Linkedin: How To Make Status Updates That Get You Noticed

Linkedin: How To Make Status Updates That Get You Noticed

Why:

Sharing status updates with your connections is a great way to provide valuable content to readers, engage customers and draw attention to your profile. All of which are factors that can generate leads. Quick Sprout reports that posting 20 status updates a month will help reach 60% of your unique audience monthly. A larger audience will lead to more opportunities for sales.

 

Linkedin Status

Linkedin Status

How:

According to LinkedIn, informative updates receive the highest engagement rate. If providing valuable content were easy, everyone would be doing it. Below are 4 techniques to provide informative and helpful status updates that are impactful:

  1. Post industry insights. Posting trends, research-backed predictions and observations and facts affecting the business landscape will position you as an expert within your field. 60% of users value these industry insights.
  2. Share company news. Keeping potential clients in the know with what your company is doing can help build trust. 53% of users are interested in company news.
  3. Encourage audience participation. Ask relevant questions and encourage people’s comments and opinions. Example: Who do you think will reach Mars first: Elon Musk, Richard Branson or Jeff Bezos?
  4. Include a form of media. Photos and videos attract viewers and allow for a 98% higher comment rate than a post of just text.
LinkedIn pro tip

LinkedIn pro tip

Everyone is winning when you are providing valuable content. Share status updates you would like to see and that are a good representation of your company.

Linkedin learning moment

Linkedin learning moment

 

 

 

For more tips on LinkedIn, check out my new book How To Sell on LinkedIn.

About the Author: Erik Qualman

Often called a Digital Dale Carnegie and The Tony Robbins of Tech, Erik Qualman is a #1 Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker that has spoken in 49 countries.

His Socialnomics work has been featured on 60 Minutes to the Wall Street Journal and used by the National Guard to NASA. His book Digital Leader propelled him to be voted the 2nd Most Likeable Author in the World behind Harry Potter's J.K. Rowling. Qualman is a sitting professor at Harvard & MIT's edX labs.

His latest book What Happens in Vegas Stays on YouTube is a Pulitzer Prize nominated work.
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