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How Does LinkedIn Work? Denver Small Business Educational Class

LinkedIn 2: Successfully Marketing Your Business

You've created a great LinkedIn profile. But just how does LinkedIn work for you? LinkedIn is the premier social media networking platform perfect for businesses. In this intermediate to advanced workshop, you'll learn how to market yourself or your business the "social media" way. Learn how to grow your network and add connections easily, find opportunities, target companies and be known as an expert in your field!

Get networking tips and join the right groups to pump up your social media marketing efforts. Also learn how to find content to look like the expert you are in your business or field. To fully participate in this class, you should have a profile set up on LinkedIn.

Class #3350AA9 is at Colorado Free University on Tuesday, July 13, from 6 to 8pm located at Lowry in Denver, CO. Register at Colorado Free University or call 303.399.0093. $46 for non-members plus $5 material fee.

Colorado Free University, 7653 E. 1st Place, Denver, CO 80230.

Create Your Social Media Marketing Plan

Is your "guilt" about now being online as much as you think you ought to be in order to market your business online getting making you feel bad? We all have the best intention of sticking to some type of social media marketing effort. As small business owners, it is hard to do it all. This past Saturday I taught a short class on creating a social media marketing plan for small businesses.

In summary, it's better to just pick a few things to do but do it consistently. If you haven't started, it's not too late. Think about what will work for you. What do you like to do? Just because Twitter, Linkedin and Facebook are big, is it the best place for you to be? Could there be a smaller social network that might work for you instead?

Here is the PowerPoint presentation. I also have an e-book you can download to start your plan.

Create Your Social Media Marketing Plan

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Beyond the Basics of LinkedIn: Advanced Business Marketing Denver Workshop

You've created a great LinkedIn profile. But just how does LinkedIn work for you? LinkedIn is the premier social media networking platform perfect for businesses. In this intermediate to advanced workshop, you'll learn how to market yourself or your business the "social media" way. Learn how to grow your network and add connections the easy way, find opportunities, target companies and be known as an expert in your field! Get networking tips and join the right groups to pump up your social media marketing efforts. Also learn how to find content to look like the expert you are in your business or field.

Class is at Colorado Free University, 7653 E. 1st Place, Denver, CO 80230 on Saturday, May 8th from 9 to 11am. Register at: http://bit.ly/LinkedInMay8 or call 303.399.0093. 

About me: Owner of www.YourMarketingGal.com, I'm a certified Inbound Marketing Consultant. I help small businesses grow by developing and implementing strategic internet marketing plans. My services include social media marketing, social networking, blog creation, blogging, keyword selection, local search, search engine optimization & video marketing. I believe in giving entrepreneurs the tools to empower their own marketing efforts. 

Social Media 101 Workshop in Denver

You've heard of social media, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, etc., but don't fully understand how you should be using it to help your business. Learn the basics of building your online brand and how to market yourself the right way so that clients will find you. You can bet your competitors and customers are on social media, you should be too.

Class is from 10:30 to 11:15am and it part of an all day Entrepreneur Fair at Colorado Free University, 7653 E. 1st Place, Denver, CO 80230. More info and to register for this event #8941B, go to http://bit.ly/CFUFair or call 303.399.0093.

About me: Owner of www.YourMarketingGal.com, I'm a certified Inbound Marketing Consultant. I help small businesses grow by developing and implementing strategic internet marketing plans. My services include social media marketing, social networking, blog creation, blogging, keyword selection, local search, search engine optimization & video marketing. I believe in giving entrepreneurs the tools to empower their own marketing efforts. 

LinkedIn Marketing Techniques for Small Business

Again, another great group of students at Colorado Free University. Here is the LinkedIn presentation summarized on this PowerPoint. Each received a detailed booklet on information to jump start their marketing and really figure out ways to strategically increase their online marketing and get results. Social networking is all about providing helpful information and not spamming your connections. 

LinkedIn Marketing Techniques for Small Business

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LinkedIn Business Basics: Create a Great Profile

This is the presentation for my students at Colorado Free University. I went item by item through all the LinkedIn headers plus challenged them to create their LinkedIn profile by a certain date. If you've been putting off completing your profile, you can download a PDF file and take the LinkedIn 100% complete profile challenge: Download Challenge to LinkedIn.

LinkedIn Profile Basics

LinkedIn 101 Rotary Club in Denver

Last night I had the pleasure or presenting a brief introduction to LinkedIn to a group of Rotary members. Debra Fine, author of the bestselling book The Fine Art of Small Talk, asked me to present to the members of her chapter at their informal gathering. After watching a video on her website, I see that social media is actually not so different from her suggestions on how to engage people through small talk. Through LinkedIn and all social networks, it's  all about having a conversation with your connections, friends or followers. Her advice: show that you are listening - also great for social media.

Thanks so much, Rotary members, for having me at your meeting. Oh and my brother will be so proud that I spoke to you as he has been a member with perfect attendance of the Rotary Club in Laredo, Texas for almost 30 years. 

Why You Should Be On LinkedIn

I do love LInkedIn. You can list events. You can assume (without the makes an ____ out of you and me) the heavy hitters, influencers have LinkedIn profiles. Here's a great Article about LinkedIn. Let me know what you think.

LinkedIn: the secret to the online business network's success

With 50 million members, including Richard Branson and Alan Sugar, LinkedIn's success story quietly rivals that of Facebook

 

By Andrew Keen is @ajkeen on Twitter
Published: 12:05PM BST 22 Oct 2009

In spite of its clunky interface, credible business people can no longer afford to avoid LinkedIn.For all the continual media frenzy over Facebook and Twitter, the most remarkable social networking story of all may well be LinkedIn, the global social network for business professionals founded by serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur Reid Hoffman in December 2002.

Last week, a bullish LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner announced its 50 millionth member, stressing that while it took sixteen months for the social network to get its first million members, the most recent million only took 12 days. While the LinkedIn 50 million may pale in comparison with the Facebook 300 million army, its achievement is quite remarkable when one considers that there are only around 360 million white collar professional people in the entire world (at least according to the latest International Department of Labor numbers).

So over 10% of the world’s professionals are already on LinkedIn. And with the social network now signing up a new member every second of every hour of every day, it shouldn’t be too long before the other 90% of the world’s business professionals eventually wind up in the LinkedIn universe.

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via www.telegraph.co.uk