LinkedIn business development best practices

Recently, I was asked by a friend new to LinkedIn how to make the best use of it for business development. My response went something like this:

LinkedIn is your business suit, in that it's designed strictly for business. The one exception is the Status Updates feature in the newsfeed that, in my opinon, does not fit the business tenor of the site. 

LI offers a number of business development features:

Individual Profile – That's the base of operations for any social network, but it's particularly important where LinkedIn is concerned.

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Do you have a social media system?

social media system

A couple of weeks ago John Jantsch, the Duct Tape Marketing guy, tagged me along with a number of others in a note saying that he had written a blog post outlining what he referred to as his "intra-daily, daily, weekly and monthly social media routine or system" and suggested that we follow suit.… Read More

Guest on Blog Business Success Radio with Wayne Hurlbert talking about the power of social media

You think I stuffed enough keywords into that title?! 

I'm a guest tonight on Wayne Hurlbert's Blog Business Success radio show which airs at 7 p.m. central, 8 p.m. eastern. 

We're going to be discussing the power of social media and I will share ideas for getting the most out of your social media
experience. 

Topics will include how to use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and more to
build lasting relationships that will grow your business, and we'll go beyond the "how" to discuss the "why."

Join us or listen to the archived version.

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Five ways to maximize your marketing dollar via the web

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I gave a talk today at the Sales and Marketing Executives meeting in Baton Rouge on the topic of using the web to maximize your marketing dollar and presented some cost-effective strategies to market through the recession.

At the conclusion of the meeting an attendee, Kent Blumberg, asked if I had blogged this information.… Read More

Connecting Google Friend Connect and Typepad Connect

I’ve created an online community on this blog called Friends of CMM (which I invite you to join btw), which includes a couple of widgets from Google Friend Connect, the new service that enables any Web site to have a social component.… Read More