Social media lends itself very well to pitching products. A link here, there, and everywhere promoting “my junk” as Anita Campbell of Biz Sugar told Social Media Examiner is not the best message to send.
This video is only 7 minutes long but it’s packed with good information. Also, check out Biz Sugar. It seems to be a great place to hone your writing skills and get plenty of exposure for your content. I registered already. If you do too, let me know what you think.
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Here is the second article in the Learning LinkedIn series that we kicked off last week with the article, Is LinkedIn Answers Worth the Investment for B2B Professionals. This week we continue with a chat about the profile, which is the key to protecting your online reputation on LinkedIn.
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Is it time to stop telling people what to do once they get to our social sites?
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Surprisingly, many business professionals still do not know what LinkedIn is supposed to do for them beyond connections. LinkedIn is a feature rich social site that is all business all the time. In this post, we will discuss how LinkedIn Answers can be a strategy that helps build strong networking relationships with people who you already know, as well as, those you would like to know.
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I love to read! The only thing I love better than reading is sharing. So, who else better to share the content that I find interesting about social media than with you, my dear reader.
Here are a few articles I found interesting:
Social Media and Home Improvement: This is an article about Home Depot’s development of a new social media customer service representative. In addition to their regular duties, this employee will spend 3 days a week creating how to videos and answering customer questions through social media. Could this be a hit?
You can learn something from a grandmother: I’m a grandmother so this article from Social Media Today caught my eye. It’s true that many of the ideas about relationship building with social media are just plain old stuff your grandmother taught you.
Ways to use LinkedIn to build business: Using LinkedIn has gone from what is it to how do I use it effectively. This article gives 16 great ways to develop your LinkedIn prescence.
Sharing is caring. What have you been reading lately that you’d like to share?
