Episode 170

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22nd Jul 2017

How Does Your Profile Make People Feel?

Welcome to episode 170, I’m still away this week but rather than go two weeks without an episode I thought I would pre-record an interview with the amazing LinkedIn Trainer from London called Alex Galviz.

We cover a lot of ground in the interview and I hope you will agree that Alex’s approach to LinkedIn is both refreshing and inspiring.


But first I thought you might find these interesting…


Interesting Stuff I Saw This Week


The British Prime Ministers ex PR guru makes her feelings known in her LinkedIn headline…but doesn’t know how to update her profile properly!


Migrating Groups is not as easy as some people suggest! This is a really interesting post about the difficulties in persuading people to migrate away from LinkedIn. This re-enforces my view that the answer to online communities still exists within LinkedIn but that LinkedIn need to work hard to re-invent groups.


Interview with Alex Galviz


I really enjoyed chatting with Alex, a millennial LinkedIn trainer and coach for millennials from London.


We covered a lot of ground in our chat;


Challenging your definition of success Finding your ‘Why’ LinkedInLocal events Millennials on LinkedIn LinkedIn’s editorial calendar Crowdsourcing your headline 5 tips for a great headline 1. Don't tell show 2. Think about how you want people to feel when they enter your virtual home 3. Do you give them enough teasers that they want to get to know you more? 4. Is your WHY clearly explained? 5. Why are you different to someone else doing the same job? Personal branding and authenticity


This is the post Alex referred to that kickstarted her career as a career coach and LinkedIn specialist.

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Relentlessly helpful® LinkedIn® nerd, trainer and consultant who specialises in LinkedIn best practice for individuals, small businesses and corporates. I wrote the personal branding handbook Content DNA, I founded the Espresso+ online community for small business owners and I'm the creator of the UK's original independent conference on LinkedIn best practice, UpLift Live.