LinkedIn Made Easy: Business Social Networking Simplified 3rd Edition


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This is a 'how-to' guide that explains both how, and more importantly why, we might use LinkedIn to improve our business and professional profile or find a new career.




120 Ways To Achieve Your Purpose With LinkedIn


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‘120 Ways To Achieve Your Purpose With LinkedIn: Tried And True Tips And Techniques’ is for: defining and achieving your purpose managing your LinkedIn Profile, Company Page and Group exploring LinkedIn features including Newsfeed, Pulse, Apps job search, career development, business and social enterprise measuring and improving your performance statistics, backups, solving issues, taking action and achieving results It includes information for: students, job seekers and career changers freelancers, entrepreneurs and business owners advisers, consultants and thought leaders community groups and professional associations schools, colleges and universities anyone who wants to leverage their skills, knowledge and networks This thorough, practical and detailed guide provides you with the key strategies and techniques, based on your purpose, that you can implement today for your success in the future. Get started and take action now! **Special free bonus offers at https://120ways.com/members Chapter Outline Preface Introduction 1. It’s All About Purpose 1.1 Take Action To Achieve Your Purpose 1.2 Prepare Your Own Action Plan 1.3 Selecting Your Purpose – Based On Your Values 1.4 Learn The Skills To Achieve Your Purpose 1.5 Aim For 80% Rather Than 100% 1.6 Define Your Boundaries On Your Terms 2. Pre Work Starting Points 2.1 Select The Initial Purposes You Would Like To Achieve 2.2 Select Your Primary Keywords 2.3 Select Your Secondary Keywords 2.4 Prepare For The Process 2.5 Allocate Some Time To Achieve Your Purpose 2.6 Collect Some Baseline Statistics And Backup Your Data 2.7 Overcome Your LinkedIn Hang-ups 2.8 Improve Your Digital Literacy 2.9 Familiarize Yourself With The Functions Of LinkedIn 2.10 The Dangers Of Using LinkedIn Incorrectly 3. Creating And Updating Your LinkedIn Profile 3.1 Do This Before Updating Your LinkedIn Profile 3.2 Essential Edit For Every LinkedIn Profile 3.3 The Computer Experience – Attracting Viewers 3.4 The User Experience – Convince Viewers 3.5 LinkedIn Strategy And Tactics – Convert For Results 4. Performance Power Tools 4.1 Post On LinkedIn 4.2 Join Relevant Groups On LinkedIn 4.3 Follow Relevant Companies On LinkedIn 4.4 Maximize Your Education 4.5 Select Your Influencers (Following) 4.6 Select Your Channels (Following) 4.7 Select Your News Publishers 4.8 Decide How To Respond To Your News Feed 4.9 Create A Schedule For Endorsing Skills Of Connections 4.10 Select A Recommendations Strategy 4.11 Select A Connections Strategy 4.12 Decide What You Will Do On A Regular Basis 5. Job Search Strategies 5.1 Select A Range Of Concurrent Strategies 5.2 Do Your Research 5.3 Find Suitable Mentors Through LinkedIn 5.4 Reach Out To Your Network 5.5 Apply For Jobs Listed On LinkedIn 5.6 View The Career Sections Of Selected Companies 5.7 Connect With Recruiters 5.8 Connect With Professional Association Members 5.9 Tailor Your Photo, Headline And Summary 5.10 Understand Job Search Algorithms 5.11 Prepare For Job Interviews 5.12 The Key To Job Search Success 6. Career Development 6.1 Identifying Choices And Making Decisions 6.2 Understanding The Local Market 6.3 Overcoming Barriers To Entry 6.4 Massaging The Message 6.5 Add Some Flair To Your LinkedIn Profile 6.6 Changing Your Purpose, Job or Enterprise Direction 7. Recruitment And Human Resources Practices 7.1 Perceived LinkedIn Risks To Enterprises 7.2 How To Interpret LinkedIn Profiles 7.3 How To Find Quality Candidates Via Advanced Search 7.4 Posting Job Ads On LinkedIn 7.5 Preparing For Job Interviews 7.6 Inducting New Employees 7.7 LinkedIn For Leaders, Managers And Employees 7.8 LinkedIn For Leaving Employees 7.9 LinkedIn For Former Employees 8. Business and Social Enterprise 8.1 Establishing Quality Enterprise Real Estate On LinkedIn 8.2 Building Your Enterprise Digital Asset 8.3 Enterprise Updates Via Your LinkedIn Company Profile 8.4 Create A Style Guide For Your Company Updates 8.5 Options For Your LinkedIn Social Media Policy 8.6 Effective Strategies For Your LinkedIn Group 8.7 Messages From The CEO and Management 8.8 Getting Sales Via LinkedIn 8.9 Follow Up Techniques For Success 8.10 Measuring Your Return On Investment 8.11 Choose Your Overall Enterprise LinkedIn Strategy 9. Generational Tips For LinkedIn Profiles For Individuals 9.1 Students In Secondary Or Tertiary Education 9.2 Early Career 9.3 Mid-Career 9.4 Career Changers 9.5 Late Career 9.6 Retirement 10. Schools, Colleges And Universities 10.1 Applying For A University Profile 10.2 Benefits Of A University Profile 10.3 Tools For Higher Education Professionals 10.4 Tools For University Students 10.5 Add To Profile Qualification Or Certification Button 11. International Purposes 12. Personal Branding And Reputation Management 12.1 Personal Branding Tips 12.2 Reputation Management Tips 12.3 Networks You Need In Your Life 13. Research 13.1 Searching For People 13.2 Saving Your Searches 13.3 Taking Action From Your Searches 14. Referrals 14.1 Referral Marketing 14.2 Referral Sharing 14.3 Referral Automation 15. Relationships 15.1 Building And Developing Relationships 15.2 Changing And Challenging Relationships 15.3 Relationships That Have Ended 16. Achieving Your Goals 16.1 Top 20 Tips And Techniques 16.2 Your Minimum Targets 16.3 Questions And Answers 17. LinkedIn Special Features 17.1 LinkedIn Information 17.2 LinkedIn Products 17.3 LinkedIn Resources 17.4 LinkedIn Apps 17.5 LinkedIn Tools 17.6 LinkedIn Indexes 18. Future Of LinkedIn 19. Full List Of 120 Actions 20. Bonuses Appendix 1 – List of Career Development Enterprises Index




