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How To Add A YouTube Video To Your LinkedIn Profile

Here is an excellent video about how you can Enhance your LinkedIn profile by doing the following:

• adding Applications
• adding a YouTube Video (first you must open a Google Account - it's free)
• adding a list of books you are reading
• adding Powerpoint presentations you've done. (First you must open a SlideShare account and then upload your Powerpoint to SlideShare).

Watch the video. If you have questions, please email me at info@vernongirl.com

Cheers, Courtenay

 

Secrets of Internet Marketing with Social media - slideshare

Secrets of internet marketing with social media

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3 Ways to Network on LinkedIn: Promote, find, attend events

 
 

Are you looking to promote your event? Are you looking for local networking opportunities? Here are three ways events can be used as networking tools on LinkedIn:

1. Find an event to attend.

2. Promote your own event or seminar.

3. Announce that you are attending someone else's event.

Step 1.

Sign into LinkedIn.

Step 2.

Find the "More" menu at the top of your home page. Click on the "Events" tab in the "More" dropdown menu.

Step 3 - Find Events.

You will come to the "Events Home" page. On this page, you will see Network Updates of events that people in your network are attending, hosting, or are interested in. This is a great way to find common interests with your network, or start conversations in order to build relationships with those in your network.

Click the "Find Events" tab.

To find events happening in your area, fill in the "Specific Location" radio button and enter the location you would like to search. I did one for Kelowna. You can see it here below:

Hit the Search button and it will return searches for the location you specified. Searches can be refined by: Upcoming, Within a Week, Within a Month, Within a Year, Past, or Any.  Event Type can be refined by All, Conferences, Tradeshows and Conventions, Networking and Meetups, Training and Seminars, Fundraisers or Other.

Step 4 - Add Events.

Click the Add an Event Tab. Here, you can enter the event title, date and time, venue name, location, website and whether you are attending, are interested or are not attending. If you are not organizing the event, you would simply click that you are attending or that you are interested.

To have the event appear on your LinkedIn profile, select "Attendee", "Presenter" or "Exhibitor" from the grey box that will appear when you select the box next to "I'm attending."

If you are the organizer of the event, you click "Yes, I am organizing the event." and then Add more details. The "Add more details" screen will ask for all of the above details plus Address, City, Region, Country, Postal Code and a description. This image shows the screenshot.

It will also ask you to categorize your event by Type, Industry, Keywords, Who should attend and Organization, as you'll see in this screenshot below:

Step 5 - Publish.

Click on "Publish Event".

What events are you attending? Make sure you promote it on LinkedIn.

Thanks for reading!

Courtenay Pitcher

Use LinkedIn to find new clients in your geographic area, city or town

 

Have you ever wanted to find people to connect within your city or general area using LinkedIn? As long as you are a member of LinkedIn, one of the best on-line networking business resources right now, it is easy to do and it is free:

Step 1:

Make sure you are signed in to LinkedIn.

Step 2 - Advanced Search:

Look for the Advanced Search link on the top right hand side of your LinkedIn screen. It is located to the right of the People search box. It looks like this (highlighted in blue):

Step 3 - "Located In or Near" search:

In the Location box, use the drop down menu to search "Located in or near". Then type which Location you would like to search. You can search within a certain distance of your local area and it will pull both members in the area and members who are willing to travel to your area. It will pull results from your postal code and the surrounding postal code area within that distance you specify.

You can also sort by Keyword, First Name, Last Name, Title, Company, School, Industry, Groups, Interest (all members, industry experts, potential employees, consultants/contractors, entrepreneurs, hiring managers, or deal-making contacts), or when they Joined LinkedIn.

Hit the "Search" button at the bottom of the page and get your results.

Step 4 - Filter:

Now, you can filter your search results to: 

Current Company: All companies, or specific ones in your area.

Relationship: All members, 1st Connections, 2nd Connections, Groups or 3rd and Everyone Else connections. Use the 3rd and Everyone Else connections to find those people that you are not yet connected to.

Industry: All industries, Real Estate, Construction, Financial Services, Health, Wellness and Fitness, Hospitals and Healthcare, etc.

The filter section is on the left side of the page about mid-way down. It looks like this image below:

Do you have questions about using LinkedIn? Let me know. If I can answer them in a simple post like this, I will. Or, if you would like a longer training session on LinkedIn or other Social Media, I offer those for groups or individuals for a very reasonable fee.

Cheers,

Courtenay Pitcher

Slideshare - Grow Your Business With Social Media

Grow your business with social media

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Here is a slideshare presentation of a recent presentation I made about How To Grow Your Business With Social Media.

There was a question that came up during the presentation:

"How do I invite people to become Fans of my Facebook page if they are not already my friends. I have their email addresses."

