In our LinkedIn training session on Friday we covered many different ways that businesses can use LinkedIn to further their goals and relationships with people to make powerful connections. By networking online with people, LinkedIn allows us to connect with so many people around the globe, that we should be able to find a connection to just about anyone, in any industry that we are looking for. A local business person I know looks for strategic connections on LinkedIn and sets five new (local) introduction appointments a week through the system. It’s not about setting an appointment to make a sale, but it is about setting an appointment to get to know someone new. By finding more out about each other, we are able to help everyone reach their dreams and goals.
Here’s a short video about LinkedIn:
I’d love to hear some of your linked in strategies, success stories and more. What have you found to be the best part of using the service? What are some creative ways that we can further connections with each other via LinkedIn?
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Sandi Maki, InSights Group – who has written 791 posts on InSights Group.
Bliss in a Bubble – In the moment – my favorite place to be. As a creative outlet, I enjoy ‘Heavy Breathing Just Before Midnight‘ – a series of podcasts on fun, interesting, and random topics that I share at sandimaki.com. At InSights Group – I mastermind, coach, consult, and use Organic Marketing to empower businesses tell their stories to the world to become more productive and profitable – especially in the online world. I am also a coach and take on personal clients to help empower positive changes and growth within their lives and businesses. I have experience in many areas of philosophy and psychology including face reading, personality studies and motivation, as well as many holistic modalities such as Reiki Master, and core-conscious transformation. With Legendary Escapes I’m a partner in a trio of swimming pool companies from construction to service to online sales – we are changing the industry – and the experience of customers across the country – based in Brighton, MI.
Kenji Fujita says:
I attended the Friday session and want to first of all thank the Insights Group for offering such a fantastic class. Having been in the corporate training world, I can say that a class of this caliber in the corporate world would go for a minimum of $200 a person. What I learned is exactly what I wanted to learn the way I wanted to learn it. Thank you.
I am a Management Consultant by trade. I work with companies to understand, fix and repair their business processes.
Now to share some of my insights that have come out of the class.
1. One of my competitor categories are the large consulting firms (IBM is one that most people recognize). It is almost impossible to compete against these corporate behemoths one on one. However, I could use LinkedIn to make connections at those large consulting firms, build the relationship, and be considered for contract work from those firms. So, instead of competing with them, I work for/with them on clients I cannot obtain alone.
2. Another idea is to link with other smaller consulting persons/firms and build a ‘consortia’ style network of business consultants. I can introduce my clients to them when we they have a need I cannot address.
LinkedIn just became my new best friend!