When setting up your LinkedIn profile, you have the option of keeping your connection list private or public. Having them set to public doesn’t mean everyone in the world can see them; only your LinkedIn connections can see your other connections. What are the pros and cons of keeping your LinkedIn list public? If you […]
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LinkedIn has a much more rigid set of rules regarding adding new people than other social media sites. If you break the rules you are much more likely to get a virtual hand-slap or get your account frozen than on any other site. It’s also not immediately clear how to converse with people you don’t
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In November 2008 LinkedIn added an Events Feature. This feature allows members to add events they are organizing or merely attending. Since this feature is fairly new and not yet widely used, it does have some nice potential as a networking and marketing tool. When you go to the events home, it lists upcoming events.
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One Tuesday last spring, Twitter users logged into their accounts to discover all their followers were gone. So were the people they were following. Instead of being part of one big Twitter party, everyone was alone in the virtual Twitterverse. What happened? Twitter’s server crashed and deleted everyone’s followers. For Twitter addicts this was a
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Update Notice: This is still a useful post, however you might also want to read a more recent one LinkedIn Connections – should you connect with people you don’t know? LinkedIn is one of my favourite social networking sites. It is full of business professionals who use the site for business purposes. No one is going
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Many small business owners are still asking “what the point of social media?” In spite of Facebook’s statistics that the fastest growing group of users is the over 25 group, a large number of people still haven’t taken the plunge. Another group has signed up to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or another group and then scratch
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Updated May 2017 If you’re new to social media marketing and trying to figure out where to start, it can be a daunting task. There are so many different sites; where do you go first? Even if there is a social media site devoted specifically to your industry or teeming with your target market, I
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Going to a conference or other industry event can be a great boost to your business. You learn new things, hear about future trends and network within your industry. But if you’re a solopreneur, particularly if you’re outside of a major urban centre, how do you find out about events and how do you figure
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One of the hardest things about being an entrepreneur is not having someone to bounce ideas off of. You don’t have anyone in the next cubicle to ask “hey, how do you do …” However, if you’ve built a good social media network, you can have the next best thing. I’m currently organizing a course
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I find that many of my LinkedIn contacts are not people I have in my email address book. As I get to know my LinkedIn connections I gradually accumulate more information about them: phone numbers, addresses, personal information. In order to keep track of it all, I’ve been creating an entry for them in my
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