Answer: You must first "Friend" them on Facebook, using their email, and then you can invite them to be a Fan. If you don't want to "Friend" them, you just have to make sure that your Facebook Fan Page is engaging enough that they will Fan you themselves.

Remember, you could send them an individual email and ask them to become a Fan. I'm not suggesting that you SPAM everyone. But one nice personalized note, popped through the email, is still okay, in my opinion.

Thanks for reading!

Courtenay Pitcher

June 21st - Vernon - Grow Your Business With Social Media Event

When Brenda Hala approached me to provide a workshop on behalf of The Professional Photographers of Canada - BC (PPABC), I was delighted to say Yes!

Formerly called the Professional Photographers Association of BC, the association now calls itself Professional Photographers of Canada - BC to create a stronger voice across Canada.

The Association promotes and fosters the personal ethics and professional development of the working photographer and/or specialist.

Brenda Hala says that the principle focus of the PPABC is the advancement of their members and associates within the photographic industry through education, fellowship and public awareness.

Brenda is the one who takes my portrait photo. I always enjoy working with her because it's fun.

Join me for a workshop about marketing with social media, presented by the PPABC! The event is open to anyone.

Monday, June 21, 2010
8:30 a.m. - Networking and Registration
9:00 a.m. to Noon - Seminar

Location:

Village Green Hotel
4801-27th Street, Vernon, BC V1T 4Z1

Cost: $25 per person. Please pay at the door.
Cheque or cash only. No credit card.

For more information, and to pre-register, please contact:
Brenda Hala
250.542.3010
brendahalaphotography@shaw.ca

Topics will include:

LinkedIn - Learn how to network with LinkedIn for advancing your career or small business. Create a LinkedIn profile, get and give recommendations, connect your LinkedIn profile to Twitter, customize your website link, start or join a group, share what you are reading, or promote your blog or RSS feed.

Blogs – You’ll see how cheap and easy it is to begin blogging. Learn how to post articles, photos and YouTube.com videos to your blog. Learn what a category cloud is. Understand why you should comment on other blogs to promote your business. Learn why blogging can leverage your marketing, earn trust, gain you clients and increase your credibility.

Twitter – Set up a profile, tweet, retweet, direct message, reply, customize your Twitter background, and schedule tweets. How to brand yourself, increase traffic to your blog or website, build relationships and increase your profile using Twitter. Learn how to use Hootsuite.com. Learn powerful automation tricks to save time.

Facebook – Set up a Facebook page for your business. Learn how to engage people on your page. Get people to write on your wall and start discussions. Learn how to automatically bring in your RSS or blog feed.

See you there!

Courtenay Pitcher, Social Media Workshop Presenter

Import a blog to Facebook and update Twitter to Facebook and LinkedIn

While training a group of professionals yesterday about social media, these questions were popular. I've linked to their answers:

How to import your blog or RSS feed into Facebook.

How to update Twitter from Facebook and Facebook from Twitter.

How to import Twitter to LinkedIn.

Thanks for reading,

Courtenay

Slideshow - How Social Media Can Help Your Career

This slideshow describes what social media is, some of the various types (Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Blogs), statistics and how they can help your career.

How Social Media Can Help Your Career

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Grow Your Business With Social Media - Workshop - Vernon - April 17

Grow Your Business With Social Media
A Workshop With Courtenay Pitcher

Saturday, April 17, 2010 - 8:30 to Noon
Schubert Centre - 3505 30th Ave.  - Vernon, BC

For members and future members of Vernon Women in Business

$20 for members.

RSVP by April 10, 2010.

Register for the workshop.

8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.         Networking and Registration
9:00 to 12:00                       Workshop

Laptops are welcome. We will be working live on the internet. Wireless access provided.

Topics will include:

LinkedIn - Learn how to network with LinkedIn for advancing your career or small business. Create a LinkedIn profile, get and give recommendations, connect your LinkedIn profile to Twitter, customize your website link, start or join a group, share your blog or rss feed.

Blogs – You’ll see how cheap and easy it is to begin blogging. Learn how to post articles, photos and YouTube videos to your blog. Learn what a category cloud is. Understand why you should comment on other blogs to promote your business. Learn why blogging can leverage your marketing, earn trust, clients and credibility.

Twitter – Set up a profile, tweet, retweet, direct message, reply, customize your Twitter background, and schedule tweets. How to brand yourself using Twitter, increase traffic to your blog or website, build relationships and increase your profile. Learn how to use Hootsuite. Learn powerful automation tricks to save time.

Facebook – Set up a Facebook Fan page for your business. Learn how to engage people on your Fan Page. Get people to write on your wall, start discussions, and automatically bring in your RSS or blog feed.

For more information, contact me or Cindy Bertrand, Director of Education for VWIB education@vwib.com

Hope to see you there!

Courtenay Pitcher, Social Media Coach