Are you proud of your LinkedIn presence?
Now more than ever your next clients and customers are researching their next supplier or partner online. They’re looking for what YOU offer. Is your LinkedIn Profile client-ready?
I had the privilege of leaving my usual playground of LinkedIn in favour of Facebook and joining Fleek Marketing’s Jonny Ross in his LIVE Q&A today. The video session was streamed live on Coronavirus Yorkshire Business Support Group Facebook group and YouTube, and organised jointly with Leeds based, UK Cloud Computing and Software Hosting experts virtualDCS. The aim was to answer any LinkedIn questions people in the audience had to help them make the right impression on LinkedIn.
The Coronavirus Yorkshire Business Support Group Facebook group is a set of business leaders from a variety of professions who have a simple mission to make a difference and provide support during the COVID-19 outbreak. They intend to keep the Yorkshire economy strong throughout the coronavirus situation.
Their free support network is designed for any organisation looking for advice during the virus outbreak. The group host live Q&As covering all topics from Communications, Finance and HR to Employment Law and IT.
If you’ve never done a piece of work on yourself to identify what the keywords are in your business-related life, then it’s a really useful exercise to do.
Take some time out and jot down on a piece of paper everything that’s important to you, including the keywords associated with your business and your skills.
From that ‘brain dump’ certain keywords will stand out. Try to incorporate those keywords into your Headline and turn that Headline into some sort of personal statement: ‘I help my customers to…’
LinkedIn is a bit like a search engine similar to Google so including the right keywords in your Headline and About section is a MUST.
LinkedIn is about lead generation but in a meaningful and trustworthy environment; it’s NOT automated lead generation (something I hate with a passion!).
When I ask the question: “How many pieces of new business do you need in the next 12 months to make your business really successful?” It’s rare people say they need more than 10 new pieces of business when their own business is a business-to-business one.
Then I ask them: “What’s your conversion rate when you get in front of the right person, with the right product and the chemistry is right?” Most people say, it’s pretty high and they win a lot of those opportunities.
So let’s say I lower that percentage and take the highest figure of 10 new pieces of business and lower the conversion rate percentage to 50, I’m then saying, “you need 20 prospects in your pipeline this year to make yourself successful, do you?” And they often reply with, “Yes, I guess if you put it that way I do”.
So why not concentrate on using LinkedIn to absolutely have a focused strategy on being attractive with your content to the right 20 people who are going to make you successful in the next 12 months?
We engage with each other on LinkedIn. We have relationships with Connections (other people!) on LinkedIn. Companies on LinkedIn are kind of like third party inanimate objects, you can’t have a conversation with a company. So, using your Company Page on LinkedIn is a complete and utter waste of time.
This is because:
So honestly, Company Page content doesn’t work in terms of being an engagement vehicle. Engagement and opportunity come from us sharing and communicating on LinkedIn as individuals.
It is vital to have a Company Page if only to legitimise you, particularly if you work for yourself, against a company name and to bring through the logo on your Profile, to make you look professional. Make sure you fill out all the fields the Company Page affords, such as the link to your business website.
I’d advise posting once a month on your Company Page, just so it doesn’t look like it’s gone to sleep, but don’t expect engagement to come from it. You build your personal brand and the ambassadorship of your brand through yourself or the people you employ, make them the ambassadors of your brand on their Profiles. That way you have multiple channels of content, reaching their Connections and amplifying your brand’s exposure.
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