Crack the Funding Code


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Crack the Funding Code demystifies the world of angel investing, venture capital, and corporate funding and lays out a strategic pathway for any entrepreneur to secure funding fast. Lack of funding is one of the biggest reasons small businesses fail. In 2016 in the United States alone, more than 31 percent of small business owners reported that they could not access adequate capital, and the lack of capital prevented them from growing the business/expanding operations, increasing inventory, or financing increased sales. This book will show you how to find the money, create pitches that attract investors, and then structure fair, ethical deals that will bring them new sources of outside capital and invaluable professional advice. Crack the Funding Code gives you the broader perspective on: how funding works, how investors think, and what they need to hear to put their money where your mouth is. Every entrepreneur who reads this book will get easy-to-follow deal checklists, a roadmap of where and how to locate the best funding resources and top business mentors for their industry or geographical location, and a step-by-step process to create pitches that make their idea or business irresistible.




Social Media Marketing


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Ranked among the best marketing/advertisement books in the world by Bookauthority Here comes the 4th edition of the global bestseller 'Social Media Marketing' by marketing guru Philip Kotler, Svend Hollensen and Marc Opresnik. Marketing communication is undergoing a digital revolution. The increasing popularity of blogging, podcasting, and social networks enables world customers to broadcast their views about a product or service to a potential audience of billions. Traditional advertising does not work as well as it has in the past. This completely revised and extended fourth edition of this guide, chosen by Bookauthority as one of the best marketing/advertising books in the world, leads readers through the maze of communities, platforms, and social media tools so that they can better decide which tools to use, and how to use them most effectively. For beginners overwhelmed by too many choices as well as experienced professionals eager to improve their game, this comprehensive book is full of tactics that have been proven to work in the real marketing world. This book will take you beyond the jargon to social media marketing mastery. Reviews 'This book is an indispensable guidance for 21st century professional marketers, who seek to leverage social media to win in consumer communication.' Kohzoh Takaoka, President & CEO, Nestlé Japan Ltd. 'This is the book that will help you master social media, the indispensable element in every marketing program.' Al Ries, Chairman, Ries & Ries 'This book is a comprehensive treatment of social media marketing where the principles and strategies laid out for the executives could result in a significant profitable growth for many firms.' V Kumar, Ph.D., Richard and Susan Lenny Distinguished Chair, & Regents' Professor of Marketing, Georgia State University, USA 'This guide provides a solid, succinct overview of social media, practical tips which marketers can feed into their social media strategies and which researchers can use to further understand the phenomena they study in the social media context.' Dr. Violetta Wilk, Ph.D., Researcher and Lecturer in Marketing, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia The authors Philip Kotler is the S. C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, and one of the world's leading authorities on marketing. His writing has defined marketing around the world for the past decades. Philip Kotler is the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees and is widely considered as the 'Father of Modern Marketing'. Svend Hollensen is an Associate Professor of International Marketing at the University of Southern Denmark. He is the author of globally published textbooks and several articles in well-recognised journals. Svend Hollensen has also worked as a consultant for several multinational companies, as well as global organizations like the World Bank. Marc Opresnik is a Distinguished Professor of Marketing at the Technische Hochschule Lübeck and Member of the Board of Directors at SGMI Management Institute St. Gallen. He is Chief Research Officer at Kotler Impact Inc. and a global co-author of marketing legend Philip Kotler. With his many years of international experience, Marc Opresnik is one of the world's most renowned marketing, management and negotiation experts.




