Tips To Make Your LinkedIn Profile Work For You

With the increasing number of listed users, LinkedIn is becoming one of the biggest social media platforms for small businesses to foster customer relationship, nurture new business ventures, build a reputation and enhance brand visibility. One question that usually arises in the mind of LinkedIn users is that: Is it enough to solely have a profile or there is something more I can do with the help of LinkedIn? About 90% of recruiters from very well known companies search for eligible candidates to fill in their job vacancies. More than that, an enormous percentage of B2B companies use this stage to find new customers. This is why it is important to get a good pro. rank for LinkedIn users. Rewrite LinkedIn profile can surely help you to obtain higher pro.level. Below we discuss few tips that can surely help to soar your profile views in no time.

Update your profile: The first thing is to keep your profile updated by rewriting your LinkedIn profile. From period to period it is important to post something interesting and new in your profile so that the LinkedIn contacts get attracted and view your profile for new thought process, interests, position, assignment and location. The profile can also be updated by posting things like special dates, days and events. If you do not have something interesting to post, you can simply publish your pro. by deleting some information. Then add back the deleted material and publish your pro. again. New details can also be added by adding a comma or a full stop. All of these ways succeed for a prof.update. It is important to rephrase or revise something everyday for your profile to build new connections and increase the number of customers to visit your profile on LinkedIn.

Remove better ranking connections: One tweak way to get excellent LinkedIn prof. is by deleting or removing those whose profile ranking stand higher than yours. By doing this, the profile views become higher on LinkedIn.

Participate in groups: One way to build strong connections is by participating in groups that interest you. You should strive to be the top contributor in the discussion that takes place in groups. You can also join homogenous groups where you can connect and share with people that share the same interest as yours. Or choose heterogeneous group where members have conflicting interests. The most satisfactory type of groups you should choose, are the ones that have the biggest number of members and those that let members post strong discussions.

By doing such LinkedIn profile optimization techniques you can optimize your pro.and progress in your career.

Joy Dsouza serves as LinkedIn instructor and loves to write about the importance of LinkedIn profile optimization .

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Professor Janek Ratnatunga is CEO of the Institute of Certified Management Accountants. He has held appointments at the University of Melbourne, Monash University and the Australian National University in Australia; and the Universities of Washington, Richmond and Rhode Island in the USA. Prior to his academic career he worked with KPMG.