My account, my contacts, my groups, my business and my marketing are all suspended.  Yes, I do a lot of business on LinkedIn and use it every single day. How what?  What happened? Did I do something wrong? Can this happen to you? YES!

Immediately I visited the FAQ in LinkedIn and under “suspended accounts” I read every single question and answer.  No, I did not send unrequested emails or invitations, no, I did not spam, no, I did not do anything wrong.  What happened?

After reading the FAQ portion I quickly submitted an email through the web form in the suspended account section of the professional social network.  I waited 2 days and nothing.  No account and no response.  Now I visited the social network again and read all pertinent information I could find.  Finally, I found a customer service email.  I quickly send an email explaining my situation and asking for clarification, an explanation or any response.  Even apologizing for whatever unintentionally I could have done to merit a suspended account.

Next day I received a response and my account was activated.   What happened? 

New Rule!  You may only use the “First Name” and “Last Name” section of your LinkedIn profile for your first name and last name.  You can’t add anything else.  What does this mean?  Well, as a marketing tool I wrote clever messages after my last name on my profile. This is a marketing headline strategy to get more attention, more click-troughs and more exposure.  This is what I had:

Jorge Olson - Just Published a Beverage Book

When you do a search on the site for “beverage”, or “book” my name always came up. Furthermore when someone invited me to join their network or just browned my name they would know I just published a beverage book.  I did this by simply going into my profile and writing the text after my last name.  Now LinkedIn does not permit any messages at all; just your name. 

How can this affect you? Simple, you can’t use this strategy anymore. It also affects “open networkers”, the people who accept all invitations and want to expand their network as they can’t announce they are open networkers anymore. May people belong to groups like LION or TopLinked and other groups of open networkers who require you write their name after you last name; you can’t do it anymore.  Many more of you might write your email after your name to invite people to network, remove it.  These are some of the common uses of your profile name that are being cracked down:

Jorge Olson - jorge@ jorgeolson.com

Jorge Olson - LION

Jorge Olson - TopLinked

Jorge Olson - Phone: (619) 852 6942

Jorge Olson - Any marketing message

If you have something after your last name remove it today before you get a surprise next time you log in to your profile.

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Professional Keynote Speakers and Event Managers learn abound keynotes, events, technology, knowledge and topics for presentations, seminars or training. It is an active group that talks about sales, books, marketing, social media, and other self promotion and tactical information.

Join the social network LinkedIn.com and then the group Keynote Speakers to network with Professional Keynote Speakers, Presenters and Trainers as well as Seminar and Conference Organizers. The network is based in Southern California and welcomes members form all over the world. Updates are made every two weeks and we have meetings in Southern California.

Join the Group Here: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=883047

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Sometimes you apply to that perfect job. A job that you saw online or on the newspaper and seems perfect for you and you perfect for it. You have the desire, the expertise and the experience. You even write a customized introduction letter and you tweak your resume to fit the job description. You apply to this perfect job and you are sure they will call you back for an interview. You wait for that call and wait and wait. Nothing! No calls, no emails, just nothing.

What is wrong? Why don’t you get any callbacks? Is it you or is it them? Don’t worry, it’s not you. I’ve been on both sides of the job process and anytime I was hiring I received hundreds of resumes. It’s not easy to go through all of those resumes quickly and effectively. It is not easy to get back to every single applicant to give them feedback, or to tell them why they did not make the cut.

How do hiring managers go through resumes? Most likely they make 3 piles. One pile has the “No way” resumes, the other pile has the “Maybe” resumes and the good pile has the “Call back” resumes. This is important because hiring managers make this decision in about 5 seconds. Yes, five seconds to look over a resume and make a decision either to send it to the good pie or the bad pile.

You have to write your resume thinking that your first sale is to make it to the “Call back” pile, not to actually get the job. After you make it to the “Call back” pile you have to sell an interview. Here, in the interview is where you sell yourself for the job.

How do you ensure a callback? By listening to my free audio conferences on how to get a job fast by clicking this link

If you would like to use LinkedIn to find your next job make sure to see the advanced linkedIn seminar here

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Discover how to add 4,000 unique visitors to your blog or website; get hundreds of new leads and brand new sales from pre-qualified customers.

Remember, linkedin.com is the only professional network on the internet with now close to 40 million executives, entrepreneurs and other high end members. If you want to start any type of social media or social networking marketing start with LinkedIn. You will find more pre-qualified leads and customers there.

Get more information on the LinkedIn Sales, Marketing and Self Promotion here

 
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Your new blog is made to capture leads, manage leads, and close more sales!

Your Blog is one of the most important marketing tools you have at your disposal. It helps you attract leads, establish credibility, it keeps in contact with potential customers, closes sales and even stays in touch after the sale. Your blog places a person in front of the customer, and customers what to do business with people they know.

Blogs are the basis of Web 2.0 marketing because they make your site immediately interactive. Visitors learn about you, what you like, what you write about, your business and your passions.

The Problem
You can spend all you efforts creating and updating blogs and never get any leads, customers or real traffic from it. What happened? You had the wrong bogging software or the wrong plugging and you lost all that effort.

Your blog has to:
-Be listed in major search engines
-List every blog post in major search engines
-Bring you traffic
-Capture traffic and add them to your newsletter and RSS feed
-Communicate with visitors long after they are gone
-Establish relationships with potential customers
-Help you get customers and keep customers
-Give you more up-selling opportunities
-Position you as an expert in your field

If you’re blog is not doing what it’s supposed to do, call us today, we’ll change you from your old platform to the new one in a flash and train your blog to do what it’s supposed to do.

