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How to back up or export your LinkedIn connections
On May 2, 2023 By James Potter - The Linked In Man
LinkedIn has become a critical business tool and as such I often receive notes asking how to back up the connections on a LinkedIn account for a variety of reasons. It might be that you’re: trying to extract all the details to populate a customer relationship management (CRM) system. adding them to a mailing program […]
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What does success look like on LinkedIn? Part two.
On April 20, 2023 By James Potter - The Linked In Man
In our previous blog we shared five things to consider when moving towards more success on LinkedIn, but there are so many we had to do a part two – so here’s another five things to look at to make your LinkedIn more successful. Inbound invites – With increased visibility you will find there is […]
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How to change the hashtags you talk about in LinkedIn Creator Mode
On January 19, 2023 By James Potter - The Linked In Man
When you first chose to activate your LinkedIn Creator mode, LinkedIn would have asked you for the five hashtags of things you talk about so that it could highlight these at the top of your profile (as you can see highlighted below): But sometimes you find better hashtags, you evolve what you offer and hence […]
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How to edit a LinkedIn post to correct a mistake, or delete it
On October 3, 2022 By James Potter - The Linked In Man
We’re all human and we all make mistakes sometimes, but why is it we only spot those mistakes after we’ve hit the post button on LinkedIn? Dang it! There’s nothing worse but fear not for there is an easy fix for whatever has happened. First some thinking: Is the mistake material enough to change? After […]
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Career breaks on LinkedIn
On March 4, 2022 By James Potter - The Linked In Man
LinkedIn are finally rolling out the ability for users to add a Career Break to their profile, the idea being that, rather than having a gap in your work experience history if you have taken a break from work, you can now choose the Career Break option, select an option to describe the reason for […]
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Top 10 industries on LinkedIn globally, 2022
On February 8, 2022 By James Potter - The Linked In Man
We’ve analysed the industries across LinkedIn globally and thought we’d share the current top ten. It’s interesting to note that the top 8 haven’t moved places at all since we last did a review in November 2020. The only change this time around is that Higher Education (previously in 10th place) and Automotive (previously in […]
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LinkedIn Service Page
On June 14, 2021 By James Potter - The Linked In Man
Another recent addition to LinkedIn is the service page which according to LinkedIn is a “dedicated landing pages that showcase your services and businesses at no cost.” The idea is that this free tool will help your business get discovered on LinkedIn by its members and anyone outside of LinkedIn searching for your services via […]
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LinkedIn Gender pronouns
On May 11, 2021 By James Potter - The Linked In Man
You might have already noticed that some users on LinkedIn are using the new, optional gender pronouns field at the top of the Profile which will be displayed next to your name, but you might have been wondering how they do it or perhaps why? Simply put, gender pronouns are the words we use to […]
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LinkedIn introduces a new and upcoming feature rolling out soon – Cover Story
On May 5, 2021 By James Potter - The Linked In Man
LinkedIn recently announced a new tool called Cover Story – not yet available in the UK but slowly rolling out globally. It is aimed at helping users share their professional skills via an introductory video within their profiles. The idea of the video Cover Story is to give you the opportunity to personalise your profile […]
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Happy Birthday LinkedIn – it turns 18 today!
On May 5, 2021 By James Potter - The Linked In Man
When you turn 18 it is the official end of your childhood and the beginning of adulthood and that feels like an appropriate view for LinkedIn. After officially starting on the 5th May 2003 it was on a mission to “connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful” and it has certainly […]
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