With the Linkedin.com re-design, most business owners are taking a fresh look at LinkedIn to make sure they are presenting the best version of their brands, team and organisation on LinkedIn to maximise the most powerful professional networking platform and content marketing site. If LinkedIn is on your to do list, here is a version of the presentation I did recently at a business breakfast, sharing my insights on how to grow your small business with LinkedIn.
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How to Grow Your Small Business with LinkedIn
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2. ✔️ What are my goals for LinkedIn?
✔️ Is my LinkedIn Profile optimised?
✔️ What role can a Company Page play?
✔️ Do I have LinkedInitis?
✔️ What is my connection criteria?
✔️ Is the LinkedIn App on my phone?
✔️ What are my 3 core topics?
✔️ Is LinkedIn Publishing for me?
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8. 4 Key Thought Starters
1. Find Your Voice & Tell Your Story
2. Build your Brand
3. Grow Your Network
4. Capture Leads
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9. 1. Find Your Voice & Tell Your Story
Summary & Experience
Personal Branding
Professional & Consistent Imagery
Endorsements
Recommendations
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10. 2. Build Your Brand
What do you want to be
known for?
Who are you trying to
influence?
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11. 3. Grow Your Network
Have a Connection Criteria
Be Active
Choose 3 Topics to Like / Comment / Share
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Launched in 2003, LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network.
400M + members (LinkedIn Profiles)
4M + company pages globally
Microsoft bought your profile for nearly $250!
linkedin.com redesign since November
Australian Members:
4 out of 5 Australian professionals are on LinkedIn
They are 30 y.o. +, more educated and skew slightly to males
Average time spent on platform has increased from 8.5 to 11 minutes a day
The first question I’d like you to consider is
What do you want to be known for?
In my case, at a very simple level, I am known as the LinkedIn lady. While this is just one of my focus areas, it has helped me establish a niche within my industry and be invited to share my insight at events such as this.
Whenever I spend any time on LinkedIn, I am crystal clear about the 3 areas I want to be known for and so have written my profile with this in mind, and engage with the LinkedIn community with a clear focus on these topics.
For me it is LinkedIn training, social strategy and career planning.
I recommend you give some thought to what this is for you.
The next consideration is who are you trying to influence when you are on LinkedIn?
For me, it is about my referrers and those people who do not know me, but have heard someone mention my name and may be looking at my profile to find out more about me.
For you, I recommend you give some thought to your current priorities, stakeholders, projects and goals and consider what you want them to know about you when they have heard your name.
LinkedIn is your opportunity to very powerfully control the information people can find out about you online.
Assumptions
Write it for people who don't know you
View LinkedIn like a room
It’s not social media
Think networking (profile) and content marketing (page and publishing).
Let’s take some time to think about this.
Who do you know.
Focus on 3 topics