Biz Growth Live Podcast: Boost Your Business Results With LinkedIn
Posted by: Krishna De | Posted on: August 11th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Posted in: Biz Growth Live, Networking offline, Networking online, Personal branding, Social media, Social networking
Did you miss our live ‘Biz Growth Live Masterclass’ about Gravitational Marketing?
Last week on ‘Biz Growth Live’, I was joined by LinkedIn expert Chuck Hester who will be sharing strategies and ideas to boost your business results through LinkedIn.
We shared specific actions you can take to will help you raise your profile and attract the opportunities we are looking for – be that a new client, business partner or career move.
You can now access the live streaming or download the interview. Be sure to take notes as we provided some invaluable advice building your personal brand online for professional success using LinkedIn.
SHOW NOTES
00:23 Show begins
02:53 What makes LinkedIn stand out as a social network for business
07:10 How Chuck uses LinkedIn to set up meetings and media relations versus his use of Facebook
08:57 How to use your profile on LinkedIn to reflect your personal brand online
12:56 How to make effective business connections on LinkedIn
16:52 Ideas and tips to raise our profile on LinkedIn to nurture business and career opportunities in a slowing economy
24:50 How to use the LinkedIn Questions/Answers facility to best effect so that you are not seen as a nuisance to your network
34:00 How to use LinkedIn to reduce costs of recruitment finding potential employees through LinkedIn
43:00 How to build a responsive and substantial LinkedIn
51:30 Creating and connecting LinkedIn with your ezine, for example with icontact.com – why you need an ezine and autoresponders and not just a blog
55:30 Using groups on LinkedIn to keep connected with your virtual team keeping your people engaged to the corporate agenda and engaged
58:48 Using the status update on LinkedIn and how to update them automatically
61:00 Additional resources and tips about LinkedIn
66:46 Show ends
HERE IS WHAT SOME OF OUR LISTENERS SAID ABOUT THE SHOW
Love Krishna’s show! Great stuff. Kim Dushinski, author and mobile marketing consultant
I just wanted to drop you a note to say that I thought your tips last evening for using Linked In were brilliant, really practical and I will be updating my profile as a result. Pamela Fay, Director of Business Performance Perspectives
HOW TO LISTEN TO THE SHOW
- Access the streaming audio of this weeks Biz Growth Live Podcast HERE
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You will also find us in iTunes – just search for Biz Growth Live.
HOW TO LEAVE A COMMENT
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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Find out more about icontact.com HERE.
Access you copy of ‘I’m on LinkedIn Now What’ HERE
Read Chuck’s blog HERE and you will find his LinkedIn profile HERE
Connect to Krishna on LinkedIn HERE
Access more of Krishna’s articles about LinkedIn HERE and her podcasts about LinkedIn HERE
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THIS WEEKS SHOW – 6pm Ireland/UK and 1pm ET on Monday 11 August 2008
Remember to join us next week for the live show when we will be joined by Elizabeth Marshall, coach and co-author of the soon to be released book ‘The Contrarian Effect’ and we’ll be talking about becoming recession proof through collaboration rather than competing and creating joint venture partnerships.
Join us by either listening to the live streaming of the show, or you can dial in to our Biz Growth Live Blog Talk Radio show (it’s a US number).
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And if you miss the show, don’t worry, its available as a podcast.
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