Linked in beginner class one - how to build and optimize your profile for business 2013
1. Session One
How to Build and
Optimize Your LinkedIn
Account for New
Business
#fpwebinar
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2. Using LinkedIn for New Business Development
Dean DeLisle
• Founder and CEO of Forward Progress, Inc.
• Train and Coach over 2,000 people a month
• Trained and Coached over 60,000 in Social Network Skills
• Over 30 years in Business Coaching, Consulting and Training
• Call Center, Internet, eMarketing, Event Management,
• Lead Generation, Web Seminars, eLearning, eSelling
• Over Two Billion Dollars Sales, over 100 Million Leads, Helped
Thousands of People using Internet Based Lead
• Financial Services, Real Estate, Professional Services, Legal, Accounting,
Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Technical, Insurance, Agencies,
Auto, Retail, Banking, Educational and Channel Sales…..
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3. Game Plan
Road Map to Success
• Today – How to Build and Optimize Your LinkedIn
• Next Thursday – LinkedIn Beginner Session Two - Building
Connections and Getting Found & Getting Referrals
• Next Tuesday – Social Jack – Network Building Class
• Next Wednesday – Open Group Coaching
ALL ARE AT
NOON CENTRAL
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4. Game Plan - Today
Road Map to Success
• Build an optimized account
• Maintain optimal account settings
• Manage options to add new target contacts
• Change your settings for Google search
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6. Social Network Efforts
Why do they not
work for
organizations?
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7. Social Networks You Already
Know
• You!
• Bridgeview Bank
• BBM
• Chambers
• Industry Clubs
• Organization
• Charities
• Religious
• Country Clubs
• Network Groups
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8. Social Networks You Already
Know
• You!
• Bridgeview Bank
• BBM
• Chambers
• Industry Clubs
• Organization
• Charities
• Religious
• Country Clubs
• Network Groups
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9. How Many Contacts and eMails
Do YOU Have?
• That Know YOU?
Stop Thinking
• That Trust YOU? One
• That have done Business with YOU? Dimensional!
• That would recommend YOU?
Dean Sue Pat Mark
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10. 2013 LinkedIn Stats - Growing
• LinkedIn Has Over 200 Million Members
• Average user has 240 “Connections”
• One degree from over 35,000 “Trusted Connections”
• Two degrees from over 3,200,000 “Trusted Connections”
• 1 million new members a week
• 17.8 million members belong to groups
• 1.2 million comments and posts to groups weekly
• 2 billion people searches annually
• 1 million companies have a company page
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11. Network Science
Node: Individual
Link: Connection between two nodes
Cluster: Several linked nodes
Hub: Large cluster, several clusters
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13. Network Science – Best Relationships
List Top 5
People
List Top
10 People
List Top
25 People
1. What % of your business Volume do you get from the Top 5?
2. What % of your business volume do you get from the Next
Level?
3. What % of your business volume do you get from the outer
layer?
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15. Your Personal Keywords
What are you an expert in?
How would your ideal prospect find you?
What would they “yell” or “Google” to find you?
What makes you different?
What is your skill set?
Refinance Lake County
Home Equity Home Lending
Mortgage Rates FHA Mortgage
Chicagoland VA Loans
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16. Sample Mortgage - Keywords
HIGH Home Financing Illinois Lenders
Mortgage Rate Home Lending IL Real Estate
Mortgage Rates IL Mortgage
A Mortgage FHA LOAN
Lenders FHA loan Chicago Mortgage Rate
Mortgages FHA Chicago Mortgage Lenders
Mortgage Loan FHA Mortgage Chicago Mortgage
Mortgage Loans FHA Loans Chicago Loans
Refinancing VA Loan Chicago Loan
Lenders for Home Loans VA Loans Chicago Lenders
FHA Lending Chicago Home Loan
MEDIUM FHA Lenders Bridgeview Bank
Mortgage Bridgeview Bank Mortgage
Home Loan LOCAL BASED MyBBMC
Home Loans Illinois Mortgage
Home Mortgage Illinois Loans
House Mortgage Illinois Loan
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17. Your Personal Keywords
What are you an expert in?
