Archive for the ‘LinkedIn Profiles’ Category
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Check out this cool post by Steve Duncan titled You need to look at more profiles. Steve talks about how he got on someone's radar just because he looked at her LinkedIn Profile...
Are you looking at enough Profiles of key people you want to network with? Or, do you check ...
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Friday, January 29th, 2010
I am on a newsletter that Marc Freedman puts out where I learned about an Irish startup, Goshido, that got it's first round of financing by using LinkedIn.
Only LinkedIn.
And they apparently closed the round in eight days (having been looking at financing for the last 4 years, I find that ...
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
In the last post I talked about how to cheat the system by joining Groups (in regards to contacting people you find on LinkedIn).
Here's another tactic, though, which I've used. When I find a target contact I will use the internal messaging if I have to. I like LinkedIn Introductions, ...
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
Last week I blogged about using LinkedIn Companies to find relevant contacts.
It made me think about one of the options I regularly use when I get search results on LinkedIn. Check out the option I find myself choosing almost all the time:
I used to do just "Relationship," which is, show ...
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
I was just browsing through a few first degree contacts on LinkedIn and found a guy who I had lunch with a couple of years ago. I wondered what he was up to and something caught my eye: in his LinkedIn Summary he has a "list of skills."
This is a ...
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Earlier this week I was doing a LinkedIn presentation to over 200 business owners, entrepreneurs and marketers. I showed a LinkedIn Profile and noted the best use of the Box.net Application I've seen on a Profile.
One of the participants emailed me after the presentation and asked why, when he went ...
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Monday, September 7th, 2009
Brad Attig is a career coach and a JibberJobber Partner - he has a good post titled A little LinkedIn Contraversy where he talks about what you should put in your "employment status" on LinkedIn. The concepts he brings up apply to the status as well as the LinkedIn Professional ...
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Well, this is an almost damn good LinkedIn Summary... I see some things to enhance (like capitalizing letters, adding periods, etc. :p).
But really, I LOVE the highlighted part:
You might get hung up on the lack of periods, but you gotta admit, there's something awesome about exhuding confidence.
Does your LinkedIn Summary ...
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
When I first got my LinkedIn Profile "done," I thought I was good for a while. And really, I was.
But the more I dug into good great LinkedIn Profiles, the more I realized I could tweak this part or that part. In fact, there is a lot to tweak....but I ...
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Friday, July 17th, 2009
Remember the LinkedIn Makeover I blogged about a couple of days ago? Here's a brilliant idea that you can now see on Clint's LinkedIn Profile...remember, Clint is a programmer... a systems architect... a GEEK.
This is so cool - very on-brand in a humorous way:
If you are a programmer this speaks ...
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