5 Simple Steps for Improving Your LinkedIn Visibility
Are you wondering how to get the most from LinkedIn? Over the last few months, the LinkedIn network has made upgrades and undergone changes.
If you already have a profile created on LinkedIn, it’s a great time to revisit and refresh your presence!
Or if you’re just wondering how to get started, these 5 simple steps will help you make the most of your time and effort!
Why LinkedIn?
LinkedIn is the largest professional social network online today, with over 100 million professional users. The average household income of LinkedIn users is over $88,000 per year, which outpaces the average income for the readership of the Wall Street Journal, Forbes and Business Week! 
How to Build a Thriving LinkedIn Group
Have you considered starting your own LinkedIn Group? These groups are excellent for networking, prospecting and establishing thought leadership.
You can start your own LinkedIn Group based on any of the following categories of professionals: prospects, peers, alumni, geographical, existing organizations, interest and more. You are limited only by your creativity!
In my experience, professional people are busy and if they’re going to participate in LinkedIn Groups, they really only have enough quality time for 1 to 3 groups weekly.
What follows are best practices for becoming a top group for your target market and specialty category.
Facebook and Skype Link: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What’s New This Week?
Facebook Launches Video Calling Feature: Facebook and Skype have teamed up to provide video calling capabilities fully embedded inside the Facebook platform. Click here for a tutorial. Also, Facebook also announced they now have 750 million active users.
How LinkedIn Is Helping Businesses Grow
In this video I interview Lewis Howes, author of Linked Working. Lewis is a popular speaker and an expert on LinkedIn.
Lewis shares how you can use LinkedIn for much more than just job search and how he is using LinkedIn to grow his business. And he gives you tips to integrate LinkedIn marketing tactics to help you grow your business.
Be sure to check out the takeaways below after you watch the video.
11 Ways to Find New Content for Your Social Strategy
Is your business running out of content ideas?
Content is the fuel for your social media rocket ship and the foundation of any solid presence in the social sphere. Your content cannot be everything to everyone; however, you can be relevant and provide value to your target market.
Generating compelling content that people want to consume can increase your website traffic and help you attract and retain a dedicated following. In order to produce quality content, you’re going to need a good source of raw material to continually draw upon.
Here are 11 proven tactics to help you never run out of content:
26 Tips to Enhance Your Experience on LinkedIn
With more than 85 million users and “a new member being added every second,” LinkedIn is often regarded as the premier social networking site for business professionals. Companies also see LinkedIn as a valuable place to promote their products and services.
Let’s explore LinkedIn together and see if you can identify new ways to enhance your user experience by considering the topics discussed below. As I’ve done in the companion pieces to this post, 26 Twitter Tips and 26 Facebook Tips, I’ll introduce LinkedIn Tips from A-Z.
5 Ways to Use LinkedIn Groups to Build Influential Connections
If you want to build truly influential relationships online, you have to find places where you can consistently add value, spend quality time and have engaging conversations with members of your target demographic.
LinkedIn Groups offers one of the best ways to make the most of your social media engagement time, but you must adopt the right strategy to be successful. This article will show you how.
LinkedIn allows you to join up to 50 groups, but you can’t possibly be effective and spend enough time to make a difference in 50 groups.
What works best is to focus your time and effort on a deep and narrow approach in order to build influence within LinkedIn Groups, enhance your credibility and generate new connections.
How to Prospect Using Combined Power of LinkedIn and Twitter
Let’s assume you know whom you want to work with, but you just don’t move in their circles. How can you make yourself known without cold-calling (or risking rejection)?
Simple. Try networking and nurturing a relationship with social media. This article will help you prospect using the power of LinkedIn and Twitter (together).
#1: Get Your House in Order First
First, you need to do some housekeeping before you put yourself forward, and by that I mean clean up your LinkedIn profile. Take a good hard look at it and ask yourself the following:
Social Media Funnies: Bikers Get LinkedIn
Hal and Joe stopped for a friendly exchange at a red light…
Are you on LinkedIn? Do you feel like you’re not “part of the gang?” or that LinkedIn is not for you? Be sure to share your comments below…
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Top 5 Ways to Market Your Business With LinkedIn
LinkedIn is the most powerful social networking site to help you grow your business. It makes Twitter, Facebook and YouTube seem like social networking sites for kids.
If you want to hang with the big players—a place where connections are made, leads are generated, and deals go down—then you need to spend more of your time on LinkedIn.
Although other sites have their purpose in the business world and many people utilize multiple social networking sites, LinkedIn is still the number-one place to market your business. Here are ways to use LinkedIn and get results:
