LinkedIn Blueprint

LinkedIn is an often overlooked social media platform, but if used properly it can bring you floods of new clients and buyers.

In this guide, you’ll learn the following:

  • Important Settings and Profile Optimization Strategies – When people do a search for you or your brand, they often go to Google. Your LinkedIn profile will most likely show up in the first three positions of the search results. It’s often where those searching will click first to learn more about you.  If your profile is slim or hasn’t been updated since you first created it years ago, it may not be making the right first impression for prospective clients, customers, or potential partners. It’s imperative to have an updated, optimized profile that quickly grabs attention and makes an impression.  Here’s how to get started…
  • Optimizing Your LinkedIn Company Page – You already know that LinkedIn is the social network aimed at building business connections and a place to assist you in your job-hunting endeavors. You probably already have a personal profile on LinkedIn. But do you have a LinkedIn company page set up and optimized for your business? If not, you should.  It’s easy to do. Once set up and optimized, you’ll be available to a wider range of possibilities, from a large database of prospective employees to the use of an extended network to recruit new prospects.
  • LinkedIn Content Domination – The content you share on LinkedIn builds your reputation. If it’s quality, relevant information and entertaining, your reputation excels. If it’s not relevant, is inconsistent and poorly constructed your reputation takes a hit.  Like any part of an online business, keeping consistent with your content in social media can be difficult. It’s hard to determine what to post, what type of content you should be using and what will get the most engagement for you.  Learn here how to look at different styles of content and the best uses for each.
  • LinkedIn Client Outreach – Reaching out via LinkedIn is the key to building your prospect list. But it should be done in a way that doesn’t offend or annoy the prospect. And you don’t want to reach out to everyone hoping that you connect with the right ones for you. In this guide, you’ll discover how to create an effective out reach funnel to build your prospect list.

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Benefits of Writing a Book, part 3

Jumpstart Your Signature Product Offerings by Writing a Book

Writing a book offers many benefits to professional coaches. You may be surprised to discover how the process of writing a book can help you jumpstart other projects, such as signature product offerings that gain you more business, a wider presence in your industry, and another avenue for helping others.

Writing Stimulates Creativity

Writing is an utterly creative process. Regardless of the endless hours you spend researching and outlining your book, the time you spend in front of the keyboard pounding out chapters is an entirely creative time that actually serves to feed your creative tendencies. These are the times when ideas, plans, and processes for other projects will come to you.

Take a little time to jot a note so you don’t forget about these new ideas, then get back to work on your book. You want to make sure you don’t lose track of these signature ideas but also that you do not get lost in planning that project rather than completing your book.

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Benefits of Writing a Book, part 2

5 Ways Writing a Book Will Teach You about Your Fears and Your Habits

Which of these scenarios best describes you?

Scene A: You wake up refreshed to start your day and can’t wait to sit down to write another chapter (or four!) of your latest book. You adore the writing process and can easily enter your “zone” where time just stands still and your fingers move like the wind across the keyboard.

Scene B: You wake up refreshed to start your day but you do everything else on your to-do list first instead of writing a chapter of the book that you know will boost your business. Procrastination is your friend and the “reasons” you give yourself for not writing are simply excuses.

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The Purpose Project

The Purpose Project is a 25 page(~6000 word) report that teaches people the importance of following their purpose. It also shares tips about how you can pinpoint what your purpose is, then provides the steps you should take to follow it.

Sections Include:

  • The Power of Finding Your Purpose
  • Purpose Project – Asking The Right Questions
  • Purpose Project – Finding Your Purpose
  • Purpose Project – Following Your Purpose

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