How would your ideal prospect find you?
What would they “yell” or “Google” to find you?
What makes you different?
What is your skill set?
Exercise:
1. Write 10 things you are an expert in
2. What terms would someone use to find you
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18. Bring out your
worksheets now…
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21. Turn off Updates Broadcast
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22. Turn off Activity Broadcasts
Change to “ ” for this
session only. Remember to
change back to “√” after
class. Click “Save Changes”
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23. Optimal Settings
LIVE
DEMO
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24. Get Found
Your Personal Business Keywords
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25. Your Business Keywords
What are you an expert in, products or services?
How would your ideal prospect find you?
What would they “yell” or “Google” to find you?
What makes you different?
What is your skill set?
Exercise:
1. Write 10 top things you are an expert in
2. What terms would someone use to find you
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26. Your Personal Keywords
GENERAL Home Lending IL Real Estate
Mortgage Rate IL Mortgage
Mortgage Rates FHA LOAN
A Mortgage FHA loan Chicago Mortgage Rate
Lenders FHA Chicago Mortgage Lenders
Mortgages FHA Mortgage Chicago Mortgage
Mortgage Loan FHA Loans Chicago Lenders
Mortgage Loans VA Loan Chicago Home Loans
Refinancing VA Loans Bridgeview Bank
Lenders for Home Loans FHA Lending Bridgeview Bank Mortgage
Mortgage FHA Lenders MyBBMC
Home Loans
Home Mortgage LOCAL BASED
YOUR NAME!!!
House Mortgage Illinois Mortgage
Home Financing Illinois Lenders Suburb’s
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29. Profile Changes
Complete Profile
Be Clear
What will you do for others?
Why & How?
What do you wantneed?
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37. More New Items
LOOK
VIDEO
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38. #1 Lets Make Sure – Look Good
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39. Profile Tune Up
What are
YOUR
Keywords?
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40. Profile Tune Up
Create Relevance!
1. Create your personal tagline
2. Appear focused
3. Put your elevator pitch to work
4. Point out your “RELEVANT” skills
5. Explain your experience
6. Distinguish yourself from the crowd
7. How will you help them?
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41. Peer Review – What is this?
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42. Improve Your Google Page Rank
Contact Settings
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43. Turn on Activity Broadcasts
Change to “ ” for this
session only. Remember to
change back to “√” after
class. Click “Save Changes”
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44. Next Steps
Book a meeting right now with your team!
Create a plan and make a system that works
Fix Your Profiles – ASAP
Remember your Keywords!
Search for yourself
Peer Review by next Thursday!
Be Active – Keep Moving!
Next Class – Thursday, April 25 – Noon Central
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45. Contact Us
Connect WITH Us!
dean@forwardprogress.net
TWITTER: www.twitter.com/deandelisle
FACEBOOK: www.Facebook.com/deandelisle/
FAN PAGE: www.Facebook.com/ForwardProgress
LINKEDIN: www.linkedin.com/in/deandelisle
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Notes de l'éditeur
I want to welcome everybody to session 1. Everybody has found the questions area of the GoToWebinar task bar.In our training, what we want to do is make sure you are learning, retaining and doing what we say to help you generate business.Session 1 is the fundamentals. All of you should have a basic account to get started, even if it’s a shell.Everything we’re going to show you is for the free version—that’s the good news. Paid subscribers will see some additional options.
Everyone on the call today is concerned with how to build a good, targeted network and find new business.Even though this is sales driven, if you’re a career mover. When you’re using the same strategies as sales. Call it recruiting or something else.All LinkedIn is about connecting your network and getting where you want to go.How to build your personal targets. That is our goal.
Everyone on the call today is concerned with how to build a good, targeted network and find new business.Even though this is sales driven, if you’re a career mover. When you’re using the same strategies as sales. Call it recruiting or something else.All LinkedIn is about connecting your network and getting where you want to go.How to build your personal targets. That is our goal.
