Powering up your professional network involves following four steps: making your profile a priority, growing your connections, extending endorsements, and sharing content.
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How can you power up your professional network?
The first step is to make your profile a priority. Make it the most up to date it can be. Don’t leave anything blank. People want to know about you. The more they know about you, the more they trust you. If they trust you, you’re the one they’ll go to with their questions because they’ll consider you the foremost expert in your industry
Secondly, grow your connections. LinkedIn is an important platform through which you can achieve this. Every time you meet with somebody you think you need to know, ask for their email address so that you can join their LinkedIn network. If this person has a secure LinkedIn account and profile, you won’t be able to join it without entering their email address, and you’re not getting anyone’s email if you step away from a meeting or a conversation.
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The more people know about you, the more they will trust you.
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The third thing you need to do is extend endorsements. People love it when you endorse them for what they do. If you give endorsements, you’ll get endorsements in return.
Finally, share content. If you share content with people, it shows them that you’re paying attention to their pages and really reading the content they’re distributing. If you yourself get good advice, what’s the point of keeping it all to yourself? Just like with extending endorsements, the effect of sharing content is symbiotic. If you share content, others will share their content with you, too.
If you have any questions about how to power up your professional network, feel free to email me or give me a call. I’d be happy to help!
