Dean DeLisle is the founder and CEO of Forward Progress, which provides social media training and coaching. The document outlines a 5-step process for building an effective LinkedIn profile: 1) understand social networks, 2) adjust privacy settings, 3) optimize your profile, 4) get peer reviews, and 5) measure results. It also discusses best practices for each step, such as completing your profile, using relevant keywords, and tracking connections, engagement, and outcomes. The overall message is providing guidance to leverage LinkedIn effectively for business purposes.
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Dean DeLisle
• Founder and CEO of Forward Progress, Inc.
• Train and Coach over 2,000 people per month
• Trained and Coached over 100,000 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
• Clients have included: Financial Services, Real Estate, Professional
Services, Legal, Accounting Manufacturing, Telecommunications,
Technical, Insurance, Agencies, Auto, Retail, Banking, Educational , and
Channel Sales…
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2015 LinkedIn Stats - Growing
• LinkedIn Has Over 350 Million Members
• Average user has 240 “Connections”
• One degree from over 35,000 “Trusted Connections”
• Two degrees from over 3,200,000 “Trusted Connections”
• 160 Million unique visitors a month
• 1 million new members added per week
• 17.8 million members belong to groups
• 1.2 million comments and posts to groups weekly
• 2 billion people searches annually
• 2 million companies have a company page
OVER 1,000 to 1
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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 in which you are an expert.
2. What terms would someone use to find
you.