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Company Branding Tip for LinkedIn: The Use of Websites in Your LinkedIn Profile
To achieve better branding and visibility results on LinkedIn from a company’s point of view, this is a tip using the “Websites” part in the LinkedIn Profile of all employees of the same company or organization. As we already mentioned in “How to REALLY use LinkedIn“: don’t use “My company” or “My website”, but “Other” [...]
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How to Find the Right Customers, Employers, Suppliers and Partners using Company Size on LinkedIn
Many LinkedIn users wonder how to find potential customers, employers, suppliers and partners using company size. Since this is not a field in the “Advanced Search” screen it seems like you can’t do this. Good news! There is a work around. This is how you find the companies and the people who can get you [...]
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How You Can Use LinkedIn Polls
LinkedIn Polls is one of those features in LinkedIn that is not used that often. Probably because most people don’t know how they can use them. Polls can benefit you in several ways: 1. Get useful input from your own connections for yourself. 2. Get useful input from your own connections to use in an [...]
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LinkedIn Myth: Why Should I Use LinkedIn When I Have Google?
Time for busting another LinkedIn myth: why should I use LinkedIn when I have Google (or other search engines)? The answer to this one is very short: Google is an excellent resource to find information. So use it when you look for information. LinkedIn is a collection of people and the relationships between them. Use [...]
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LinkedIn Myth: I’m Happy With My Current Situation So I Don’t Need To Build A Network on LinkedIn
Time for busting another LinkedIn (or networking in general) myth: “I am happy with my current professional situation, I don’t need to build a network on LinkedIn (or elsewhere).” Let us start by answering you don’t have to do anything. All the tips in “How to REALLY use LinkedIn” are suggestions and tips that are [...]
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LinkedIn Question: What Will Happen When I Remove A Connection On LinkedIn?
A question that is asked in our presentations and training courses a lot is: “What will happen when I remove a connection on LinkedIn? Will he be notified? And how to do that: removing a connection?” There are occasions you want to remove some of your contacts. The reasons might be that something happened between [...]
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15 Ways How LinkedIn Can Help Recruiters
If you are a recruiter or are responsible for hiring new employees, these are the benefits LinkedIn can bring you: 1. Identifying the right candidates (finding their profile) 2. Receiving introductions or referrals to potential employees (via the introductions tool or via a Magic Mail) 3. Discovering the relationships between potential employees and other contacts [...]
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LinkedIn Myth: No One Has Contacted Me Yet So LinkedIn Is A Useless Tool
Time for busting another LinkedIn myth: “No one has contacted me yet. So LinkedIn is a useless business tool.” On the contrary! LinkedIn is a super tool, which helps you to find the people who are in the best position to help you reach your goals, whatever they may be. However, many people think that [...]
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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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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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