e-commerce & social media

I have to be honest here, setting up and optimizing a LinkedIn profile takes time. This is not going to be a "Clean Up Your LinkedIn Profile In 5 Minutes" kind of post. So while it will only take a few minutes for you and I to run through these suggestions, be prepared to spend a considerably greater amount of time actually implementing some of them. Fortunately, once done, you can relax, have a glass of wine, and just pop back into your profile every few weeks or months to make a couple updates.

Before we jump into these recommendations, let me make one more point perfectly clear. These are not necessarily recommendations for the perfect LinkedIn profile if you're looking for a job. I am writing this from my own perspective, as someone who is using their LinkedIn profile to connect with influencers, partners or prospects. I already have a business and I am counting on LinkedIn to help me grow that business and reach more of their nearly 200 million active monthly users....

Via Jeff Domansky

It’s a fantastic opportunity for content marketers, and any other publisher looking to put their content in front of a highly engaged audience. Every day, millions of people, from CEOs to new graduates, browse LinkedIn for the latest news in their field or industry. LinkedIn posts are an ideal way to draw attention to an event or service, direct people to a landing page, or simply to build online profile.With all this in mind, we dug into our social data to find out more about the nature of sharing on the site. Here’s what we found from analysing six months worth of LinkedIn storiesavailable to us from Spike....

Via Jeff Domansky