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Page 1: Top 10 Strategies for Marketing Your Business on LinkedIn

The Top 10 Strategies For Marketing

Your Business On

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Agenda:

Why you need to pay attention to LinkedIn

How to use LinkedIn to grow your business

Key Takeaways and audience questions

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Why you need to be paying attention to LinkedIn

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Why you need to be paying attention to LinkedIn

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Why you need to be paying attention to LinkedIn

Professional Image

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Openness to create professional contacts/new

relationships

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Online Visibility/Website Traffic

In search (Google) LinkedIn has authority

Piggyback on LinkedIn’s email updates

Why you need to be paying attention to LinkedIn

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The Top

Strategies www.losangeleswebstrategies.com

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Get A Company Page On LinkedIn

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How are company pages different from personal

profiles?

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How are company pages different from personal

profiles?

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What is a company page:

1Site Navigation

2Site Image

3Company Posts

4

Friends & Colleagues

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Why do you need one? Tell your company’s story

Highlight your products and servicesEngage with followers

Share career opportunities

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Make Sure Your Profiles are Complete & Optimized

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Make sure your personal profile is complete!

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Tips for optimizing your profileStrong headline

Professional picture

Publish content of your own

Use keywords you want to identify with

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Connect with as many people as possible

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Post Regular Updates

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Benefits of posting regularlyAppear in LinkedIn Network UpdatesStay top of mind

Position as a source of good info

Others take notice and connect

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Post regular updates

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Post regular updates

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What kind of content to share?Articles you’ve written

Company news

Industry news

Events, meetings, webinars, etc.

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Tips for updatingAdd the LinkedIn share button to browserPublish on your website, then shareInclude a catchy image

Include keywords

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Make LOTS Of Connections

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It’s a SOCIAL Network!

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It’s a SOCIAL Network!

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Tips for adding connectionsMake it a daily routine

Collect business cards from everyoneConnect with everyone you’ve worked withHave all employees build LinkedIn profiles and connect

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Accept all connection invites

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Promote Your Page

With Your OtherWeb Properties

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Post your page URL on your:Website

Blog

Business Card

Email Signature

Other Social Networks

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Get Recommendations From Happy

Customers/Vendors/Employees

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Company/product recommendations

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Personal recommendations

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Tips for getting recommendationsDo great work!

Don’t force it

Recommend others

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Build great products!

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Advertise

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Benefits

Simple and fast

Great targeting

Huge exposure to otherwise hard to reach people

Affordable

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Where?

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Examples

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Targeting

Title

Company

Location

Groups

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Advertising Strategies

Always split-test your ads

Get really targeted

Test totally different images

Test different ad formats (video!)

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Participate In Groups

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Why groups?

Collections of people by interest, industry, etc.

Great place to make connections

Great place to find your target audience

Demonstrate your expertise

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Group tips

Connect with the people in the groupAnswer questions

Start thoughtful discussions

Don’t spam!

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Create Your Own Group

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Benefits

Show your expertise

Demonstrate leadership

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Control over conversation

Message your group members

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Your name is important!

Create a group for the audience you are

targeting

Design the group logo to fit.

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Use IntroductionsAnd InMail To

Reach Out To People

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InMail

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Introductions

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Key Takeaways

Key Takeaways

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Case Study: James Filbird

Case Study

• Built $5 million business through efforts on LinkedIn

• Completed profile• Joined 50 groups• One hour weekly

participating in groups• Sent connections to

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LinkedIn is an easy and cost effective way to…

Expand your reach

Brand yourself and your company

Engage your prospects and customers

Network with key influencers in your industry

Summary

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Be STRATEGICin your use of

LinkedIn and you’ll have GREAT results!

Summary

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Questions?QUESTIONS?

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We’d love to help.

• Just get in touch!

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(213) 607-9100