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How to Complete Your LinkedIn Profile

Many people have been asking me about LinkedIn so I recorded a short tutorial on the LinkedIn Profile and a few ways to use LnkedIn.

I have been using LinkedIn for about 4 months. At first I was not too excited - but I did not get the big picture at that time. Now LinkedIn has become an actual resource in my business. It provides so many things like:

• Ability to meet new people that your contacts already know
• Ability to promote yourself and/or business to all other LinkedIn users
• Ability to get business related questions answered
• Ability to show your expertise by answering other peoples questions
• and many more features

There were a few drawback though -

• I could not export my contacts
• Could not separate contacts into groups
• Could not email more than 10 people at a time

These were my main complaints - but no more.

Check out this cool new tool that can be added onto your LinkedIn account. It is a contacts manager that allows manipulation of your LinkedIn contacts so they are way more useful. Here is a post in a forum where I learned about the Tool.

There is a run down of the benefits of this tool - all very positive and the tool is free!

For those of you that still have your LinkekIn website links labeled as My Website and My Blog check out my previous post to get that changed.

For those of you that have not completed your profiles you should read this post: Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile  This post gives several ideas about completing your profile. 

The LinkedIn Questions feature is a great benefit for members.  Here is an example of how to use the Questions feature: In Praise of LinkedIn’s Questions Feature - I have always received good input and have made new connections from the Questions feature.

In the post LinkedIn — the gift that keeps on giving - the benefits of a world wide network of professionals is explained.  Overall for a business professional LinkedIn is the Social Networking site that Works for You.

You have spent a great deal of time getting your LinkedIn profile just perfect.  It is finally at 100%.  Is it helping you with Google?  There are a few simple things that you can do to your profile that will make it found in Google better.

• Edit your LinkedIn personal url to have either your name in it or your business name
• When entering your Websites and Blogs use the “other” category.  This will allow the title that shows in your profile to be customized.  Use either your Website/Blog address or the Key Words you want to rank for in the Search Engines.

Take a few minutes right now and go to your LinkedIn profile and make these changes.  I dare you!

Here are a few other articles about LinkedIn that you might find interesting.

Blogger Appreciation Day on LinkedIn - Put your blog down as a separate job on your LinkIn profile. I’m going to do that today. Blogger Appreciation Day April 14 Here are a couple of ideas on how to implement this with LinkedIn:. 1. Connect with the bloggers you know. …

Learning how to LinkIn and what it’s worth - Once you join, you post a profile (basically your résumé and information on any services you provide). Then you link to friends by inviting them to join (I don’t do that; feels too much like bothering people who already have too much to …

Here’s to your SEOing for your business

Dotty

I came across this post by the blog: How to Change the World.  I covers some very good ideas for using LinkedIn - an awesome Internet Networking site for Professionals.  I have been using LinkedIn for only a few months but have made some wonderful connections that I would never have made in person.  This blog post is worth reading fro people that are members but not sure how to use the service as well as people that have not yet joined because they do not see the benefit.