Get Savvy with LinkedIn in Supporting Strategies Business Bootcamp 10-23-15

Editor's Notes

• #2: Opening/Welcome Welcome! Savvy Workshop is pleased to present LinkedIn for Business as we know that LinkedIn has proven to be a valuable tool for many of our clients who want to make there networking and sales efforts more effective. Introductions Speaker Bio Lisa Landry, Founder, Savvy WorkshopLisa Landry has been in the marketing industry for more than 25 years. As a seasoned marketing professional and business owner, she speaks regularly on topics of branding, content marketing strategy, and using event based marketing and social media to grow business. An early adopter of LinkedIn and other social media channels, she supports her clients (and her own business) in developing and implementing effective social media strategies. Lisa believes that the best customer is an educated customer and enjoys sharing her knowledge about the wonderful world of marketing and promotion with everyone who wants to be more Marketing-Savvy!   603-792-0080 lisa@savvyworkshop.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/llandry @savvyworkshop About Savvy Savvy Workshop develops multi-channel marketing campaigns and education-based marketing events that help clients reach their targets. They are experts at developing brand roadmaps, creative graphic design, crafting compelling messaging and producing impactful marketing collateral. They are experienced in social media strategy and implementation, special event production and tradeshow management. Digital services include the execution of high-impact websites, video content, e-mail marketing and online sales tools. www.savvyworkshop.com Let’s get LinkedIn Savvy!
• #3: Connect with the world's largest audience of active, influential professionals. You are an expert in your field, but do you know how to effectively promote yourself and sell your services? Whether you are an attorney, accountant, architect, or other professional, LinkedIn is a powerful tool you can use to create relationships, build your client base and reach the influencers who support your practice
• #4: Largest B2B network LinkedIn is a social networking site with >330 Million members LinkedIn operates the world’s largest professional network on the Internet in over 200 countries and territories. The company is publicly held and has a diversified business model with revenues coming from hiring solutions, marketing solutions and premium subscriptions.
• #5: Professional audience Connect with the world's largest audience of active, influential professionals.
• #6: About Us Welcome to LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network with more than 330 million members in over 200 countries and territories around the globe. Mission Our mission is simple: connect the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. When you join LinkedIn, you get access to people, jobs, news, updates, and insights that help you be great at what you do. Company Info LinkedIn started out in the living room of co-founder Reid Hoffman in 2002, and it officially launched on May 5, 2003. Jeff Weiner is the CEO, and the company's management team is made up of seasoned executives from companies like Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, TiVo, PayPal, and Electronic Arts. LinkedIn is publicly held and has a diversified business model with revenues coming from member subscriptions, advertising sales, and talent solutions. 
• #7: Largest B2B network LinkedIn is a social networking site with >330 Million members LinkedIn operates the world’s largest professional network on the Internet in over 200 countries and territories. The company is publicly held and has a diversified business model with revenues coming from hiring solutions, marketing solutions and premium subscriptions.
• #8: Networking with other professionals Fostering their professional identity Keep up with industry news *Business Intelligence
• #9: You can learn a lot from reading other conversations Wanting to target a certain demographic – find people, build your intelligence – who is still there? Who has left? If you are targeting a specific market segment you can get involved in groups that specialize in that market and learn their industry and their players.
• #10: First impression. Take a look at your profile. Do you have: A picture Are your skills and experience up-to-date? Is it what you want to be selling? Is there a way for someone to contact you? Consolidate your profiles if you have more than one.
• #11: This is an example of a good profile. People will be more likely to accept your invitations if you profile is professional The summary is an important section where you can tell your professional story: goals, objectives, background, interests and aspirations. If you don’t yet have a summary, you may add one:
• #12: This is an example of a good profile. People will be more likely to accept your invitations if you profile is professional The summary is an important section where you can tell your professional story: goals, objectives, background, interests and aspirations. If you don’t yet have a summary, you may add one:
• #13: It credentials you.
• #14: Include awards, board services, accreditations, lauguages spoken, etc.
• #15: The more skills and endorsements you have, the higher you will come up in searches for people with your experience.
• #16: Recommendations are easy to get and easy to give on LinkedIn – and also highly visible to anyone considering you for a project!
• #17: Ask for recommendations from past managers, colleagues you’ve collaborated and clients you’ve served.