We train Fortune 500 to sole proprietors. Regardless of size, the reason that some aren’t succeeding is the mindset.You are on this call because you are trying to learn what it’s all about. You have the right mindset. What you need to do is make sure you’re working within your organization to keep this top of mind.One company, during the 4 weeks we worked with them had 100 new appointments collectively. Top appointment setter had 17 in one week. Depends on your goal. Talk to team members, have a team conversation. Students that are succeeding are bringing this knowledge into their weekly meetings, measuring ROI, making investment in knowledge. Have the right mindset for generating business.
Even top networkers sometimes need reminders about his—integrate your efforts. All kinds of different groups. Top networkers are the “hub”
Even top networkers sometimes need reminders about his—integrate your efforts. All kinds of different groups. Top networkers are the “hub”
Most of you are adding people to your core network. On your screen you’ll see “Bob” and “Sue” and this is what typically happens.We meet people and we add them to our Blackberry or our contact management database and if we’re really good, we’ll put in some key elements of the relationship and maybe even determine what kind of business we’ll be able to do with them.The magic here is that if Sue is too busy or we’re not a fit for her right now, LinkedIn and other social networks make it easy for Sue to recommend us without working too hard.Think about the network hubs you have—you want to be top of mind with them. Also want to see the people that Sue is connected with so you can ask “Would you mind making an introduction to (specific name)—looks like an ideal connection.”The other day the Sue I was talking to said, “You know what, that person might not be a great fit, but I’ve got some others.” Unfortunately doesn’t always happen, want to be able to make a direct connection.What we’re seeing is that people are coming from 2 and 3 levels away. We’ve had it happen where someone from 3rd level and they read a blog post and really made an impact on them that led to a call to us.
Start with poll.
Take out a blank sheet of paper. What are you an expert in? Answer that.Some of you are real estate. Some of you are in manufacturing. Some of you sell legal services. All different flavors on the call today.What would your prospect search for in order to find you?HR departments also searching, works for career development as well.Next to the words, write what your prospect calls it. Make sure it’s not just industry jargon.When we get to the areas, we’ll show you where it’s important to use these.People are looking for experts every second of the day on LinkedIn.
Take out a blank sheet of paper. What are you an expert in? Answer that.Some of you are real estate. Some of you are in manufacturing. Some of you sell legal services. All different flavors on the call today.What would your prospect search for in order to find you?HR departments also searching, works for career development as well.Next to the words, write what your prospect calls it. Make sure it’s not just industry jargon.When we get to the areas, we’ll show you where it’s important to use these.People are looking for experts every second of the day on LinkedIn.
Take out a blank sheet of paper. What are you an expert in? Answer that.Some of you are real estate. Some of you are in manufacturing. Some of you sell legal services. All different flavors on the call today.What would your prospect search for in order to find you?HR departments also searching, works for career development as well.Next to the words, write what your prospect calls it. Make sure it’s not just industry jargon.When we get to the areas, we’ll show you where it’s important to use these.People are looking for experts every second of the day on LinkedIn.
Since we’re going to be doing lot of updates all at once, we want to turn off this option for now.Go to settings. Then go to Profile and Status updates, right column in the middle. It’s highlighted in the red box. Make a note to yourself. When your profile is ready, we want you to turn that back on. It’s temporary.
Set to “no” temporarily. We’ll give you a reminder, but holding you accountable. Write it down!
Since we’re going to be doing lot of updates all at once, we want to turn off this option for now.Go to settings. Then go to Profile and Status updates, right column in the middle. It’s highlighted in the red box. Make a note to yourself. When your profile is ready, we want you to turn that back on. It’s temporary.
Pair up!
Take out a blank sheet of paper. What are you an expert in? Answer that.Some of you are real estate. Some of you are in manufacturing. Some of you sell legal services. All different flavors on the call today.What would your prospect search for in order to find you?HR departments also searching, works for career development as well.Next to the words, write what your prospect calls it. Make sure it’s not just industry jargon.When we get to the areas, we’ll show you where it’s important to use these.People are looking for experts every second of the day on LinkedIn.
Use your key words. Summary is not a rehash of all of your past positions. It’s what’s relevant about what you offer today.Back it up in a Word Document.
Set to “no” temporarily. We’ll give you a reminder, but holding you accountable. Write it down!