Use these Strategies to Bypass Gatekeepers
Finding acceptable ways to get around gatekeepers is a hot topic for both salespeople and entrepreneurs. Saddled with the need to continually contact new prospective clients only to not be able to get through is highly frustrating. It takes time away from meeting with clients and implementing sales.
Even with diplomacy, the common experience is …
Social Media Mistakes Candidates Make During Job Search
Social media can both advance and hinder your career depending on how you use it. Most of the recruiters admit that they look at candidates’ social media profiles before making their decision. Therefore, you have to be careful about how you use social media and who can see your posts. You probably don’t want to …
Find New Prospects For Your Personal Brand With Twitter
Twitter is still a top social network for your personal brand to build a strong community and attract new leads. If you want to increase your sales it’s important to add an effective social selling strategy here, which offers opportunities to connect with influencers, more insights into your target market, and much more.
How can …
Personal Brands: The Art of the Snap
Adorned with a cute ghost as a logo, Snapchat is the latest social media platform to become a viable marketing tool for solopreneurs and freelancers. However, for those that know anything about the app, this seems counterintuitive. After all, the pictures or videos that are shared last only a few brief moments before they disappear …
Mastering Your LinkedIn Profile
How often do you look at other people’s LinkedIn profiles?
How often do you look at your own LinkedIn profile?
If the answer to the second question is never … it’s time to bite the bullet.
Take 5 minutes and read this post, then go to your LinkedIn profile and do a quick sanity check …
A Time and Place
If you work out regularly and are making great progress, you should be proud. Most of us want to share this elation by posting pictures of our shapely arms or rounded butts in celebration. It’s only natural now that so many of our closest friends and family members are more easily reached via social media. …
Mastering Hygiene on LinkedIn
Have you done a LinkedIn Checkup lately?
If not, now is the time.
It won’t take long and it’s not hard.
Over the last few weeks I have written a series of posts about Mastering LinkedIn. The topics were purposely short and consumable. I created short videos for each of them and posted the written …
Secrets of the Tag and Your Personal Brand
You know tags are an important part of social media. You know the two symbols associated with tagging. You’ve even managed to master a bit of the etiquette ascribed to tagging people. While this is definitely a step in the right direction, there’s still more to the equation. Once you understand all of it, your …
Mastering the LinkedIn Private View
Who’s been looking at your LinkedIn Profile?
What LinkedIn Profiles have you been looking at?
There are three options for LinkedIn profile privacy.
This LinkedIn option is part of the Privacy Settings that allows you to determine how much information you share when you are viewing someone else’s LinkedIn Profile.
I’ll explore all three of …
Link Social Media with Your Career Goals
Why is the phenomenon of social media so important?
Social media serve to develop mutual relationships based on trust. It is a very broad-based approach, as opposed to traditional networking, which is more targeted and narrower. For example, if you have a LinkedIn profile, a Web site, or a blog, people come to you to …