• #18: An activity is any time you post something, share something, comment on something, join a group, connect, update your profile, basically everything you do on LinkedIn shows in your stream and its visible to your connections. The more people who “like” or comment on it it the higher it appears in the feed. You’ll make it into peoples’ email inbox.
• #19: Engaging within LinkedIn with some regularity is important. Decide how many times you’d like to post, whether it be once a day or once a week or even once every two weeks. Whatever you decide, do it consistently.
• #20: The Privacy & Settings or Sign out links can be found when you move your cursor over your profile picture in the top right of your homepage.
• #21: The more people you know the further your voice is going to reach.
• #22: Recommend using the “More ways to connect” For example if you go to a conference and you get email addresses from people reach out to them via this and connect.
• #23: Remind them how you met, tell them why you want to connect.
• #24: This is your “contact list” on LinkedIn. Becomes an address book that is accurate. You can filter this in a number of different ways… Classic challenge: when a person leaves a company and you lose track of him/her. LinkedIn is a great way to stay in contact with people throughout their career. Prepare – make connections - You should: Send an invitation to “connect” to every person in your professional contact list who is on LinkedIn. Give recommendations. Give Endorsements. Ask for recommendations from people you’ve had successful professional encounters with. Share marketing collateral. When OW produces a new white paper or case study etc. we “share it” with our networks on Linkedin. You should also. You can do this by simply clicking “share” or “like” beneath the post; thereby sharing it with your connections.
• #25: Filter by company,
• #26: Look up Retail, Chemicals, Medical Devices, Pharma, etc…. Huge tool for marketing intelligence. Need to have a network. Be generous with your accepting and offering invitations.
• #27: Build you network over time. Be timely. If you are at a conference, connect with those people as soon as you get back to the office.
• #28: You can purchase a business account that will allow you to send more InMails.
• #29: Import your connections into your CRM – most likely more up to date on LinkedIn. Follow them where they go.
• #30: I export my connections regularly. I measure how they’ve grown. Remember, its not the quantity of the connections, but the quality of the connections that is most important.
• #31: It is easy to remove a connection, should you decide you don’t want to be connected any longer. They will not be notified you disconnected, although they may notice…
• #32: You can build your network and stay on top of industry trends is to follow Companies, I follow companies I work for, I follow companies I want to work for, I follow companies that influence deals, I follow companies that are competitors.  By following companies, you will be able to find ways to connect with their leaders, decision makers and employees. It will also give you a great news feed that offers a pulse of what is going on (who’s merging, who’s hiring, who’s launching a new product, who’s been promoted, etc).  You can follow a company by looking up their name under “Companies” and simply click Follow. People will look up our company and this is the page they will see. People who follow our company share a common bond. These people may never visit our website, but this is another way for us to get in front of them as a company. If you don’t follow it already, please go follow the company. Invite people to follow the company on LinkedIn – expands our reach You may want to look at who our followers are and connect with them as a way to expand your network.
• #33: You can build your network and stay on top of industry trends is to follow Companies, I follow companies I work for, I follow companies I want to work for, I follow companies that influence deals, I follow companies that are competitors.  By following companies, you will be able to find ways to connect with their leaders, decision makers and employees. It will also give you a great news feed that offers a pulse of what is going on (who’s merging, who’s hiring, who’s launching a new product, who’s been promoted, etc).  You can follow a company by looking up their name under “Companies” and simply click Follow. People will look up our company and this is the page they will see. People who follow our company share a common bond. These people may never visit our website, but this is another way for us to get in front of them as a company. If you don’t follow it already, please go follow the company. Invite people to follow the company on LinkedIn – expands our reach You may want to look at who our followers are and connect with them as a way to expand your network.
