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LinkedIn Tip: How to Add Your Blog in Your LinkedIn Profile
You probably heard about the leverage factor of blogs when combining them with LinkedIn, right? Still, a lot of people are asking us: How do I add a blog to my LinkedIn Profile? There are two Applications you can use: the WordPress application and the Bloglink application. WordPress Application (use this one if you have a [...]
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Fundamental Principle of Networking: Know, Like and Trust factor
Networking and referral expert Bob Burg is famous for his quote (from the excellent book “Endless Referrals”): “All things being equal, people do business with, and refer business to people they know, like and trust.” So in order to build relationships it is important to raise your Know factor, your Like factor and your Trust [...]
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Multiple Languages: How Does LinkedIn Behave?
Last week we already reported that LinkedIn’s user interface now also is available in Dutch and Czech. That raised the question for many Dutch speaking people how this would affect them and the people interacting with them. How does this work? Situation 1: the person you are looking for has a Profile in one language. [...]
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LinkedIn available in Dutch and Czech!
From today on LinkedIn is available in Dutch and Czech! For people living in Belgium, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic this could actually be the tipping point for how to REALLY use LinkedIn. How do you change the language on LinkedIn? And are there any other consequences? We have been waiting for it, but [...]
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Interview Z Boek – Kanaal Z – How to REALLY use LinkedIn
Two weeks ago the interview about “How to REALLY use LinkedIn” in the television show “Z Boek” was broadcasted on the Belgian television station Kanaal Z. Watch the 4:13 minute interview of Jan Vermeiren and Bert Verdonck by host Ianka Fleerackers (in Dutch).
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How LinkedIn Answers Help You Raise Your Credibility and Visibility
We already explained in a former post that the value of the LinkedIn Groups functionality is in the interactions between people. Before the Discussions function was introduced, there was already another tool that stimulated interaction: the Answers. Actually the concept is pretty simple. Some people ask questions and others answer them. Again this allows you [...]
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Networking in the Netherlands
Like we wrote in “How to REALLY use LinkedIn“: the power of networking resides in the combination of online AND offline networking. LinkedIn is a great tool to help you prepare to feel more comfortable and be more successful at offline networking events (read Chapter 11). If you want to find a networking opportunity in [...]
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Your Professional Headline on LinkedIn Becomes Even More Important
In the book “How to REALLY use LinkedIn” we already dedicated a whole chapter about having an attractive personal LinkedIn Profile. One of the most overlooked parts is the Professional Headline (the sentence below your name and picture). It is kind of a teaser to invite people to read the rest of your Profile. Since [...]
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15 Benefits of LinkedIn for Sales People and Business Owners
Not everybody knows how LinkedIn can benefit them. That’s why we will be sharing some insights on this blog for different “profiles”. Let’s focus in this article on the benefits for people who are looking for new customers. For business owners, account managers, business development managers and anyone else who is in sales, these are [...]
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LinkedIn Myth: Not Everybody Has a Profile so It Doesn’t Work For Me
A comment we hear often hear in our presentations and workshops is: “Not every person or every function is on LinkedIn. I can’t always find the right person. LinkedIn doesn’t work for me.” It is right that not everybody is a member of LinkedIn. But the network is growing VERY fast. There are two new [...]
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How LinkedIn Can Be Beneficial INSIDE Organisations
Although many people who only have an internal function don’t think networking in general and LinkedIn specifically is useful to them, LinkedIn can also bring many benefits to them. The most important one is that although many larger organizations have their own telephone and email directories, the information is very basic and limited to practical [...]
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Why Become A Member of LinkedIn Groups?
People are used to coming together in clubs and associations in real life. Sharing ideas is also one of the first things the Internet was used for. So we encourage you to become a member of one or more Groups or start one yourself. Once you are member these are the benefits of belonging to [...]
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The Single Most Important Benefit Of LinkedIn
For us the most powerful concept behind LinkedIn is that it finds the right people AND the connections you have with them. It makes the networks of the people we know visible. LinkedIn shows us our second and third degree networks and the paths towards them. This has tremendous value. Why? Many people already have [...]
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My Personal Policy Regarding Accepting LinkedIn Invitations
Before I share with you my personal policy regarding accepting LinkedIn Invitations, let me give you a little background of my situation (which may be totally different than yours). As a professional speaker I give a lot of presentations to large audiences about networking, referrals and LinkedIn. I meet approximately 1500 people a year face-to-face [...]
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LinkedIn and other Social Media invite Organizations to Think about Human Relationships
Many companies are realizing: LinkedIn and other social media are here to stay, but how can they benefit us as an organization (versus as individuals)? The answer is: by tapping into the power of the second degree! In this case the first degree is the management team of an organization (or other central departments like marketing or recruiting). The second [...]
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Forrester Research Study Confirms The “Power Of The Magic Mail”
In our presentations, training courses and in our international bestseller “How to REALLY use LinkedIn” we talk a lot about the power of what we call “The Magic Mail“. In that email you are introduced by a common contact to the person you want to get in touch with. We already knew from experience that [...]
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LinkedIn Tip: How to Add Your Blog in Your LinkedIn Profile
You probably heard about the leverage factor of blogs when combining them with LinkedIn, right? Still, a lot of people are asking us: How do I add a blog to my LinkedIn Profile? There are two Applications you can use: the WordPress application and the Bloglink application. WordPress Application (use this one if you have a [...]
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