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This great video from Business Development University gives you a great BIG clue on what to do with that list of connections you have so diligently gathered on LinkedIn because you listened to me in the first place and grew that base. Let’s assume you did not join LinkedIn to make new friends, but to [...]

Too many LinkedIn profiles do not have links to the profile owner’s Web sites or blogs or merely use  the “generic” default descriptors: “Company Website” or “Blog“.   Well LinkedIn is a phenomenal source of links back to your site, which are good for Google search engine results.  Yes, they may be nofollow links, but [...]

My boy Gary Vaynerchuk talks about Amazon going into the direct publishing business. This fall they will market 122 books directly to consumers with no middle man involvement. According to Gary this is the first volley of a war to eliminate the middle man in this industry. A similar move was made in the music [...]

I saw this question in my title on a Meetup discussion board earlier and replied:  “No, employers should not secretly monitor Facebook activity. They should overtly monitor and encourage it. Welcome to Gary Vaynerchuk’s ‘The Thank You Economy’.” I also started two five discussion threads on LinkedIn and encouraged viewers to comment there or here [...]

I am an avid fan of LinkedIn and have used it to take my social business (thank you IBM) networking to new levels. In the past several months I have evolved from being a hunter to being hunted. Two fundamental steps preclude moving to that vaulted level, thereafter you must adhere to some protocols. The [...]

I posted this video on my LinkedIn Additional Resources page as well. I wanted to get it up when I found it and distribute to my email list of job seekers quickly. I reviewed it again after that and summarize it below, adding my comments. Brian Henshey interviewed Bob McIntosh, a LinkedIn expert from Career [...]

I am doing several local presentations in September on LinkedIn for business people and job seekers. Most are free of charge but there is either a slight membership fee ($100 annual) or a per presentation fee for the two ‘career’ centers below. I also present my monthly scheduled two part job seeker’s class on using [...]

The latest LinkedIn Blog post arrived in my email early this morning. Aaron Bronzan officially announced the “Improve Your Profile” button (highlighted in yellow below). When clicked, it opens a suggestion tool. This tool has been available in Beta for a while if you have not noticed. The blue box (shown below in the second [...]

I came across this discussion in a LinkedIn group I belong to which was started by Dr. Joy Poskozim, a Chicago dentist. I was impressed since I have been on LinkedIn for a few years and think this is the first discussion I saw started by a dentist. I even congratulated her on her work, [...]

I saw this discussion in the Chicago Business Owners LiNC group, a  small sub group of Linked N Chicago (LiNC)  I belong to.  I stumbled upon it on LinkedIn earlier today and it aroused my curiosity.  The title was:  “How do you maintain confidence through the “dips” as an entrepreneur?”  followed by “All entrepreneurs ride [...]