Informed Podcast by Mark Williams The podcast for LinkedIn™️ users

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Sat, 28 November 2015

Episode 91. View-Accept-Reply!

NEWS

Naomi Lewis wrote an article for ‘Look Magazine’
Here is the new LinkedIn sales tool called elink. It looks expensive but maybe an option to Autopilot if your market is very active on Twitter.
A LinkedIn success story. A start-up founder get his funding by connecting and building trust with someone in Australia who knew someone who wanted to invest.
Shocking sexist job ad by a company from Toronto that appeared on LinkedIn.
Three changes to LinkedIn this week;
- The main font and colour scheme has reverted to the dull black and grey scheme.
- You can now embed link to a wider variety of media in LinkedIn published posts
- Invitation ‘cards’ have been redesigned making it easier to see a customized message.

COMMENTARY

I have found great success with my new VAR system.

V = View a profile (a lot with autopilot)

A = Accept the invitation (assuming they are a prospect)

R = Reply to their invitation

It certainly works well for me, why not give it a try.

QUESTION (From James from the US)

How does LinkedIn determine someone’s ‘function’ on LinkedIn when there is no field in a profile for this?

Direct download: LinkedInformed2091.mp3
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Sat, 21 November 2015

Episode 90. Are you up for the LInkedIn Challenge?

News

3 charts that prove that LinkedIn is on fire! This article’s most interesting fact is the comparable rate of member/user growth amongst the three main social networks.
Woman creates fake LinkedIn profile to give credibility to her Disney scam. This is a timely warning that we should all check that the listed employees associated to our company pages are legitimate.

Commentary

I have gathered more feedback about the new LinkedIn app from Android users and it seems to be universally disliked! Whilst I can’t make a judgment myself yet, it does seem shocking that LinkedIn are still unable to produce an effective mobile app!
This week I enjoyed chatting with Sarah Santacroce about her LinkedIn challenge, which starts on 1 December.
Thanks also to Kate Lister for her voicemail stating her reasons for connecting with someone. Kate is a florist in Grimsby who wins business from her LinkedIn activities, I interviewed Kate in episode seven of my Winbusinessin podcast.

Question

This week I was asked a question that I regularly get when I am running training sessions and it’s always a tricky one to deal with so, on the spur of the moment I asked Sarah to help me answer it!

“I have two businesses that are both applicable to LinkedIn so should I have two separate profiles or try to cover both within the same profile?”

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Direct download: LinkedInformed2090.mp3
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Sat, 14 November 2015

Episode 89. Who do you invite to connect?

Welcome to a new episode of the award-winning LinkedIn podcast. This week I covered a wide variety of topics.

News

LinkedIn announced their new Air Traffic Control (ATC) platform for improving the quality and quantity of messages and notifications we receive from LinkedIn.
LinkedIn appeared to have ambitious plans for Lynda.com
Profile view daily limits have reduced to an estimated maximum of 850 per day.
LinkedIn release their new mobile app on Android (that’s a first).

Commentary

Will the LinkedIn groups go the way of the dodo? Excellent article from Bruce Johnston.
Who do you connect with and why? Do you follow LinkedIn’s advice to only connect with those you already know or do you just invite anyone? Please let me know, It will be really interesting to hear the views of everyone on this one. You can email me at mark@linkedinformed.com or simply leave a voicemail by clicking on the link on the right of this page.
Be aware that a scam email is circulating that looks remarkably like a LinkedIn invitation email.

Question

This week we had a voicemail question from Paul Copcutt about the new LinkedIn messaging app. Paul is unable to read long messages for some reason, I have checked and I cannot replicate the problem.

Does anyone else have this issue?

Other links

The Mr LinkedIn YouTube channel

Direct download: LinkedInformed2089.mp3
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Sat, 7 November 2015

Episode 88. Who owns your Linkedin profile?

News

Tinder versus LinkedIn profile pictures
Hillary Clinton and her views on LinkedIn in the past
Ladbrokes are using LinkedIn to find customers
LinkedIn has a new head of Europe
Legal problem of Linkedin on who owns your profile
LinkedIn overhauled its strategy for Sales Navigator
LinkedIn China’s new professional networking app Red Rabbit

Direct download: LinkedInformed2088.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:30am UTC