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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 [...]

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 [...]

Jeanette Mulvey, BusinessNewsDaily Managing Editor wrote an article on June 27, 2011 entitled: “Mind Your Business: What Your Boss Doesn’t Know (Yet)” slanted toward baby boomer bosses. To those of us who called the Yellow Pages social media when we first started in management, she calls out. And here is her plea: “Social media and [...]

When will the self employed small business owners I target wake up!  You can brand yourself and promote your business using FREE social media.  All it takes is a little knowledge I can provide and a time commitment on your behalf. C’mon folks…  have you seen where are the big bucks going to or what?  [...]

Can you help me get even one person back on the road to dignity and respect?  Together we can get some unemployed active job seekers off the trail of depression, gloom and self doubt we have all felt from time to time as an unemployed, insecure non-contributor.  I personally know how that felt.  I also [...]

Michele just emailed me and asked: “Tell me more about the Business Blogging class you are teaching next week at the Buffalo Grove Park District.” Anyone who knows me Michele knows I tout WordPress for do it yourself self employed small business people.  In fact this page your are reading is a WordPress format.  Like [...]

On his daughter’s wedding day, Don Vito Corleone is visited by Bonasera, a funeral director.  Bonasera requests justice be applied to the men who ruined his daughter.  She was been beaten by two guys when they forced themselves upon her and she resisted. His beautiful daughter was instantly transformed, physically and emotionally. Her nose was [...]