Today I want to ask you a simple question?
Are you missing out on utilizing LinkedIn’s capabilities for your business?
These additional questions will tell us more:
- Do you generate leads or opportunities from LinkedIn for your business?
- Have you generated any joint ventures from LinkedIn?
- Have you secured a job or employment from using LinkedIn?
- Have you received advice to your tough business questions on Linkedin?
- Have you secured top talent for your company using Linkedin?
- Have you gained appointments through LinkedIn?
If you did not answer yes to at least one of these questions you may be missing out on LinkedIn’s offering.
I will not be able to cover all of LinkedIn’s offering in this article, but I will share a snapshot to each question I asked.
- Generating leads and opportunities can be done through various avenues on Linkedin. One way is through asking qualifying question through your status updates with links to your site or blog.
- Joint Ventures can be created through participating in groups with people of similar interest and taking the discussion past the group with a personal message or phone call.
- Securing employment can be achieved through your connections- connections via introductions, participating on groups, or status updates to name a few.
- Expert advice is no longer a major task to secure. Using Linkedin’s Questions application you can get highly educated answers from the worlds experts in over 270 industries.
- Top talent is no longer so tough to find with LinkedIn. You can view profiles, comb resumes, and reach out to thousands of candidates.
- Securing appointments is truly an amazing way to use Linkedin whether you use the status updates, introduction forwards, or meeting prospects in group’s. After an initial dialogue the logical next step can be asking for a face to face.
These are just some of the ways to benefit from Linkedin’s offering. Feel free to contact me directly to ask questions or join us for this LinkedIn Power Users Webinar this Thursday at 4pm EST w/ Live Q&A following. Don’t worry if you can’t make it, go ahead and register for the playback. Get your spot here
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Today Linkedin has 50+ million business professionals engaging each other daily for both B2C and B2B interaction. The ultimate goal usually is to generate leads for our respective businesses. While some of the other reasons maybe to seek out expert advice, joint ventures, and new opportunities. One thing that continues to amaze me is how much time many professionals spend on Linkedin and never outline a specific plan to generate leads.
