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Brad Emery 【CEO, Founder of Aimviva】 on LinkedIn: Get Seen (3) What Makes an All-Star Profile? You may ask, why do I care? One of the key measures for your SSI (Social Selling Index) is how complete your profile is—the All Star Status simply reflects that you have done what #LinkedIn considers to...

December 20, 2018: Brad Emery 【CEO, Founder of Aimviva】 posted images on LinkedIn

Brad Emery 【CEO, Founder of Aimviva】 on LinkedIn: Building Connections (5) Boolean Search This is so obvious that we forget about it all the time. I don't care what strategy you are using for building your connections; you need to use Boolean search. The screenshot shows a search for...

December 17, 2018: Brad Emery 【CEO, Founder of Aimviva】 posted images on LinkedIn

Brad Emery 【CEO, Founder of Aimviva】 on LinkedIn: Building Connections (Groups) 2nd post from latest article Groups are incredibly powerful, I am currently in 66 of them and looking for more. I like to search for groups that interest me - you don't have to know anything about them. The key is to...

December 14, 2018: Brad Emery 【CEO, Founder of Aimviva】 posted images on LinkedIn

Brad Emery 【CEO, Founder of Aimviva】 on LinkedIn: Building Connections - first post from the latest article If you are serious about growing your network there are 2 clear strategies #1 grow quality connections that you may end up doing business with, or #2 grow as many connections as you...

December 13, 2018: Brad Emery 【CEO, Founder of Aimviva】 posted on LinkedIn

Brad Emery 【CEO, Founder of Aimviva】 on LinkedIn: Get Seen (1) Quora for Headlines @Sarah Grosz tipped me off to Quora in a recent video. I had stumbled upon it a few times before when running Google searches but never really saw a use for it. Sarah suggested using Quora to check whether...

December 18, 2018: Brad Emery 【CEO, Founder of Aimviva】 posted on LinkedIn

Brad Emery 【CEO, Founder of Aimviva】 on LinkedIn: Building Connections (4) Offsite Social Media It never even occurred to me until recently to look for LinkedIn groups on Facebook, Twitter, IG, etc. I mean, why would you do that? @Erol Ertumen was my first inkling, and then @Sohaib Hassan, both...

December 16, 2018: Brad Emery 【CEO, Founder of Aimviva】 posted images on LinkedIn

Brad Emery 【CEO, Founder of Aimviva】 on LinkedIn: Engagement (1) SSI – What’s Really In It The SSI stands for Social Selling Index and has replaced what used to be the Ranking for LinkedIn profiles. This post was old but gut feel is that the majority of what makes up the SSI is contained in the...

December 21, 2018: Brad Emery 【CEO, Founder of Aimviva】 posted images on LinkedIn

Brad Emery 【CEO, Founder of Aimviva】 on LinkedIn: Engagement (3) Recommendations How many recommendations do you have? I have about twenty and have given about seventy. The way I use these is to build my rapport on LinkedIn. If we have spoken on the phone, done business together, or collaborated...

December 23, 2018: Brad Emery 【CEO, Founder of Aimviva】 posted on LinkedIn

Brad Emery 【CEO, Founder of Aimviva】 on LinkedIn: Get Seen (2) Profile - Keywords I posted recently about a change that I made to my profile on the advice of Karthik K - [ Chief Engagement Officer ] - this one was game changer and lifted my found in searches metric from a steady 800 a week to...

December 19, 2018: Brad Emery 【CEO, Founder of Aimviva】 posted images on LinkedIn

Brad Emery 【CEO, Founder of Aimviva】 on LinkedIn: Building Connections (3) Chat Groups It’s very easy to start a group chat now; as you can see from the photo, you just add more than one name and start chatting. You can add more later if you want to. I always accept invitations to these groups,...

December 15, 2018: Brad Emery 【CEO, Founder of Aimviva】 posted images on LinkedIn

Brad Emery 【CEO, Founder of Aimviva】 on LinkedIn: Engagement (2) Endorsements I will get some flak for this one, but I fear the horse has already bolted the stable. Endorsing someone on LinkedIn is a great way to get their attention and having a number of endorsements over 99 is a basic measure...

December 22, 2018: Brad Emery 【CEO, Founder of Aimviva】 posted on LinkedIn

Advanced #LinkedIn Strategies

Edited by Shelley Allen Building Connections (1) If you are serious about growing your network, there are two clear strategies: #1 Grow quality connections with whom you may end up doing business, or #2 Grow as many connections as you can get, regardless of quality. There is no correct answer.