Choose Your WoW!


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"Hundreds of organizations around the world have already benefited from Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD). Disciplined Agile (DA) is the only comprehensive tool kit available for guidance on building high-performance agile teams and optimizing your way of working (WoW). As a hybrid of all the leading agile and lean approaches, it provides hundreds of strategies to help you make better decisions within your agile teams, balancing self-organization with the realities and constraints of your unique enterprise context. The highlights of this handbook include: #1. As the official source of knowledge on DAD, it includes greatly improved and enhanced strategies with a revised set of goal diagrams based upon learnings from applying DAD in the field. #2 It is an essential handbook to help coaches and teams make better decisions in their daily work, providing a wealth of ideas for experimenting with agile and lean techniques while providing specific guidance and trade-offs for those "it depends" questions. #3 It makes a perfect study guide for Disciplined Agile certification. Why "fail fast" (as our industry likes to recommend) when you can learn quickly on your journey to high performance? With this handbook, you can make better decisions based upon proven, context-based strategies, leading to earlier success and better outcomes"--




Likeable Social Media: How to Delight Your Customers, Create an Irresistible Brand, and Be Generally Amazing on Facebook (& Other Social Networks)


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THE NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER! The secret to successful word-of-mouth marketing on the social web is easy: BE LIKEABLE. A friend's recommendation is more powerful than any advertisement. In the world of Facebook, Twitter, and beyond, that recommendation can travel farther and faster than ever before. Likeable Social Media helps you harness the power of word-of-mouth marketing to transform your business. Listen to your customers and prospects. Deliver value, excitement, and surprise. And most important, learn how to truly engage your customers and help them spread the word. Praise for Likeable Social Media: Dave Kerpen's insights and clear, how-to instructions on building brand popularity by truly engaging with customers on Facebook, Twitter, and the many other social media platforms are nothing short of brilliant. Jim McCann, founder of 1-800-FLOWERS.COM and Celebrations.com Alas, common sense is not so common. Dave takes you on a (sadly, much needed) guided tour of how to be human in a digital world. Seth Godin, author of Poke the Box Likeable Social Media cuts through the marketing jargon and technical detail to give you what you really need to make sense of this rapidly changing world of digital marketing and communications. Being human — being likeable — will get you far. Scott Monty, Global Digital Communications, Ford Motor Company Dave gives you what you need: Practical, specific how-to advice to get people talking about you. Andy Sernovitz, author of Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking







The Power Formula for LinkedIn Success (Fourth Edition - Completely Revised)


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4th edition of the world’s most popular LinkedIn handbook—completely revised and updated, including tips for the mobile app ​Many LinkedIn books focus solely on creating a killer profile. But LinkedIn is not a spectator event. You can't just show up and wait for people to come to you. LinkedIn is a professional networking community, and opportunities abound to make real money and advance your career. In addition to helping you create a magnetic, professional profile, this book will show you how to develop a comprehensive strategy for achieving your business and career goals. Over 100,000 professionals have already used Breitbarth's LinkedIn secrets to land lucrative new customers and top-notch employees, grow their businesses and brands, and find great new jobs. And most people have only scratched the surface of LinkedIn's potential. The Power Formula for LinkedIn Success will help you: • Set yourself apart from the LinkedIn masses and build a powerful professional network • Attract and engage with people who need your products, services, or skills • Locate the right people for business partnerships and revenue opportunities • Discover insider information about employers, customers, and competitors • Find a great new job—many times when you're not even looking for one! LinkedIn is one of the most powerful business tools on the planet—and The Power Formula for LinkedIn Success is your perfect step-by-step guide to mastering it!




