This LinkedIn training guide provides essential steps for businesses to effectively utilize LinkedIn for marketing and networking. It includes guidance on setting up accounts, creating business pages, and optimizing profiles with SEO for visibility, as well as tips for recruitment, analytics, and maintaining active engagement through groups and events. The document emphasizes the importance of networking and interaction in building a strong brand presence on the platform.

1. Linkedin Training guide
Aimed to propel your business and marketing needs
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2. About Linkedin
Founded in 2002 and launched in spring of 2003 by Reid Hoffman
●Graduated from Stanford and Oxford Universities
●Worked with Apple and Fujitsu
●Was a member of the founding for Paypal
Founded LinkedIn after Paypal was acquired by Ebay in 2002
By 2011, LinkedIn had 135,000,000 users across the world
●Includes all executives from the Fortune 500 companies
●Includes all major industries and industry leading companies
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3. Geographical locations
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4. Industry and Company Size
^ Graph of Industry vs Company size on
LinkedIn
Prev < Vincenzo Cosenza’s infographics
demonstrate the growing reach of
LinkedIn.
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5. Setting up your Account
•How do you want your business to be portrayed?
•What is goal of Linked in Profile?
•What Key words for your profile?
•Who are your friends on LinkedIn? Are they good choices?
There are 3 types of Linked in
Premium Accounts to choose
•Business
•Business Plus
•Executive
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6. Types of Premium Plans
Business Business Plus Executive
•Contact 3 people directly through •Contact 10 people directly through •Contact 25 people directly through
InMail with a guaranteed response InMail with a guaranteed response InMail with a guaranteed response
•See 300 profiles when you search •See 500 profiles when you search •See 700 profiles when you search
•Access to premium search filters •Access to premium search filters •Access to premium and total
•Automatically see expanded •Automatically see expanded search filters
professional profiles professional profiles •Automatically see expanded
•Full list of people who have viewed •Full list of people who have viewed professional profiles
your profile your profile •Full list of people who have viewed
•5 folder profile organizer •25 folder profile organizer your profile
•See first names for third degree •See first names for third degree •50 folder profile organizer
contacts contacts •See first names for third degree
•Access to reference search •Access to reference search contacts
•Priority customer service •Priority customer service •Access to reference search
•Priority customer service
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7. Making a Business Page
•Log onto personal account
•Go to company home page (on main bar, under the masthead)
•Click the option “Add a Company”
•Enter Company Name, Company email address
•Tick box to verify you are the official representative of the company.
•Click “Continue”
•Go to the email account you use for your Linked in Account
•You will receive a verification email from Linked in
•Click on the confirmation link to be brought to a confirmation page
•Click “Confirm” on the confirmation page.
•Log in using primary email address and password.
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8. Basic Company info
•Log onto personal account
•Go to company home page (on main bar,
under the masthead)
•Click the option “Add a Company”
•Enter Company Name, Company email
address
•Tick box to verify you are the official
representative of the company.
•Click “Continue” (top picture)
•Go to the email account you use for your
Linked in Account
•You will receive a verification email from
Linked in
•Click on the confirmation link to be
brought to a confirmation page
•Click “Confirm” on the confirmation
page.
•Log in using primary email address and
password.
•Bottom picture is your fresh account
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9. Basic Company Info - Part 1
Time to Flesh out your page!
•Click the dropdown menu entitled: “Admin tools”
•Click on “edit.”
What Type of Business are you running?
1.Company Type: Choose from eight options that include “public
company” and “self-employed.”
2.Company Size: Range of sizes depending on the number of
employees.
3.Company Website URL: Your website address
4.Main Company Industry: What type of company do you run?
5.Company Operating Status: Ranges from operating to out of
business
6.Year Founded
7.Company Location: City, country, state etc.
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10. Permission & Logo - Part 2
Who do you want to modify
your business page?
•You can allow everybody with a company
email address
•You can nominate employees whom are
connected to you in LinkedIn
Want to add logos?
•Click “edit”
•On far right, click the “upload” button
•2 logo limit
•Rectangle logos are standard
•Square logos can also work
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11. Company Description - Part 3
What does your company do?
