eight tips to building a better linkedin profile

Eight Tips to Building A Better Profile

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Fill out your profile 100%This might sound obvious, but not completing your profile is a common oversight. A partially completed profile can cause viewers to lose interest and chip away at your credibility. Incomplete profiles lead to incomplete networking.

To complete your profile:

• Explain your complete expertise, specialties and experience

• Spell check

• Add a picture

• Make and solicit at least 4 recommendationshttp://theinteractiveadvisor.com


Create a vanity URLClaim your own LinkedIn vanity URL, which is

www.linkedin.com/yourname

to enhance your own professional name recognition.This can be done from within your profile settings.


http://www.linkedin.com/yourname


Speak in your voiceYour LinkedIn profile is often one of the first ways new contacts and potential clients learn about you. Many LinkedIn profiles are as exciting to read as resumes.

• Use the Summary area to explain, beyond a resume-style list, your professional mission, background and experience in your own words.

• The Specialties area is a great place to highlight special skills, areas of expertise and offerings like workshops.



Implement keywordsPeople often find your LinkedIn profile in the top results of Google searches. Adding keywords to these areas of your profile will help you come up in LinkedIn industry and expert searches as well as broader web searches.

• Your profile headline• Current experience• Past experience• Summary• Specialties section



Allow incoming “InMail”• Make sure you choose to accept incoming communication

from fellow LinkedIn users.

• Go to the settings section of your profile to update your contact settings and ensure others can reach out to you.



Make your profile publicMake sure your profile is public, which means it is searchable by non-LinkedIn users. Your public profile displays your name, title, location, and industry.

On your profile page, click Public Profile Settings on the right hand side. Click “Make my public profile visible to everyone,” which will boost your search engine visibility and help people find you online.



Add descriptive website links• Customize the links to your website and blogs on your

profile page. Initially, they will come up as generic links to My Blog and My Company. By using descriptive words, such as naming your blog “Financial Advice and Tips,” you will attract more clicks.

• To create custom headlines for your website or blog, click on the “edit” button next to one of the websites, then choose “Other” to describe the URL.



Make connectionsThe more connections you have, the more people will have access to your profile. Look for current and past colleagues, clients and classmates as a start. Then see who they know that you might know or be introduced to and build your connections from there.

Connect with me on LinkedIn


http://www.linkedin.com/in/tjgilsenan


Bonus tipInclude a LinkedIn social media icon on your website that connects directly to your LinkedIn profile. This will allow visitors to your website to quickly and easily connect with you on LinkedIn.

Here’s an example from my website, The Interactive Advisor. Check out the upper right side. These icons link directly to my various social media profiles.




is a fast-growing social media resource that shouldn’t be overlooked. But, there is no point in setting up a profile if it’s not done right.



About The Interactive AdvisorFounded by T.J. Gilsenan, The Interactive Advisor helps financial advisors acquire new clients through web marketing. We bring you tools, trends, and best practices from around the web. We help you ask the right questions, find the right answers, and leave the competition in the dust.

For more information, visit http://theinteractiveadvisor.com.


eight tips to building a better linkedin profile

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