This is another one best practice to do on a regular basis. I had the misfortune of losing my original LinkedIn account and I lost over 180 recommendations. I had backed up my contacts and my summary but not my recommendations. The reason I hadn’t done that is because I wasn’t aware that you could do that. So one silver lining in my losing my original LinkedIn account is that I learned that you CAN back up your recommendations and I can now share that with you
Please watch this short video on how to back up your profile and your recommendations.
I received the following question today:
There is a group on LinkedIn that I would like to “take over” It is an Alumni group in San Diego. I am the current President and we want to use to promote alumni events. The person who set it up has not posted in over a year and they probably won’t care.
Is there a way I can find out who set it up or who is the admin and contact them?
Can they add me as an admin like you can on FB?
Or, can they just give me ownership of the group so I can post, grow it, etc?
The answer to all three questions is YES, YES & YES.
This video shows you how to do it.
One reason why LinkedIn is a place where many executives have a presence is because it is relatively more difficult for spammers to send their pitches. This is because you’re limited to sending messages to 50 people at one time. So if you have a large number of contacts, sending a message to all of them is very time intensive.
While the 50 people limitation is great for reducing spam, it is also a major hindrance when you have legitimate messages that you would like to send to your contacts. One way to make it easier for you to send RELEVANT messages to large numbers of contacts is to tag them and create groups of 50 people each.
For example, I currently have over 350 contacts in the San Diego area. I’m teaching a free LinkedIn seminar at a local venue later this month. Please watch the video below to see what a difference tagging makes.
I recently invited a large number of offline connections to connect with me on LinkedIn. Since I wanted to personalize the invitation, I chose to send the message from my contact manager as opposed to LinkedIn. Using this method allowed me to send multiple invitations at once and using the mail merge feature, personalize each one with the person’s name.
In order to make it easier for people to connect with me, I created a link that took them directly to my invite page – click here to see it in action.
In the video below I show you exactly how to create your own link so that you can direct people to invite you. If you find this video to be of help please pass it on and leave a comment below. Thank you.
Updating your status on LinkedIn can both help and hurt you on LinkedIn. Used properly, they can be a very powerful component of your LinkedIn strategy. On this post I’ll focus on how they can help you.
Your updates should be used to increase your and/or your network’s Visibility / Credibility. You can also use the updates to promote – as long as they are subtle! Remember that people on LinkedIn want primarily relevant information and connections. They don’t want to be sold!
I recently posted that I had booked a presentation while traveling abroad to the U.K. (I live in San Diego, CA.) My main purspose with this update was to increase my credibility as an International Speaker. However, I also got an unexpected bonus – see below:
I had recently connected with this person on LinkedIn and thanks to my post we started a conversation and we are now likely to meet face-to-face in a few weeks.
This is the magic of integrating online and offline networking
Sometimes you want to make changes to your LinkedIn profile and you don’t want these changes broadcasted to your network. There’s an easy solution for this. Please watch the short video below that shows you exactly what you need to do.
This is the final question from a recent interview on MO.com.
In addition to your consulting firm you also have a product called ‘QuoteActions’ consisting of motivational quotes and actions sent to businesses each day. How do you continually find inspiration and why do you feel it’s important to pass it on?
I’ve been a quote collector for years. I find that quotes pack a lot of punch. However the inspiration comes from doing not thinking. So that’s where I find my inspiration – from the people doing incredible things. I also get a lot of inspiration from people doing “impossible” things. I do believe that we all need to be inspired on a regular basis. And when you are the catalyst of that inspiration, you build a lot of Visibility and Credibility.
This is the second to last question I was asked during a recent interview with MO.com.
On your website you ask ‘Are you ready to triple the number of referrals you give and receive?’ Tripling the number of referrals is an impressive promise, what strategies to you employ to fulfill it?
It is all about using the VCP process (this is a registered service mark of the Referral Institute.) This process stands for the following : Visibility, Credibility and Profitability. Simply stated, people need to know of you first (V) then they need to trust that you are both competent and reputable (C) and then only then will then do business directly or indirectly (refer) with you. So I teach strategies to help people increase their Visibility and Credibility on LinkedIn. Plus I also teach them how to integrate LinkedIn with offline face-to-face networking.
This is the fourth question I was asked in a recent interview with MO.com
You’ve recently started to do presentations in Dubai. How have you managed to gain a foothold in the Middle Eastern market? Have you had to change or alter your message at all or does the core remain the same no matter the culture or type of business you run?
LinkedIn is responsible for me doing this! I am a member of a worldwide networking organization called BNI and I was contacted by one of the directors from Dubai who wanted to recommend me to one of his members for a Social Media conference they were having in Dubai last year. I said, “sure” thinking that it would never amount to anything. Imagine my surprise when I received a call from the organizer saying that they had looked at my LinkedIn profile and were so impressed that they hired me. I since have been back another time and will do so again next February.
I have had to alter very little since the core content remains the same. The only thing I change a bit are my metaphors and stories to better reflect the local culture.
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