1.Company Description: Write about your
company. Use short and simple sentences, keep
to the point, be factual and remember key words.
2.Company Specialities: You can add as
many of these as you like. Think of them like tags.
For example, your company might publish books
or it might specialize in different types of cleaning
service.
3.3. Company Blog RSS Feed: Add your
RSS feed to help your SEO.
4.4. News Module: Toggle between showing
news about your company and not showing it.
When you are done,
click “Publish”
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12. 2. Page Optimization
Search Engine Optimization
•SEO = Search Engine Optimization
•SEO helps search engines find your site through key words
•LinkedIn uses SEO
•Customers, employers, and contacts find your business profile
using SEO and key words in LinkedIn
TIPS for setting up efficient SEO
•No spam. Keep to the point.
•Don’t become a super advertiser.
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•Choose your keywords and stick to them.
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13. Back-links
•A Backlink takes a user from one website to another when clicked
•Backlinks can be used to network between LinkedIn sites
•Passive backlinks are written by followers and customers
•Backlinks are valuable, but need to be done right:
●ONLY link to legitimate websites (Such as LinkedIn)
●ONLY use one-way links
To set up a backlink you can…
•Put your company URL in your
company description
•“Careers” and “Products &
Services” can also
have links
•Put your company URL in a status
Prev update (see right)
●Click “Attach a Link”
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14. Driving Traffic to your Site
1.Use Sociable on Wordpress
(or LinkedIn Share button)
●If your company has a wordpress blog, go
to the plugin section of your dashboard
●Click “add new” then
●Search for “sociable”
●Install the plugin then activate it
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15. Driving Traffic to your Site
1.a. Other blogs allow you to install a
specialized Linkedin Share
Button.
●Go to:
https://developer.linkedin.com/plugins/
share-plugin-generator
●At the developer screen, there will be
a series of options.
●Paste the URL to Linkedin company
page
●Choose shape of button
●Click “get code” to generate HTML
●Paste HTML into website.
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16. Driving Traffic to your Site
1.Company Description: Write about your
company. Use short and simple sentences, keep
to the point, be factual and remember key words.
2.Put a link in your profile:
You can put a link on your personal profile
to your company profile.
3.Auto Post Blog updates to your
profile:
You can search for plugins that
automatically update your blog with activity
from your Company or personal profile.
4.Applications: Wordpress & Blog Link
Instead of finding plugins, you can use
Wordpress or Blog link as your blogs
because they already are LinkedIn
compatible.
5.Join Groups
Join or set up a group to facilitate
discussions.
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17. Driving Traffic to your Site
6. Answer Questions (appropriate blog posts only)
Click “more” section to get to the “answers” page. Answer questions. The quality of your
answers increases your reputation.
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18. 3. Business Tools
Adding a Product
•The first and most simple step in monetizing your LinkedIn page is to
create product and services on your business page.
•Go to your business page, click “products”
•Add products if you don’t have any on the main panel
•If you do have products, go to the admin menu on the right hand
side and select “add product”
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19. 11 Steps to Adding a Product
Step 1 Step 3
•Decide if consumers can buy or buy a service or •Enter product service name
product.
Step 4
Step 2 •Upload image or logo of product. Make sure it’s
small enough for LinkedIn.
•Choose a category that suits the product
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20. 11 Steps to Adding a Product
Step 5
•Enter Description of Product (remember SEO
guidelines and key words)
Step 7
•Link to company’s homepage or product site
page.
Step 6
•Choose 1-3 keywords to describe product
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21. 11 Steps to Adding a Product
Step 8 Step 9
•Add contact information for your product (should •Are you running a special promotion on your
be LinkedIn members) product or service? Say so here.
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22. 11 Steps to Adding a Product
Step 10 and 11
•Add URL and title to any YouTube promotional
video
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23. Recruitment
You can post a Job advertisement under the “Careers” option on your
company page (LinkedIn charges a fee to post a job)
How to post a job
Step 1
•Type in Job Title and Location
Step 2
•Fill in the descriptions in the fields about
the job. The last two options are optional.
