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Key quotes:

  • "In this post, I’ll walk you through the secret formula to writing an irresistible LinkedIn connection request."
  • "(Even if you’ve used this feature once or twice before, you may discover a surprising number of new contacts you haven’t yet connected to.) After you go through this process, LinkedIn will let you select from dozens or maybe even hundreds of people you know but haven’t yet connected to."
  • "Will some people you know accept the basic LinkedIn message? But you want to write an irresistible LinkedIn connection for people you know, but maybe don’t know as well as others."
  • "Look, networking means reaching out to people you don’t yet know."
  • "My connection request formula, which I’ll share in just a bit, will definitely help you connect with the people you want to know."
  • "If people send you connection requests, then it’s up to you whether to accept or decline, and you don’t have to worry about being marked as spam."
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Transcript: Hey it's Kevin Romo I want to show you how you can look at other people's profiles and see their entire network if they have it enabled in their LinkedIn profile most people don't know how to turn this off so you can go to major thought leaders and look at their profile and then see who they're connected with then you scan through so let me show you an example today we were looking at Patricia Fripp and the person's profile we're logged in as we could see all of her connections because there are second-level connections but I'm a first-level connection with Patricia so I can just go right over here and see her connections so if you don't want people to see your connections you can change this in your settings and I'll do another video to show you exactly how to do that but here say I want to keep Alan Carl would be somebody I'd wanna connect with if there's a reason I'm connect with a lot of speakers authors and coaches so we probably would want to connect with him so here I would personalize an invitation add a custom note here and say... See more →

Key quotes:

  • "In today’s world of social media frenzy, one cannot undermine the importance of how a profile should view on social and professional media sites."
  • "It is imperative to draft a balanced profile to get viewed and connected with the right recruiters and HR professionals."
  • "This way, your name will show up in searches giving you a greater chance that recruiters view your profile."
  • "Researchers say that including a photograph improves the chances of a profile getting viewed by almost 11-fold."
  • "In such a scenario, negligence on your end in updating your profile will reflect negatively, and chances are that the recruiters may see it as a sign of lethargy."
  • "A detailed summary that includes key information should work just right."
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Transcript: This is to clean and today we're going to talk about how to get 500 connections on LinkedIn a lot of people they want to know how to get five mil connections because what happens on LinkedIn is if you get like any number between like zero and 500 the LinkedIn profile will actually show 13 connections hundred and twenty-one connections and for some reason people feel insecure about having less than 500 because if you have 500 a thousand or 10,000 we're just a show 500 plus a so long as people want to get 500 people and I'm gonna show you a couple of ways how you can do that one of the key things if your profile is in default mode your profile will set the default connection on your profile to connect so that's the big blue button on your LinkedIn profile if you have changed it to a follow button I'm gonna put a link below in the comments or descriptions you can check how to make this happen if it was set to follow as a default you might want to check this back to connect so you get more people to connect with... See more →

Key quotes:

  • "Having a great LinkedIn profile helps you attract recruiters’ attention when they’re looking for new talent to join their company’s teams."
  • "When you change your profile picture visibility to public, you make yourself easier to be found (and trusted!) by those who look for you via search engines or other networks."
  • "LinkedIn isn’t necessarily the best place to add articles from the point of view of search visibility, but having articles is a good way to increase your professional credibility and improve your thought leadership position, as well as explain your professional viewpoints."
  • "Writing an article and publishing it in your personal profile at the right time can help you develop and maintain thought leadership position in niche topics."
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Transcript: Today we're gonna talk about how to get noticedon LinkedIn. Loads of stuff to go through, 'cause it'sa complicated system, but I promise you, by the end of this little session, you are gonnaknow how to get noticed, you are gonna know what you need to do, all the steps you needto take, you're gonna learn about some myths, some things you've probably been told, thatdon't make any sense, or certainly aren't working for you. And I'm also gonna talk with you, and putsome things in perspective about how what I'm gonna share today, is actually gonna giveyou three times as much of a chance of finding your next job, than actually all the resumesubmissions you've been doing into the applicant tracking systems. Alright, let's talk about LinkedIn. LinkedIn is one complicated system, it reallyis. I don't know about you, the folks that I coachin the milewalk Academy seem to be as confused as the other 500 million people on the site,and with good reason. They are constantly going through changes,they're changing the things that they offer, they're changing the things that you can do,they're changing the way people are finding you, how you're getting connected. All that good stuff.... See more →

Key quotes:

  • "Truth time: I’ve spent more hours than I care to admit on improving my Linkedin profile page — and so have you."
  • "I’d get a few clients here and there, but Linkedin was a far cry from my top resource for getting quality leads."
  • "(Which isn’t where you’re likely to find the full truth, but it’s way more entertaining!) I watched several so-called Linkedin gurus talk about lead generation, but it was all common sense stuff."
  • "I currently have over 3,500 connections (I might even actually know a third of them!) At one time, I worked for an educational organization that had over 3,000 members on Linkedin, and I was consistently the most-viewed profile for that group."
  • "So here’s what happened after seven days of using Linkedin the Vilaseca way: I got 3 premium clients in just one week."
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Key quotes:

  • "You need to include relevant keywords for search results on your LinkedIn profile for public access."
  • "So, take note of these important changes you need to add to your public profile then log unto your private profile and then add them as well as update other information about your skills and summary page."
  • "Usually, recommendations help to boost your profile on LinkedIn so it’s important to know how to manage recommendations LinkedIn."
  • "It is a written comment by another LinkedIn member to acknowledge a connection and give more credence to your skills, experiences or works."
  • "Skill endorsement makes it more likely someone would locate you based on the skill you receive endorsement for thereby helping to increase your visibility and online presence."
  • "The use of professional makeover or editing involves seeking help to package and present ones LinkedIn profile to become a professional LinkedIn profile with the sole aim of increasing one’s visibility and connections which should invariably position the individual for employers or prospective business partners to locate easily."
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Transcript: If you're looking for ways to optimize your professional LinkedIn profile so that you can rank better on linkedin's Native search then you've come to the right video Hey, what's up you guys Welcome back to market and hustle where we simplify Marketing so that you can grow your digital influence and your business now in this video I want to share with you a few simple things that you can start to do today to increase the performance of your LinkedIn profile so that more recruiters can find you and Reach out if you're watching. I'm assuming that you've already created a profile and have information on it such as previous jobs including descriptions of what you did there a summary about yourself and maybe a few reviews from previous co-workers or Supervisors with that said let's jump into it The first tip I will share with you and I really hope you're already doing this is to turn on career interests Which is a feature that will allow recruiters to find you in their searches now This is completely anonymous and your current employer will have no public access to this So do you do not need to... See more →

Transcript: Hi and welcome to the first monthly Wednesday webinar of 2016 my name is Johnny camel and this month we're gonna be talking about smart search and tactics to reduced waste in recruitment we're really excited to preview some new tools are releasing tomorrow on January 6th and really excited to share some of these with you guys our January 7th I want to just cover why we build these tools and what problems are trying to solve and that is particularly around waste in our recruiting and sourcing processes certainly going through this for next 2025 minutes really interested to hear your thoughts and opinions and comments you can tweet along using the hashtag social talent if you're watching a recording of this on YouTube or elsewhere don't worry we'll also respond to your tweets and dump in that hashtag tell us what you think ask your questions more than happy to to come at you with any suggestions we can so let's get into it so I want to talk to you about some research we recently conducted we're gonna be giving you the full lowdown on this research next month in our webinar and our February 2016... See more →

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