My weekly tips on How to become a LinkedIn Star
Chris J Reed
The Only CEO with a Mohawk: Black Marketing: World No.1 LinkedIn Marketing & Personal Branding Firm, 2,200 LinkedIn Recommendations "Everybody Counts or Nobody Counts" - Harry Bosch
There are at least TEN things wrong or missing with your LinkedIn profile and LinkedIn marketing strategy, would you like to know what they are?
I can guarantee that 99% of people on LinkedIn have at least 10 things wrong or missing with their profiles and with their LinkedIn marketing strategy.
These are the most common 25:
1) Your banner can’t be read on a lap top
2) Your banner can’t be read on a mobile device
3) You have no profile photo
4) You have a photo but only your 1st connections can see it
5) You don’t have a headline of 220 characters
6) Your headline doesn’t actually say what you say or contain any SEO words
7) You don’t have your CTA button activated on the top of your profile
8) You don’t have your Services section activated
9) Your services section has no media
10) Your Featured section is not activated
11) You have not updated your Featured section with weekly/daily content
12) Your have no About section
13) Your About Section doesn’t say what you do and what you could do
14) Your company page doesn’t have a strapline
15) Your company page is not at the top of your profile
16) Your most relevant job is not at the top of your experience section
17) You have no job/company description in your Experience section
18) You keep reposting from your company page
19) You keep reposting other people’s content
20) All you post about is your company
21) No one engages with your content because you’re not sharing personal content
22) You have no personal photos of you in your content
23) You have no social selling strategy
24) You have no LinkedIn SmartLink
25) You have no LinkedIn Recommendations
What do you think?
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2dMight I add another one, Chris? 26) You have NO banner. A minority of profiles here are still without one of these. Anyway, I hope it's not too late to wish you a Happy New Year. May 2025 be the best year of your life yet!