Secret LinkedIn Tips to help you “Level-UP” in 2021: This year has seen us move into digital transformation, literally, overnight! COVID brought the world to a standstill and we all took note of how we perform online!
As many are looking for new business and new careers, I want to share some LinkedIn tips (36 in total) for 2021 to help YOU to succeed. I usually only give this out in our training or coaching sessions (hence the secret) so an opportunity to learn!
If you are a professional business owner, entrepreneur, corporate or someone just looking for a new job in 2021, these tips will help you all!
1. Good, recent updated smiling photo that is “head and shoulders” so people can recognize you on their mobiles.
2. Add a branded banner to your profile. Tell more about what you do not of flowers or mountains!
3. You have 7 (even less now) seconds to impress or depress someone with your LinkedIn profile, choose wisely!
4. Customise your LinkedIn URL to only your name by taking out the numbers after.
5. Use ONLY your name in your LinkedIn name area. Placing MBA, PhD and others makes you less approachable.
6. Change your headline to what it is you do that adds value (MD of ABC doesn’t tell me what you do).
7. Every word is searchable on your profile, make sure you are found.
8. Use the SSI (Social Selling Score) Scoring in LinkedIn to measure your activity (www.linkedin.com/sales/ssi). What’s not measured, cannot be improved!
9. Make sure you link yourself back to the company pages as “grey buildings” don’t give you credibility.
10. Link yourself to your educational institutions as this is about credibility.
11. Add all 50 skills in your skills section as it’s searchable.
12. Make sure the first 3 lines of your summary grab someone’s attention as hardly anyone hits “see more”…
13. Keep your summary in the first person. It’s a PERSONAL professional profile, so make sure that you write it in that form.
14. It’s your PERSONAL professional profile, so add some personal information about your passions, values and more about your quirky self!
15. Make sure you are an “All Star”, in other words, complete your profile as this helps you to become more searchable.
16. Did you know, your Dashboard on your profile gives you information about Profile views, Post views and search results
17. Your dashboard “Profile View” number is a running number over the last 90 days
18. Your dashboard “Post / Article Views” is of your most recent post or article
19. Your dashboard “search appearances” is how many times your profile came up in the search over the last 7 days
20. Your search appearances on your dashboard can also show you the types of people who searched for you and what keywords they used to get to you.
21. Add additional content under your summary and work positions like white papers, brochures and other as this adds to your SSI scoring
22. Add a call to action in your summary and experience or even add your email address.
23. Make sure your contact information is updated and correct.
24. If you are in business, don’t use your Gmail address as your primary email. Add your company email, verify the email and make that primary. It’s about credibility!
25. Show that you care about your community by adding in your volunteer experience! (if you don’t have any experience, then volunteer!)
26. Add all your additional courses and certifications as this is searchable and adds credibility!
27. You want your profile to sell itself? Make sure you have recommendations on your profile, that are recent too!
28. Post articles you have read, telling people what it is you enjoyed in the article.
29. Show your skills by writing content and articles on your areas of expertise.
30. Get active by sharing other people’s posts and commenting and engaging. This improves your SSI score, which improves your search-ability! #truestory
31. Looking for a job, turn on “open to work” on your dashboard and let recruiters know (secretly) that you are in the market.
32. Connect using a connect note to stand out. Don’t be boring, personal the note.
33. Send a note after someone has reached out to connect with you. (But not spammy!)
34. Don’t sell, add value, contribute, engage and build relationships. People buy from People!
35. If you own your own business, create a company page as this builds credibility to link yourself back to this page.
36. Align your brands across all your platforms.
These tips really do help and you will see a massive spike in your profile views if you apply all of these! We have so many more tips!
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