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If you don’t enjoy writing, you might be bummed to discover the importance of words to your LinkedIn profile. Just when you feel like you’ve reached your writing limit, you’ll discover another section to add (there are more than two dozen) or a description that could use a little more wordsmithing.
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If you’ve ever watched a street performer in a big city, you’ve probably experienced a strange phenomenon. What begins as a small audience of passersby grows almost instantly into a massive crowd. It’s funny how that happens. People hate to miss out. When they see others gathering, they tend to
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One thing that always puzzles me is when people lock down their LinkedIn profiles, making them hard or even impossible to find. Isn’t the point of being on LinkedIn to build relationships? That’s pretty difficult to do if no one can reach you.Â
Now, what I do understand is that some folks accidenta...
Raise your hand if you’ve ever hit a wall in your sales or recruiting process! We’ve all been there. Anyone who works in a sales or recruiting role will tell you, no technique or process yields a “yes” 100 percent of the time. If there were a perfect process, everyone would do it.Â
Whether you’
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Having a website has become a prerequisite to starting a business. If your business doesn’t exist online, well, it may as well not exist. That’s because being found is critical to gaining traction. Whether you like it or not, your prospects are vetting you online, sometimes before they even begin a ...
As with most things, developing a lead generation process on LinkedIn takes practice and a healthy dose of patience. Keep showing up, keep being resourceful, and I promise, it will pay off. If you don’t believe me, let me tell you a story that may just change your mind.
My client, Bill, had a goal ...
Like other social platforms, LinkedIn has a process to let users verify their identities. It’s the LinkedIn equivalent of the blue checkmark…kind of. I’ll get into the details below. Armed with all the right info, you can make an informed decision about whether or not verification makes sense for yo...
Some people just know how to make a strong first impression. More than 15 years ago, I attended a local networking event for business owners. At the start of the evening, we all stood up and gave a short explanation of who we were and what we did.Â
As the speaking portion of the evening was win
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Imagine if the next time someone asked you how work was, you said, “Full of joy!” I think we’d all appreciate a little more joy in our lives, perhaps especially in our work lives. Â
I’ve heard it said that happiness is a temporary feeling but joy is an enduring posture, and I believe that to be tru...
While the U.S. job market is still adding jobs, it's trending at a slower pace. And yet, many people are still looking for new or better jobs. Maybe you’re one of them! If so, you know job searching in an uncertain market is no easy task, particularly when the job search timeline is becoming longer....
Since in-person events are back and here to stay (barring another global pandemic…which hopefully doesn’t happen in my lifetime!), I've got some things to share with you. Before you straighten your tie or touch up your lipstick and head out the door to your next conference or networking session, don...
If you’ve been on LinkedIn for a while, you may remember the days when job changes, work anniversaries, and birthdays would show up right in your main feed and notifications tab. But as LinkedIn has evolved, those updates have found a new home—one that you might have overlooked.
Enter LinkedIn’s “C...
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