Computer TuesdaysLinkedIn 101
Improving Your Personal Profile for Business Growth
Who Should Attend:
Are you brand new to LinkedIn or asking, "I'm on LinkedIn, Now What?" Then this hands on course is for you. The majority of people on LinkedIn are not optimizing their personal profile for search results. The goal is to have your profile found when people are looking for you and what your company offers.
Home Work: Prior to the class have your personal profile registered. Go to www.linkedin.com and sign up for a free personal page account. Bring a thumb drive loaded with a professional picture of you; any documents, videos, and/or white papers that you can add to your profile summary page.
This workshop will cover:
- How to be 40% more likely to be found on LinkedIn
- Setting up and optimizing your profile summary for search engines
- Adding media like videos, images and documents to your profile
- Joining & leveraging groups for brand growth
- How to set privacy settings and a custom vanity url
- Enhancing your professional headline for search
- How to use advanced search to find and connect with those that matter
- Finding, posting and sharing content that matters
Contact
SCORE HOUSTONNo refunds but can apply credit to future events
713-487-6565
raj@scorehouston.org
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Why You Should Have a LinkedIn Profile
If you are a business professional and sell to (or buy from) another business professional, a LinkedIn Profile is a must. LinkedIn has increasingly become the place to see and be seen online when it comes to business networking and recruitment*. With its high level of search engine optimization, your LinkedIn profile can be found by most who conduct a web search on you. Here is why you should create and optimize your LinkedIn Profile:
- You get to tell your own professional story.
- You are more easily recruited*.
- You can find the right person at a potential customer to make a sales call
- It is a tool for managing your internet reputation (your Professional Brand) – gather and display recommendations; become an expert.
Register Now!Spring Special: $89 for one workshop or $129 for two.
If you have signed up for the of Facebook, workshop in April, you can attend this workshop for
only $40.
If not, sign up this workshop for $89 and then you can sign up for Email Marketing or Get your business online workshops in April for $40 more.
Sorry, we cannot accept walk-ins
Instructor, Shelley Roth's bio:
Shelley Roth is an entrepreneur and social media trainer, speaker, consultant and author, helping individuals, organizations and teams improve marketing effectiveness and sales results via social media. (Click for LinkedIn Profile)
Springboard’s methodologies and services are based on over 25 years of successful business development, sales and educational leadership with individuals, early stage companies and Fortune 500 corporations. Shelley is recognized for her ability to motivate and inspire people to excel both individually and professionally.
After several years as the CEO of Springboard Ventures, Inc., which successfully launched businesses and transitioned them to profitability, Shelley added a division to her company, Springboard Social Media. As a trainer, consultant, and speaker on Social Media, Shelley has worked with hundreds of businesses and also trained others as Certified Social Media consultants.
She has served on the advisory boards of several technology companies, served as a mentor and member of the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, and the Houston Technology Center and MIT Forum. She was a founding member of The Greater Houston Partnership, Emerging Business Council and has served as a judge for the Rice Alliance SW Business Plan Competition and Texas A&M Technology Transfer Competition. Shelley holds Masters Degrees in Psychology and Education.
Her books, “Get Real, People! How to Use Social Media for Real-ationship Marketing©”, and “Shedding Your Sales Shark: Lessons From a Recovering Sales Shark and How to Apply them to Social Media Marketing and Life” are based on her many years of successful business consulting and real world experience.