Number of users in Facebook is increasing day by day,
Is your LinkedIn account mostly sitting idle? You can do so much more with it.. Here are some tips I found that can be very useful for "not so active" LinkedIn users.
And for those, who are yet to have one LinkedIn account its high time to have one.
1. Fill out your profile completely, make it 100% (off-course its your profile it should be 100%)this gives more credibility and earns trust.
2. Customize your Linkedin URL to your name(helps in Google search)
3. On all your marketing collateral publish your LinkedIn URL (e mail signature, business card, website etc.)
4. Build network by joining industry specific and alumni groups (join groups that have more members) related to your business.
5. Answer questions in Question & Answers, this is not self promotion, its your expertise!
6. Integrate blog entries and twitter stream into your profile (use LinkedIn application)
7. Mention your recent activities by updating your status
8. Link your status updates with your other social media accounts. (you have an option to share the same with your twitter followers through LinkedIn)
9. Search feature in LinkedIn is simply amazing try the search feature to find people by company, industry, and geographical area.
10. Start a group and manage it focusing on your services, product and your business.
11. Before meeting or contacting prospects do a research about them.
12. Share useful articles and resources that will be useful for connections and group members
13. Write honest and valuable and recommendations for your contacts and don't ever exchange recommendations (one can view people you have recommended and recommendation that you got)
14. Post your business presentation in your profile using Google presentation or slide share application from LinkedIn.
15. Ask your first level contacts for introduction to their first level contacts.
16. Interact with Linkedin on a regular basis to reach those who may not see you on other social media sites.
17. Activate the set up to receive Linkedin messages in your in-box so you can respond right away.
Phew.. exhausted will tell more in my next blog..