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24. How to post a job
Step 3
•Similar to the product/services
descriptions, describe the job and its outlines with
SEO in mind.
Step 4
•Enter the desired skills and experience you want
the employee to have.
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25. How to post a job
Step 5
•Similar to the product/services descriptions,
describe the job and its outlines with SEO in mind.
Step 6
•Similar to the product/services
descriptions, describe the job
and its outlines with SEO in
mind.
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26. Premium Career Page
•In addition to the basic service, LinkedIn provides a premium career service
page.
●Helps you develop company’s brand
●To set up, you need to contact LinkedIn directly.
●Additional features: videos, featured employee pages, banners, etc.
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27. Contact Building
LinkedIn offers a platform for networking with likeminded individuals and
companies. Reasons for networking include:
•Future Jobs: LinkedIn gives you tools to hire and consider reputable recommendations
•Advice: you can get advice from experts.
•Contacts and Services: Your network will re-enforce your reputation with recommendations
●Staff Networks: Companies like to show off their good staff to improve their reputation
●Groups: An group opens to collaboration and communication with networking and
business.
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28. Events
•Events are another tool to marketing and promoting your brand and your business at
LinkedIn
●Publicizes your product, service, or new office
● Includes followers in the project
●Great opportunity to get feedback
●Can also be used for private function
•To find the events page. First click on the “more” button
•Click on“events”.
•You will then see a list of suggested events.
•On right-hand side, find a list of your events or click “create event”
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29. How to create an Event
Step 1 Step 2
•Click “create an event” •Write description of event
(keep SEO in mind)
•Enter the name of the event (ex: Bob’s Birthday
Party”), when, where then a logo
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30. How to create an Event
Step 5
Step 3 •Share your event via Twitter and Facebook
•Enter more details about the event
Step 4 Step 6
•What industry does your event relate to? Where •Click “create event” to finish!
can people find out more? Is there a registration?
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31. Analytics
Analytics is on your company homepage under the “analytics” option, it provides
valuable testing and data on your LinkedIn page.
There are several types of analytics that LinkedIn offers.
1. Page Views 2. Unique Visitors
•Overtime, this graph will show how much your •How many times each visitor visits a page of yours
page, career pages, or product and services pages (if they are repeat visitors)
are viewed
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32. Analytics
3. Clicks: Products & Services 4. Members Following
•Who has been clicking on your products and [Company Name]
services page? What were they interested in? •Are your followers increasing or declining?
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33. 4. Brand Building
•Brand Building is a valuable tool to help monetizing your business and
LinkedIn business page
•Brand Building includes Marketing and Advertising schemes
•LinkedIn tailor makes each ad campaign with you, so each marketing
campaign is different.
●Display Ads
●Social Ads
●Sponsorships
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34. Marketing and Advertising
Display Ads:
1.Standard Ad Units and Text Links are displayed on profile and other LinkedIn pages in a
standard web-ad format (IAB-Compliant ads, text links, and premium ads)
2.Content Ads are more dynamic and engaging
3.Homepage Takeovers designed for a specific target audience - High impact
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35. Marketing and Advertising
Social Ads:
1.Follow Company Ads let you highlight your company followers and attract new ones.
2.Recommendation Ads shows off your endorsements and attract new recommendations
3.Join Group Ads create an advert out of group discussions
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36. Marketing and Advertising
Sponsorships:
1.Designed to show off products and services.
2.Active promotion
3.May be negative due to “out and out” marketing
4.Creates sponsorships for products, interns, students, etc.
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37. Group Emails & Warm Calling
•Messaging potential clients and customers can be rewarding, with the right touch and
non-spamming techniques.
•Partner Messages allows businesses to utilize the network’s InMail system. This
system works because:
●They are guaranteed to be kept at top of index pile
●The number an y one user can receive is limited (no spam)
●They can be personalized
●They can be sent to specific people or types of people
●They make a great impact
• To activate Partner Messages, contact LinkedIn team
•Due to the system, your messages become exclusive and much more prone to
responses.