LinkedIn Marketing


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A step-by-step guide for succeeding on the for ''business'' social media network LinkedIn Marketing: An Hour a Day helps you create, customize, and optimize a presence on LinkedIn, the world's largest social network for professionals. In this detailed, step-by-step book, LinkedIn expert Viveka von Rosen reveals how to use this powerful platform to ensure that you or your company get noticed by the right audience. Discover previously undocumented tips and tricks for community growth and management, including how to best use Groups, events, and other LinkedIn features and applications. Offers a complete resource for anyone who wants to market and recruit on the world's largest professional network Features hands-on tutorials, case studies, examples, tips, and tactics Reveals how to monitor and maintain a vibrant LinkedIn presence Includes effective tactics for recruiters, job seekers, and entrepreneurs, as well as legal, real estate, and nonprofit professionals Incorporates an exploration of the LinkedIn advertising platform, API, and mobile platform This soup-to-nuts guidebook for tackling every stage of the LinkedIn process ensures your online presence will get noticed.




How to be a Power Connector (PB)


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Create a personal "power grid" of influence to spark professional and personal success "Other people have the answers, deals, money, access, power, and influence you need to get what you want in this world. To achieve any goal, you need other people to help you do it." -- JUDY ROBINETT As anyone in business knows, strategic planning is critical to achieving long-term success. In How to Be a Power Connector, super-networker Judy Robinett argues that strategic relationship planning should be your top priority. When you combine your specific skills and talents with a clear, workable path for creating and managing your relationships, nothing will stop you from meeting your goals. With high-value connections, you'll tap into a dynamic "power grid" of influence guaranteed to accelerate your personal and professional success. Robinett uses her decades of experience connecting the world's highest achievers with one another to help you build high-value relationships. She reveals all the secrets of her trade, including proven ways to: Find and enter the best network "ecosystem" to meet your goals Reach even the most unreachable people quickly and effectively Get anyone's contact information within 30 seconds Create a "3-D connection" that adds value to multiple people at the same time Access key infl uencers through industry and community events Subtly seed conversation with information about interests and needs Use social media to your best advantage Robinett has based her methods on solid research proving that social groups begin to break up when they become larger than 150 people, and that 50 members is the optimal size for group communication. As such, she has developed what she calls the "5+50+100" method: contact your top 5 connections daily, your Key 50 weekly, and your Vital 100 monthly. this is your power grid, and it will work wonders for your career. Nothing will stop you when you learn How to Be a Power Connector. PRAISE FOR HOW TO BE A POWER CONNECTOR: "Unlike many books in this genre, this one is written by a woman who has lived it.. . . Judy Robinett offers guidance on how to form authentic relationships that bring mutual benefits." -- ADAM GRANT, Wharton professor and New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take "How to Be a Power Connector is like an MBA in networking: an advanced course in finding and developing quality relationships with the people who can make the biggest difference in your professional success." -- IVAN MISNER, founder and chairman of BNI "Talk about power! Follow Judy Robinett's logical, straightforward, and helpfully detailed advice, and you can be a 'Power Connector' yourself! Great ideas, well presented, with no ‘wasted space’ in her argument!" -- DON PEPPERS, coauthor of Extreme Trust: Honesty as a Competitive Advantage "Absolutely brilliant. A step-by-step guide to building a network that will be both invaluable to you and just as valuable to those whose lives you will now have the opportunity to touch. I can't imagine a more powerful book for one who truly desires to be a Power Connector." -- BOB BURG, coauthor of The Go-Giver and author of Adversaries into Allies "In the C-Suite or in your personal life everything comes down to the quality of your relationships. Judy's book helps you attract and maintain the relationships that will get you what you want most. Be a super connector now!" -- JEFFREY HAYZLETT, TV host and bestselling author of Running the Gauntlet