I was ecstatic when I found the option to tag my LinkedIn connections. This feature wasn’t available until after I had over 300 connections and I didn’t take advantage of the feature until I had over 500 connections. If you start early in your connecting career, you will have a robust search pattern available to…
Your LinkedIn Photo
Your LinkedIn photo is one of the first things that seasoned LinkedIn users look for when they search your profile. To see if that is you when they invite you to connect To recognize you when meeting face-to-face for the first time To check out how serious you are about yourself (I am not sure…
LinkedIn – Top 5 Tips – Participate
This is the last in the series of my Top 5 LinkedIn Tips. Now that your profile is up to snuff, you need to Participate to keep your name in front of your connections. Participate – There are so many ways to participate in LinkedIn. Three of the most obvious are: Updates Groups Answers Updates – When you…
LinkedIn – Top 5 Tips – Invitations
Next in the series of my Top 5 LinkedIn tips is Invitations Since you have been networking, you have collected a ton of business cards, right? What do you do with all the business cards that you collect? You could do several things with them – toss them into a basket, bag, drawer or box enter…
LinkedIn – Top 5 Tips – Connections
Number 3 in the series of Top 5 LinkedIn Tips dealing with your personal profile is Connections Connections – to be effective in LinkedIn you need a minimum of 150 connections 1st degree connections. Briefly – if you are directly connected, they are 1st degree connections, those peoples connections are your 2nd degree connections (if…