The Solution
We created a state of the art bloging marketing solution based on Word-Press with all the right plug-ins, in the right format and with the right add-ins and widgets.

This solution will make every word that you write count. It will submit your content correctly to search engines and

The Service
We install the software for you and even take care of the hosting if you want. We can install the software in your current hosting account, in our own hosting servers or wherever you want. You can have the blog as your main website and built around itv(www.yoursite.com) or you can have the blog as an addition to your website (www.yoursite.com/blog).

The Difference
Why are we different? 2 main points!

1.- We specialize in marketing software solutions and in marketing strategy. We develop all software and best practices for sales ad marketing. You benefit from years of experience in marketing consulting together with software development to bring you state of the art solutions.

2.- We treat you as the most important customer, because you are. We want you to succeed, to have a wonderful blog that communicates, gets through the internet clutter and reaches its intended audience.

Our blog solution includes the forms and best practices on how to capture leads and communicate with leads.

Don’t forget to review the LinkedIn For Marketing, Sales and Self Promotion presentation by clicking this link 

WHY be an open networker on LinkedIn?

LinkedIn is a professional network – a social network for grown ups

It has 30 million professionals

It is a great way of self promotion

You can use it to get a job or sell products or services or get funding

First of all you need to join the following groups:

-LinkedIn For Marketing Group

-GON Global Open Network

-TopLinkedIn Group

-All of the LION groups

-OPEN NETWORK

Joining these groups will allow you to add people at random and most importantly, others will find you and add you to their network.

Automation of your profile

-If you want automation of your profile join the paid subscription at Open Networker Site

-This will add a few thousand subscribers to your network by sending emails to several thousand people informing them that you are a paid member.

Profile

Make sure that you announce on your profile that you are an open networker by writing the words “Open networker accept all invitations” and your email address on your network.

Do a good job at finishing your profile and adding a photo as it will increase your changes of getting invitations.

Don’t forget to sign up for our LinkedIn For Marketing Newsletter to get free videos, audios and strategy once per week.

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Being an open networker on LinkedIn is one of the most powerful strategies for adding 3,000, 6,000, even 10,000 connections in just a few months.  Your first 4,000 connections can come as fast as 1 or 2 months.

Remember, these are strategies for self promotion for you, your job and your business.  Being an open network can accelerate your job search and help you get more leads for your products or services.

These social networking strategies can be used in any social network, but in LinkedIn you will get the most results in the fastest way.  Remember, LinkedIn is the social network for professionals.

Don’t forget to read my book “The Unselfish Guide to Self Promotion” to learn more strategies on job hunting, sales, marketing and self promotion.

LinkedIn for Marketing Teleseminar – Radio Show Details

Thursday March 26 at 3 PM PST 6 PM EST

Listen on the Web: www.BlogTalkRadio.com/LinkedInForMarketing

Listen over the Phone: Phone: (646) 200-4444

Show ID: 422973

If you decide to listen over the web you will be able to ask question as we have a chat tool!

If you miss the live event come back to listen the recordin

Listen to other LinkedIn For Marketing Tele-Seminars on Job Hunting, Marketing and Self Promotion at http://linkedinformarketing.com/training/

Don’t forget to sign up for our LinkedIn For Marketing Newsletter to get free videos, audios and strategy once per week.

Why do YOU want to compare job hunting to a sales process?

1: Sales Process has best practices. In other words, they have steps that you can follow and repeat and get the same results over and over again

2: Confidence. When you compare a Sales Process with Job Hunting you have expectations and it will help with your morale

-A Resume is a Sales Letter
-A Call to a company is a Cold Call
-An Interview is a Sales Meeting
-A follow up call is a Sales Call
-A follow up note is a Sales Thank You Letter

Don’t forget to sign up for our LinkedIn For Marketing Newsletter to get free videos, audios and strategy once per week.

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Tomorrow, Thursday March 12 at 3 PM PST 6 PM EST

Listen on the Web:
www.BlogTalkRadio.com/LinkedInForMarketing  

Listen over the Phone:
Phone: (646) 200-4444
Show ID: 422973

If you decide to listen over the web you will be able to ask question as we have a chat tool!

If you miss the live event come back to listen the recording

You can find Part 1 of the teleseminar here http://linkedinformarketing.com/how-to-get-a-job-now/

Don’t forget to sign up for our LinkedIn For Marketing Newsletter to get free videos, audios and strategy once per week.

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LinkedIn is one of the best places online or offline to find a new job. You just need to navigate this professional network so you don’t waste your time.

LinkedIn is full of Hiring Managers and Head Hunters. What is the problem? Most of them don’t post jobs in the job section of LinkedIn. You have to find them and their jobs.

Fill out your profile completely including
-Photo
-Job History
-Education
-Ask for Recommendations

Join Groups
-Join Local Groups
-Join HR Groups where headhunters are
-Join Industry Groups by Industry and Position
–Industry like Construction, or Retail
–Position like Architects, or Programmers, or Financial Analysts
–Your can apply directly from LinkedIn

Be an open networker
-Put “open networker’ on your profile
-This will allow hiring managers and recruiters to contact you

Use the Job section to find jobs in your area
-Search by location or position
-Contact the hiring manager
-Contact other people in your network in that company

Look for job postings in Groups
-Enter groups and click on Discussions and Jobs
-Contact the job poster directly

Contact Recruiters in your network
-Look at your connections
-Look at your groups
-Look for jobs in their profile

Don’t forget to sign up for our LinkedIn For Marketing Newsletter to get free videos, audios and strategy once per week.

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