Oftentimes when Jason and I do LinkedIn 1×1 or group training sessions, people ask us if they should participate in LinkedIn Groups. If you aren’t familiar with LinkedIn Groups, watch the quick LinkedIn video below to get a feel for what they are and how they work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5CF1FEm_oA&feature=player_embedded#! What we often find is that most […]

About 10 months ago, I had a conversation with my wife Missy (ok, it was more me talking to her and her ignoring me) about how she needed to be on LinkedIn. You see Missy is a professional meeting planner, LOVES the Meeting Planning industry, knows a ton of people across the country, and is well respected in […]

Every single time I have a 1×1 LinkedIn profile training session, one piece of advice I give is to personalize the professional headline of your LinkedIn profile. Some people don’t take my advice, but more and more I’m finding people that are open to being creative and letting the LinkedIn world know a little bit […]

Jason and I do LinkedIn training for companies of all sizes around Kansas City. The training is straightforward and involves 1×1 time spent with individuals helping them understand what makes a great LinkedIn profile. We then follow up and do a group prospecting session where we teach the team how to use LinkedIn, how to […]

Nearly every business owner out there is trying to figure out social media and whether their business should do it, how to do it, when to do it, who to do it with, how many people in the company should do it, what department it falls under, what the ROI is, why they shouldn’t do […]

Do you have a favorite restaurant that you haven’t been to in awhile? Do you have a friend that you’ve been meaning to get together with, but you just haven’t made the time? Do you have a favorite vacation spot that you’ve been dying to get back to, but keep coming up with reasons why […]

Recently, I was fortunate enough to have been selected as one of the speakers at the Professional Convention Management Association’s (PCMA) Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NV (Stay tuned…future blog posts will highlight some of my key takeaways from the experience). This annual event is a gathering of a fabulous group of people and personalities […]

Did you know that LinkedIn has an easy way for you to fine tune your search results, whether you are looking for a specific person, specific company, or just a list of people with a certain title? It’s LinkedIn’s Advanced People Search and it should absolutely, positively be your default method of searching for anything […]

LinkedIn continues to grow like crazy (80 million plus and growing at 1 user per second, press.linkedin.com).  We see more and more people doing relationship management with their LinkedIn profiles.  This is one of the core things that we train our clients how to do and it can have a dramatic impact on your sales […]