• #34: Expand your network is to join Groups in your area of expertise and that service and support the industries you want to reach. In other words, get into the groups where potential clients and buyers are.  You can do this passively at to begin with – and just watch the traffic, conversations, monitor trends, who’s discussing what, who the players are.   As time goes on, you may see articles and news items that affect the industry. You can share that content in these groups and “get noticed” by the folks that might hired you – building awareness of you, your services and your brand.  You can also develop your own content (what you write for your blog) and then share it here. The ideas is to develop an ‘inbound’ marketing strategy that gets folks to come and visit your website and connect with your there.   Also, when you are watching traffic in groups, you will notice folks you want to be connected to. I believe with a basic LinkedIn account, you can invite a few of these folks a month -I need to look this up as it may have changed. ( I have a premium account which allows me to do more—which is  one benefit of paying for the premium account that I think makes it worth it. It is not necessary to pay for LinkedIn – but if you get very active here you may find value. There is a great deal you can do with a free “basic” account that will serve you well until you are ready to do more!)   Research contacts in your space or near your space and the topics that might interest you. Take a look and see if you think some of these would be good for you to join.   You can easily join and leave groups (look under Interests / Groups and then search for group under the name you would like to check out.  When you join a group, you can select how you want to get notified about discussions going on in that group. I like to have a “weekly digest email” sent to my email inbox. You can make other selections based on your preferences. I find the weekly thing helps me stay on top of what is what, without getting overwhelmed in email…   You also can find more groups that might interest you by looking at your connections’ profile pages and seeing who THEY follow. When you do it this way, you need only click on the group they follow and you’ll be able to go right to it and check it out.
• #35: Expand your network is to join Groups in your area of expertise and that service and support the industries you want to reach. In other words, get into the groups where potential clients and buyers are.  You can do this passively at to begin with – and just watch the traffic, conversations, monitor trends, who’s discussing what, who the players are.   As time goes on, you may see articles and news items that affect the industry. You can share that content in these groups and “get noticed” by the folks that might hired you – building awareness of you, your services and your brand.  You can also develop your own content (what you write for your blog) and then share it here. The ideas is to develop an ‘inbound’ marketing strategy that gets folks to come and visit your website and connect with your there.   Also, when you are watching traffic in groups, you will notice folks you want to be connected to. I believe with a basic LinkedIn account, you can invite a few of these folks a month -I need to look this up as it may have changed. ( I have a premium account which allows me to do more—which is  one benefit of paying for the premium account that I think makes it worth it. It is not necessary to pay for LinkedIn – but if you get very active here you may find value. There is a great deal you can do with a free “basic” account that will serve you well until you are ready to do more!)   Research contacts in your space or near your space and the topics that might interest you. Take a look and see if you think some of these would be good for you to join.   You can easily join and leave groups (look under Interests / Groups and then search for group under the name you would like to check out.  When you join a group, you can select how you want to get notified about discussions going on in that group. I like to have a “weekly digest email” sent to my email inbox. You can make other selections based on your preferences. I find the weekly thing helps me stay on top of what is what, without getting overwhelmed in email…   You also can find more groups that might interest you by looking at your connections’ profile pages and seeing who THEY follow. When you do it this way, you need only click on the group they follow and you’ll be able to go right to it and check it out.
• #36: Expand your network is to join Groups in your area of expertise and that service and support the industries you want to reach. In other words, get into the groups where potential clients and buyers are.  You can do this passively at to begin with – and just watch the traffic, conversations, monitor trends, who’s discussing what, who the players are.   As time goes on, you may see articles and news items that affect the industry. You can share that content in these groups and “get noticed” by the folks that might hired you – building awareness of you, your services and your brand.  You can also develop your own content (what you write for your blog) and then share it here. The ideas is to develop an ‘inbound’ marketing strategy that gets folks to come and visit your website and connect with your there.   Also, when you are watching traffic in groups, you will notice folks you want to be connected to. I believe with a basic LinkedIn account, you can invite a few of these folks a month -I need to look this up as it may have changed. ( I have a premium account which allows me to do more—which is  one benefit of paying for the premium account that I think makes it worth it. It is not necessary to pay for LinkedIn – but if you get very active here you may find value. There is a great deal you can do with a free “basic” account that will serve you well until you are ready to do more!)   Research contacts in your space or near your space and the topics that might interest you. Take a look and see if you think some of these would be good for you to join.   You can easily join and leave groups (look under Interests / Groups and then search for group under the name you would like to check out.  When you join a group, you can select how you want to get notified about discussions going on in that group. I like to have a “weekly digest email” sent to my email inbox. You can make other selections based on your preferences. I find the weekly thing helps me stay on top of what is what, without getting overwhelmed in email…   You also can find more groups that might interest you by looking at your connections’ profile pages and seeing who THEY follow. When you do it this way, you need only click on the group they follow and you’ll be able to go right to it and check it out.
• #37: Connect. It’s all about the conversation.