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38. Market Research
•LinkedIn’s Insights act as a means of Market Research
●Long term and Short term
●Data intended to be compared to actual product sales
•LinkedIn’s Insights data and analytics can be used to examine responses to certain
products and certain styles of presentation
●For example, are users responding more to web links than to videos or
vise versa?
●What kins of messages are getting more comments than others?
●Which products are selling well and which ones are not?
• Customer interaction is also highly recommended
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39. 5. Interaction Tools
•The internet has changed traditional
•People can access more information and easier
•Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, as social networking sites, helped
revolutionize business
•“Modern Business” demands a face for the company
•Modern consumers want to feel that their voice matters and real
people run the companies they work with
This section will show you how to make this happen in LinkedIn
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40. LinkedIn Groups
LinkedIn groups can gather employees and fans together in one place
Setting up groups
Step 1
•Create Logo for Group page.
•Choose between “company/branded” group or
“interest” group
•If you use “company/branded group” use the
same logo as your company
•If you choose “interest group” pick a logo relating
to the nature of the group
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41. LinkedIn Groups
Step 2
•Enter group name
•Choose what type it is
Step 3
•Write quick summary of group
(remember SEO)
Step 4
•Write quick summary of group
•(remember SEO)
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42. LinkedIn Groups
Step 5
•Enter website and email
Step 6
•Determine the access of your
group.
•An open group encourages
more people to join and
network
•A closed group filters the type
of people you wish to join the
group
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43. LinkedIn Groups
Step 7
•Enter the language of the
group to add a useful filter
•The location option is only
useful if you plan bringing
people together
•By linking to a twitter
account, you can carry on a
conversation with tweets
•Sign the agreement and click
“Create a group”
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44. Branded vs. Interest Groups
There are two main themes for groups
To find out which group to choose, ask yourself, “Do you want group members to know
this group is run by your company?”
•A Branded Group is open about its company and intent.
●People can discuss your products and services.
•Interest Groups can discuss a wider subject other than your company
●You can use the group to gather feedback without overtly promoting your group
●Users may feel betrayed if they later find out you run the group and it is used as a
promotional machine.
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45. Keeping Groups Active
Setting up a group is half the battle
If you don’t work on a group, it will die.
•Share
●Click on “Share” option on right hand side of your group page
●You will get 4 basic Option
●Share on LinkedIn
●Share on Twitter
●Share on Facebook
●Invite others
•Inviting others to your group will help get the momentum going
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46. Keeping Groups Active
•Discussion
●Starting a discussion to interact with fans and group members
●This could be used as a press release
●This could be used to gather feedback
●Use SEO keywords and basic, clear description when setting up the discussion
●What is the goal about the discussion?
●Is your discussion question interesting? Will it attract people?
●It is possible to attach links to discussions
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47. Keeping Groups Active
•Polls
●Can ask customers if they like a product or service
●Can ask which products or services need upgrading
•Members
Who are your members and which are most active and why?
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•Promotions
You can set up your promotions as a separate from you group, but still visable
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48. Keeping Groups Active
•Jobs
●You can create job discussions.
●Layout is same as general discussion section, but you can identify positions you are
interested in.
●Informal applications
•More
●Check the activity on your site. Does it look good to you? Is it well targeted?
●Check the settings to make sure the group is organized
●Start a subgroup within your group
●Check out the group’s profile. Is it attractive?
●Look at the group’s statistics
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49. 6. Your Checklist
Create a company page
Fill in your company details
Remember your SEO
Backlink to your company website
Create a LinkedIn like button on your homepage
Ask connections to become fans
Add employees to your company list
Create product pages
Post jobs on your company careers page
Ask staff and connections for recommendations
Regularly update your page
Create tailor made adverts for your products and services
Create Events fro product launches
Network with likeminded people and companies
Answer questions on the linked in Answers page
Create a group
Prev Invite your connections to become members
Create new discussions and polls
Use your group for market research
Next Reward active group members

50. Erving Croxen
Website
http://localofflineconsultant.info/
consultantbiz21@gmail.com
Linkedin
http://www.linkedin.com/in/localofflineconsultant
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