Sunday May 22nd, 2011
With more than 140 million user profiles, and 2 million company profiles, LinkedIn has become the place to network in the B2B world. While Facebook will always remain the social network giant, those professionals looking to network on a business to business level hang out on LinkedIn.
In 2010 alone, there were nearly 2 billion people searches conducted on LinkedIn. That was BILLION with a B!
I have had a LinkedIn profile for year, but never really took the time to leverage it for my business.
I have been a consultant for 14 years now. 12 of those years on software development, and 6 in marketing. If I knew back then what I know now about how to optimize LinkedIn, I would have gone solo instead of subcontracting a lot sooner.
But Your Clients As Well…
Think about it, the more connected you are… the more valuable you are to your customers.
I have always heard “Your Net Worth Is Directly Related To Your Network”. In the last month, I have really found that to be absolutely true.
In about one month, my connections on LinkedIn went from about 250 to over 1500. Everyday, about 20,000 new people are added to my extended network as more people connect with me on LinkedIn.
You may be thinking to yourself, “Wow! I could add this as a service for my customers, too…”
You are absolutely right, I have done that myself. With some key customers that are already active on LinkedIn, I have sat down and went through the process with them setting up their profile so they can not only be found, but generate incoming inquiries as well. Now, as their network grows so does mine because we are already connected on LinkedIn.
Exactly 7 days after I first optimized my profile, I got an invite from one of my new connections to be a guest blogger on a marketing blog with to blog posts a month and a full bio page. This blog has a 73,000 Alexa rating! and a huge subscriber base.
About 6 more days after that, I received another inquiry from a connection in Australia wanting a quote/proposal for several logo designs and 20+ mini-site designs for a project they were doing.
Everyday, new messages show up in my inbox on LinkedIn. Some are just welcome messages, others are messages like above and JV requests.
As I told friends about what I was doing on LinkedIn, interest grew. I then walked them through the process, and they saw the same results. Several of them suggested I created a product describing how to do it, so that’s how we got here.
I have spent hours scouring the internet to figure out how to put it all together in a complete package. Today, I am offering you the opportunity to cut countless hours of research down to a minimal WSO investment and take the shortcut to LinkedIn Optimization.
Like I said, if you answered yes to any of the questions above you can definitely benefit from this training. You may already have a profile on LinkedIn, gaining dust and lonely for visitors. This training helps people find you. Marketing is great, but inbound marketing, with people actually contacting you is awesome!
