Your website is your online home and so is LinkedIn. Especially for a professional like me, who has been in the industry writing LinkedIn profiles from the past 10 years, LinkedIn has given me what nothing else could have.
I have earned money for a livelihood, promoted various links and products, influenced people on good causes as well as helped 1000s of people understand the platform and find new jobs!
In Dec 2013, I recollect I wrote my first LinkedIn profile for a gentleman and since then, there has been no looking back. Before that I had been recruiting, writing Resumes for various cadres etc. but the moment I started writing LinkedIn profiles, my world changed!
What’s special about LinkedIn
- It is the sole professional network that has maximum no. of true profiles that are validated. The network unlike FB or Twitter has a stringent system to filter out fake profiles!
- The network offers features such as LinkedIn Jobs and LinkedIn Learning that are priceless.
- The network has great free features, to the extent that I used it to run an entire recruitment business several years back.
- The network is an online Resume which allows us to be colourful and just be ourselves.
So what differentiates it from a website?
- You do not have to build it using any designing platform or Software.
- You just go, register an account and start updating and operating.
- You have a profile that looks well polished if written well.
- You can out up images, videos and brand yourself seamlessly.
- You can create Company Pages and Groups as well.
- You can join several Groups and network seamlessly.
Imagine the power of LinkedIn and a Website combined!
These would be the benefits, to say the least:
- You can blog on your website and post the links on your LinkedIn wall for advertising and it will instantly reach millions of people, if you use paid advertising.
- You can cross link your LinkedIn profile and put it up on your website, which will drive traffic towards both networks at the same time.
- You can use similar or different keywords on your blog/website as well as LinkedIn account and rank very high in search engines permanently.
- You can copy paste your website blog articles to your LinkedIn Pulse platform and promote it further that will get you more customers and fans/followers.
- You can also spread the word using FB, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube simultaneously to ensure your blog as well as LinkedIn profile receives good traction.
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In my subsequent articles, I will explain all these steps in detail.