The Unhappy Employee’s Guide To LinkedIn

Use Your LInkedIn Profile Well

You have a job. As far as you’re aware, you’re not in danger of being made redundant.  Maybe you even have a career, or a career path, in front of you.  Whatever your situation, you’re absolutely sure about one thing. You’re an unhappy employee.

At times like this, when there are lots of people unemployed and looking for a job, and thousands of people who are under-employed, you probably feel a bit guilty about the way you view your job. After all, many people would love to have your job and the job security you enjoy.

However, that doesn’t make any difference to you. If you’re an unhappy employee, you’re an unhappy employee. That’s how you feel, so be honest with yourself. However, there are things you can do to lessen that sense of unhappiness,  so take action, too. [Read more...]

5 Reasons To Pay More Attention to Your LinkedIn Profile

Your LInkedIn ProfileIt’s easy to create a LinkedIn profile and leave it.

The job’s done.

You can forget about LinkedIn can’t you? That’s what most professional people do, isn’t it?

The next time you’ll pay attention to your LinkedIn profile is when you change your job or when something significant happens that means you need to look at it again. [Read more...]

5 Ways To Get Your LinkedIn Company Page Noticed By More Of The Right People

Your LinkedIn company page is a valuable business asset, or at least it should be.  Using your LinkedIn company page you can promote your products and services, build a following of clients and prospects, recruit talented staff and share interesting, relevant and useful updates with your followers.

You can use your LinkedIn company page to build your brand, your reputation and your success.  However, since there are more than 2 million LinkedIn company pages, you will need to take steps to get your page noticed by the right people…………. So what do you need to do? [Read more...]

5 Changes To Your LinkedIn Profile You May Not Have Noticed

The way your LinkedIn profile looks has changed over recent weeks.  If you haven’t seen those changes yet, they will be coming soon. Every one’s profile is being revamped.

What changes have been made and what are the implications for your LinkedIn profile?  The following LinkedIn profile tips will help you to make sure you’re not left behind. [Read more...]

What your LinkedIn connections are trying to tell you, if only you were paying attention!

LinkedIn EtiquetteHow are your LinkedIn® manners?

Are you well behaved online, especially on LinkedIn®?

How would you know? How do people tell you when you’re behaving well or badly?

Are you paying attention to the responses that are coming back to you about your behaviour?

The good news is there are plenty of ways of finding out what your connections on LinkedIn® are telling you. You just need to pay attention. [Read more...]

Are you embarrassed by your online biographies?

Garbage

Does your online biography belong here?

Most people can introduce themselves passably at networking events.  They can produce CVs that give their career histories, and write “About” pages that reveal something about their mission, ethos and values.

But online biographies?

Well, they’re often forgotten. They languish online filled with out-of-date information. [Read more...]

LinkedIn Technical Tips For The Not-Very-Technical!

A little while ago I wrote about Follow buttons and how to get people to follow your company.  The post was well received and it has been shared quite a few times.

Today I’m drawing together some more information about how to encourage people to follow you and your company.

First, have you seen this?LInkedIn Profile   It’s called a member box.

It’s a useful encouragement to people to click through to LinkedIn® to take a look at your profile.

If you click on the image, you’ll be taken to my profile. [Read more...]

Who’s Looking At Your LinkedIn Profile And Why It Matters

LinkedIn® is very good at supplying us with useful information.

  • How many times has your profile been viewed in the last few days?
  • How many times have you come up in searches in the last week?

Do you know?

Do you care?

You should.

These statistics indicate how well your profile is working.  [Read more...]

Get people to follow your company on LinkedIn

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Follow us on LinkedIn

Quite a few people have been asking about Follow buttons.

Most of us have worked out how to put a “View my LinkedIn Profile” button somewhere on our websites.

What about your company?

As a senior person in your organisation, you want people to follow your company.

So what do you do?

How do you get your LinkedIn button to encourage more people to follow your company?

[Read more...]

Marketing Using LinkedIn – 5 Tips For Absolute Beginners

Marketing with LinkedIn

Want to use LinkedIn to acquire more of these?

LinkedIn® is the world’s largest social network for professional people.

It’s growing day by day and week by week.

How can you make the most of the marketing opportunities LinkedIn® presents?

Here are five tips to help you get started.  [Read more...]

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