1. The Power of
Personal Connections*:
&
* Plus, 50 Fabulous Free websites to help
you do things faster, better cheaper.
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4. Why use
• Largest B2B social network: founded in 2003; 42M members;
1new member per second; 50% outside US
• All Fortune 500 represented; over 4M small businesses
• Increase visibility, improve Google page rank & search engine results
• Increase connectability: locate people from your past, present & future
• Research companies & people (staff movement, hiring turnover, job
descriptions)
• Give and get—ask questions, answer questions, write recommendations
• Promote yourself and your business with added apps, website, blog visibility
• Scope out the competition, potential customers and employers
• Keep track of job movement and people within your network
5. Maximize Your Experience
• Must Do! Strive for 100% complete profile (click “complete profile” button
to see how complete your profile is: follow instructions to get to 100%)
• Must Do! Use the “professional headline” for more than your current title:
use it to describe yourself (see Basic Information section)
• Should Do! Use “current status” (AKA “Facebook” field) to raise your
professional profile: e.g.: what are you working on?, what are you reading?,
what are you attending?…Current status updates appear in your network’s
email updates
• Make your profile and work experience as complete as possible: it will
bring more potential connections to your attention
• Your LinkedIn profile should complement your resume, not duplicate it;
what do you want people to know “behind” your resume?
• Must Do! If you’re a business owner, create a business page for your
business NOW; it increases business’ credibility & visibility
6. Maximize Your Experience
• Must Do! Edit your public profile URL to your name; add this URL
as a hyperlink to your email signature: people you email can instantly
look you up
• Add your websites and blogs to website listings: list up to three
(you could also list causes you are involved in)
• Applications add functionality and visibility to your profile: select ones
you’ll use (I love: Amazon Reading Lists, SlideShare and Blog Link, but
choose what works for you and your business)
• Give and get recommendations strategically: however, do not give
recommendations that you would not give in “real life”
• Join groups that will complement both your professional and
personal interests
• Ask questions when you are trying to solve a problem or find a solution:
particularly if you are looking for something specific
7. Some Stats @
• Largest social network in the world, 4th most visited website
• Privately owned and operated, founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, while he
was a student at Harvard
• Over 200 million active users around the world; more than 100M users log on
each day; fastest growing demographic is 35+; 70% of users outside US; 30M
current mobile users; mobile users are 50% more active than non-mobile users
• Average user has 120+ friends, more than 4 billion minutes per day spent on
Facebook (worldwide), 30M+ update page at least once a day
Sources: Compete.com 06/17/09,Facebook/MySpace/Twitter
8. Why Join ?
• Network with friends, colleagues, customers and potential customers
• MUST DO! Register your customized personal username NOW!
It will boost your Google rank (register your vanity url NOW!
Once you register for it, it is yours forever! You might want to add
it to your email signoff, if you use FB frequently)
• Create Groups and Fan Pages for your business; provide links to your
business; find complementary groups to promote your business
• MUST DO! Publicize events to your network and groups
• Upload photos, videos, and websites
• Design applications to promote your business
9. My Lucky Strike Extra!
The Fast Fifty Websites* that
will help you do things faster,
better and cheaper
(*and they are almost all free!)
10. google.com/alerts
Google might take over the world!
They have free apps galore that can help your
business immensely. These are just a couple
of the best…
stay on the lookout for Google Wave!
What are they saying about you on the web?
Track it and your competitors…
16. websitegrader.com
Free SEO tool: easy to
use and understand;
also has facebook
and twitter graders;
How does your
website score against
your direct
competition?
This will tell you and
tell you exactly how
to improve your
score.
17. instapaper.com
Save web pages you
want to read but
don’t have time to
now in one central
place!
Read later icon in
toolbar…
21. “Getting Things Done”
Davidandco.com:
David Allen’s
process: GTD
The god of productivity
gurus…his email
management ideas are
gold…
22. 43folders.com
A David Allen disciple:
great productivity
tips and tricks
23. thefourhourworkweek.com
For those of you
who love Tim
Ferriss, or really
hate him; either
way he’s
interesting and
provocative, and
urges us not to
waste our personal
time and
resources
24. Get the equivalent of a
graduate degree in
itunesu.com anything…Classes available
for download on any subject
from some of the best
universities in the world
25. Keep track of
what’s hot around
the world: great
Trendhunter.com free reports on
worldwide trends
32. Save paper: print
only what you
Printwhatyoulike.com want from a web
page
33. Productivity tools
and tricks:
lifehacker.com particularly
involving
technology
34. Good advice for
those of us over-
zenhabits.com scheduled, over-
worked people
35. Stay up to date on
what’s going on in
social media, and
mashable.com it changes daily
36. Give yourself a gift and listen to
at least one TED talk a week.
ted.com Share on Facebook and LI, share
your favorites with friends and
colleagues