 1,800 times in the last 12
weeks
 Had over 35,000 advertising impressions for free this month
 Had over 14 inbound enquiries
 Arranged over 12 new relationship ‘coffees’
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got me published in three books
got me two new job roles
Over 550 recommendations, but I don’t ask
Over £10 million of sales in corporate life
Speaking and teaching in 54 countries in 2012
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10. What my clients say about LinkedIn after training?
Good 10-15% of annual turnover this coming year
3 Large orders since February
10 fold increase in visibility in days
I sold over £125,000 since the course from using LinkedIn
40% of monthly income
Generated a huge amount of revenue and kudos for our business
Over £22m of new sales from the team in 12 months!
More than 60% of my leads and work comes from LinkedIn
The ROI on this is 40:1!
Referred to clients on our doorstep we never knew were there
26% of my fee income was derived from LinkedIn
Increased traffic by over 400% daily
You can read all those and more on my profile on LinkedIn
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11. Why I can help you get success from LinkedIn
 I have used it in real life for real outcomes, haven’t read a book, could
probably write a few!
 Worked with leading organisations globally, nationally and locally to help
them get measurable success on LinkedIn
 We live in a connected world, make it work for you, it’s easy
 I have the unusual skills combination of qualified sales
professional, consultant, analyst, manager and accountant but I work
with people!
 Don’t just take my word for it, read the client recommendations on my
personal and company profiles on LinkedIn
 I am NOT a ‘social media’ person, we only help with LinkedIn
The business exclusively helps businesses and individuals maximise the
opportunities for them within LinkedIn through courses, consultancy, 121
support, and creating profiles to be proud of for individuals and businesses.
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12. Companies I work with …
“I was amazed with the potential of using the website as a business generation tool. James’
friendly and professional approach was the key reason that I recommended him to my
colleagues. I have no hesitation in recommending James to others... except maybe that right now
I believe James’ consultancy has given me competitive advantage” Chief of Staff, Microsoft UK
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13. Thank you for looking
If I can ever help you get referrals, engagement, influence, intelligence and
success from LinkedIn just get in touch
James@thelinkedinman.com
www.thelinkedinman.com
+447802 392925
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/thelinkedinman
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