It is pretty common knowledge that LinkedIn is an extremely effective social media channel for professional connections and interactions. The question is not about LinkedIn itself. The question is about which people who have invited you to connect with them are the right people for you.
We all need money to buy bread, to pay the mortgage and to pay our taxes. Money is definitely important. However focusing on making money can often be counter-productive; it is better to focus on the conditions needed to make money than the money itself.
Having loyal brand fans is sort of like your being Mick Jagger and being followed around by groupies. Anytime a star exists, that person will be accompanied by fans. In fact, without the fans, the star will not be in the coveted position that he or she is in.
Whether you know it or not, social proof is an extraordinarily important part of your business’s success. It is what cements your business with your clients and prospective clients. It is what affirms that you are who you say you are professionally and that you are capable of doing what you say you can do.
In business and in life, before you can be a good “anything else,” you must be a good human being. You must speak kindly, help other people and you must try to tell the truth to the best of your ability.
Since its inception, Twitter has been a little mysterious to a lot of people online. Part of its mystique is the 140-character each tweet allows. Any more than that number and your tweet will be truncated. You need to learn to be brief.
You have really established your business and your products and/or services are top notch and well developed. You aren’t the only person who understands how well you are doing. Other people seem to have a good sense of your capabilities as well. Whether you own a product- or service-based business, requests for freebies can be a touchy subject.
Different business people have different opinions when it comes to organic versus paid lists of online followers. Some people feel that they want to earn their followers without any money involved and others want to have control and are willing to spend money.
All things Twitter is upon us. You can do a simple search on Google and pull up a huge number of entries on Twitter or you can go to one of your favorite blogs and search for Twitter posts to reveal numerous articles. There is definitely a fascination with micromedia and this particular network. I must be fascinated too, as I seem to be using it as one of my main sources of communication these days. Will another type of network launch and fascinate me…sure, but for now, I think there’s a lot of opportunity for relationship building on Twitter.
Now is the time to plan for the future. You need to make sure that you have a strategy in place so that you don’t have a gap in your work and in your progress going forward.