Communication & Listening
There are lots of ways to communicate with others on LinkedIn and I will cover them all but the overriding principle of effective communication is that it needs to be a two-way process.
The LinkedIn Jobs Scandal!
At a time when there is an unprecedented number of job seekers on LinkedIn, the potential for fraud via fake jobs is greater than ever. It is an absolute scandal that LinkedIn allow anyone to post a job under the name of any company on LinkedIn. That’s the main subject of this episode but before […]
The Delights & Downsides of Direct Messaging
Welcome to the second episode of the year. I’ve been seeing some great results on LinkedIn through direct messages (DM’s) recently and yet 12 months ago, I was recommending people only send them with people they already know well. So what has changed? More of that later but as usual I will start with… Interesting […]
LinkedIn Video – What’s Holding You Back?
Welcome to a new episode of the podcast. After a very busy week, I’m relieved to get a day in the office and it feels great to be back in front of my microphone! A couple of weeks ago I had a very interesting conversation with an experienced LinkedIn user about native video posts. They post […]
Does Content Marketing Still Work?
Welcome to episode 205, this week I’m joined by Robert Indries to discuss content marketing on LinkedIn. But first… Interesting Stuff I Saw This Week The ‘Find nearby’ feature on the mobile app actually works very well (once you have asked others to switch it on) as I found when I experimented with it […]
We Are The Test Dummies!
Welcome to episode 197, I’m back and it’s just me this week. Someone alerted me to a shocking issue regarding invitations to connect this week and it got me thinking about the ineffective way that LinkedIn introduce new features. It seems that they introduce features on a slow roll-out and rely on their users […]
Angry Donald!
Welcome to episode 158, it’s been a very ‘buggy’ LinkedIn week this week, firstly connections were in reverse order in the ‘My network’ list then the ability to recommend someone disappeared. Both are now fixed but it is clear that something is going on behind the scenes. I thought I would lighten things up a […]
Episode 26. Q2 Results and much more
Show Notes LinkedIn delivers encouraging Q2 financial results 313 million members 84m unique visitors 25bn page views (down 1bn from 1st qtr) $534m revenue – 47% year on year increase Talent Solutions makes up $322m of this – 49% increase Marketing $106m – 44% increase Premium Accounts – $105m – 44% increase See full report […]