LinkedIn Lead Generation Secrets by LinkedIn Speaker Philip Calvert

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Wherever possible, keep separate notes off LinkedIn on people you've connected with in the past who you feel might/could be potential clients eventually. But diarise those notes to periodically revisit their profile and engage with them through LinkedIn. You'll often be surprised how this can produce business. I just said "Hello, how are you?" to one such person who connected with me on LinkedIn after a presentation I gave five years ago. He immediately booked me to speak at an event of his own next month. #Result

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For the proper geeks among you, here's a piece of LinkedIn history. This is a video made by Yan Pujante who was one of the original software engineers who built the LinkedIn site.  You see him coding (if that's your thing) on the original laptop, but also the very early version of the site. He says: "While looking through my closet I found the original laptop that Reid Hoffman bought for me in 2002 and which I used for several years to build LinkedIn. I was able to boot it up and run a local build of LinkedIn from mid April 2003 so about 3 weeks before the launch. I made a video of the build from April 2003 running in April 2018 on the original laptop! Pretty amazing it still runs!"   https://youtu.be/BivjcNPt6Xs

Take the bull by the horns and work the LinkedIn platform.  Share thought-leadership and proactively engage with people. Why leaders at mid-size service firms must prioritise LinkedIn... Great article and well worth a read...

As a LinkedIn speaker, trainer and consultant, I got into a discussion yesterday with someone who felt that LinkedIn is just terrible at how it promotes itself. Arguably, parent company Microsoft and CEO Jeff Weiner don’t have too much to worry about on that front because they have over 500 million members. But it did get us thinking about who LinkedIn is trying to appeal to. Is it a jobs site? Maybe it’s a networking platform – how exactly does LinkedIn see itself? As a speaker on how to use LinkedIn to increase sales , I’m often asked the same question around the world at conferences – not least of which is "Just how useful is LinkedIn really Phil? I’m on LinkedIn but I don’t really get it…” When you think about the site’s functionality, it has several different target audiences, so it means different things to different people: What is LinkedIn to you? • A recruitment tool? • A blogging platform? • A networking platform? • A statement of your professional expe