Saturday, December 3, 2011

LinkedIn cheat sheet

21 hidden tricks to market, promote and grow your business
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Use LinkedIn to grow your business:

Announce your new products and services, offer advice, join groups, and start discussions
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Make your business intelligence visual and interactive

Get answers in real-time, take action, and shrink your decision-making window. 
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Are you in the best-fit job / career?

This free test shares some keen insights. My scores: Creator 85, Persuader 80, Thinker 70, Doer 50. What's yours?
http://tiny.cc/r5d7i

Tweet your professional services offering

Don’t let your professional services marketing go stale -- 17 tips from the pros.
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Social media meets B2B marketing

Social media comes of age: the medium is considered a standard direct marketing and bus dev tool -- even for B2B organizations
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Monetize your customers' insights

Forrester Research "Voice of the Customer" -- Ways to monetize insights through a CSAT (Customer Satisfaction) survey
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Mocial survey results

Key trends on how companies are using Social, Mobile, Local and Email to communicate with customers and prospects
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The "Generosity Experiment"

#TED Sasha Dichter of the Acumen Fund shares the results of his month-long experiment where he said "yes" to every request for help
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B2B content marketing drives awareness and engagement.

This survey from uber-blogger Holger Schulze shares which channels deliver the most leads - and more
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Non-paid marketing: get found everywhere for free

Grow followers: share your ideas and tweet others' content in your niche. Readers will enjoy and re-share.
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Your customer's service experience

Do you offer exceptional customer service? Method Products establishes connections through emotional differentiation & shared values - i.e., “the love of (safe) clean.”
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8 timeless business development tips

Focus on referrals, sell solutions, understand biz drivers, build a niche, network!, view your business as a franchise, use a service methodology, and offer training.
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Make your presence known

Companies big and small: do things that attract attention and generate a buzz. Think/act outside the box - or your business will be buried alive.
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Social media marketing

9 important sites http://tiny.cc/zy4eu
... and 9 other not-so-obvious (but cool) social media sites
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5 business development tactics that don’t change

Market knowledge. Prospect research. Teamwork. Presentation. Delivery.
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