• #38: Many many more Expand your network is to join Groups in your area of expertise and that service and support the industries you want to reach. In other words, get into the groups where potential clients and buyers are.  You can do this passively at to begin with – and just watch the traffic, conversations, monitor trends, who’s discussing what, who the players are.   As time goes on, you may see articles and news items that affect the industry. You can share that content in these groups and “get noticed” by the folks that might hired you – building awareness of you, your services and your brand.  You can also develop your own content (what you write for your blog) and then share it here. The ideas is to develop an ‘inbound’ marketing strategy that gets folks to come and visit your website and connect with your there.   Also, when you are watching traffic in groups, you will notice folks you want to be connected to. I believe with a basic LinkedIn account, you can invite a few of these folks a month -I need to look this up as it may have changed. ( I have a premium account which allows me to do more—which is  one benefit of paying for the premium account that I think makes it worth it. It is not necessary to pay for LinkedIn – but if you get very active here you may find value. There is a great deal you can do with a free “basic” account that will serve you well until you are ready to do more!)   Research contacts in your space or near your space and the topics that might interest you. Take a look and see if you think some of these would be good for you to join.   You can easily join and leave groups (look under Interests / Groups and then search for group under the name you would like to check out.  When you join a group, you can select how you want to get notified about discussions going on in that group. I like to have a “weekly digest email” sent to my email inbox. You can make other selections based on your preferences. I find the weekly thing helps me stay on top of what is what, without getting overwhelmed in email…   You also can find more groups that might interest you by looking at your connections’ profile pages and seeing who THEY follow. When you do it this way, you need only click on the group they follow and you’ll be able to go right to it and check it out.
• #39: You can see who is talking. Follow the conversation. Business Intelligence/ interesting way to meet new people. Make comments and post to extend your voice and make them aware of you.
• #40: One great way to expand your voice and expand your network is to start a discussion. Say important things that are relevant to other’s industry. The more people who “like” or comment on it it the higher it appears in the feed. You’ll make it into peoples’ email inbox.
• #41: You can choose frequency of updates
• #42: Post a comment and put in a link to the website (in this example where they can read the course description and register). You can easily “share” the links that we put out there.
• #43: Sample industry / trade groups
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• #53: 6th degrees of separation. Get introduced to the people you need to know
• #54: Can go to the company and look at their recent updates and can see who I am already connect to and can ask for an introduction.
• #55: Look up a company, see who you know. If I really want to know someone at this company I can probably get introduced and get them to look at me and my company.
• #56: Being connected to people who are high up in HR can be valuable connections in terms of who they know in a company.
• #57: The ability to filter for the exact industry, title, region makes LinkedIn the BEST B2B marketing intelligence tool out there. You‘re not fishing with a net, you are fishing with a spear.
• #58: You can do a lot with a Free LinkedIn account
• #59: The premium accounts give you more visibility into the network, more filtering options, more Introductions and InMails.
• #60: LinkedIn offers additional packages, such as Sales Navigator and Recruiter, which is like LinkedIn on steroids.
• #61: Precision B2B targeting By job title and function By industry and company size By seniority
• #62: Ad formats Text and image ads Video ads Text only ads
• #63: A very cost effective and targeted way to get your message out.
• #64: Precision B2B targeting By Location
• #65: Precision B2B targeting By industry and company size By seniority
• #66: Set your own budget Pay by clicks or impressions Stop your ads at any time No long-term contracts No commitments
• #67: Example of campaign specifications
• #68: Test, Measure, Re-Test
• #69: Test, Measure, Re-Test
• #70: Test, Measure, Re-Test Set your own budget Pay by clicks or impressions Stop your ads at any time No long-term contracts No commitments
• #71: Sponsored Updates Raise brand awareness, build relationships, and drive quality leads with Sponsored Updates. Extend your reach to the LinkedIn feed across web, mobile, and tablet.
• #72: Quick results, for very little investment – and you can cancel a campaign at any time.
• #73: Follow influencers to get great content fed right into your newsfeed.
• #74: Share content that you like – offering you some good articles that have already been placed on LinkedIn for you
• #75: Always share from the source
• #76: Follow people you admire, people with good content that resonates with you
• #77: Protect your brand.
• #78: You can’t manage what you don’t measure.
• #79: How can I help you?
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• #81: Follow us on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/savvy-workshop