How To Use LinkedIn For Business and Personal Reasons

How To Use LinkedIn For Business and Personal Reasons

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional social network that connects professional colleagues and businesses with current employees, potential employees, existing clients, and potential clients. Your growth on LinkedIn lies in the midst of how all you can build trust and relationships, build authority, establish thought leadership, and cultivate a strong network. 

One important rule to make sure your LinkedIn is both a success and beneficial to your business, reputation, and career is to be careful not to overdo self-promotion. This stands true both for personal pages and business pages.  Allow the word-of-mouth method to happen through positive engagement, trustworthiness, and a positive online reputation.

Heres how to use LinkedIn for personal use:

  • Complete your profile thoroughly. Remember, this is your online resume, honesty, and spelling count.
  • Find your connections and reach out to them.
  • Take the time to send contacts a quick note—without needing anything—say hi or share something interesting that pertains to their position or career.
  • Link your profile from your blog and social media accounts to help people find your profile.
  • Participate in groups. Your authority and knowledge can be boosted, leading to new opportunities and connections.
  • Share your content and share high-quality content from others that pertain to your career, brand, and business.
  • Establish thought leadership in your interactions.

LinkedIn drives value because it is based on a user’s professional interests. This makes it a perfect fit for sharing brand-based updates and knowledge as well as driving traffic to company websites. 

Here’s how to use LinkedIn for business use:

  • Complete your company page, and keep it up-to-date. If you change your structure or have company news to share, be sure you’re sharing that information. The updated information will alert your followers in their news feeds.
  • Make sure to respond to posts, reviews, and questions. If a user leaves a product review, be sure to thank them. If they have a complaint or comment, it’s essential to address it. Always answer questions and offer advice and assistance.
  • Follow your competitors’ pages and watch for their updates and page changes. Learn from their social habits, whether good and evil and adjust to your habits. Following competitors also helps you keep strategic direction.
  • Use the platform for business development: LinkedIn is an excellent platform for generating B2B leads, with nearly three times the conversion rate of Facebook. Be sure to keep your company page up-to-date, use the products and services spotlight, and solicit recommendations for your products and opportunities when using the platform for business development.

Shannon Lazovski is known to be Michigan’s first professional fashion blogger with two decades of professional blogging and influencer experience representing and creating content for brands in the fashion, beauty, and luxury travel sectors. Shannon is also the Founder and Senior Fashion & Beauty Editor of Detroit Fashion News and the Owner & Senior Editor of the parenting blog Detroit Mommies. Shannon is also known for her local philanthropic efforts and enjoys serving the community via her nonprofit organization, Glamorous Moms Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization focusing on helping women, children, and families in need. In 2019, Shannon launched her professional-grade lipstick line, Glameselle Beauty, a vegan, cruelty-free lip brand that offers lip products named after Michigan women who inspire. Shannon has been seen on Fox 2 Detroit, WXYZ-TV Channel 7, CBS Detroit, TV20 Detroit, WDIV Local 4 Detroit, IGTV, and seen in Styleline Magazine, Metro Parent Magazine, Dedicated Magazine, Downtown Magazine, Greater Rochester Living and numerous local blogs and online publications.