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Optimise your LinkedIn Profile

guest — Fri, 27 May 2011 17:05:44 +0000

LinkedIn is one of the top five most popular social networking web sites and the world’s biggest network of professional people. The site has more than 100-million users, making it an exceptionally good resource for people looking for jobs, people looking for people to hire, for business professionals and more.

Anyone can sign up for an account at LinkedIn, but for it to be an effective tool, it is essential to create a good, professional profile. That way you will find that you will connect more easily with other people and others will connect more effectively with you.

Here are some tips to help you optimise and improve your LinkedIn profile and make it work for you.

Complete your profile. This might sound strange, but people often sign up with LinkedIn and then don’t complete their profiles. This will defeat the object since it will look completely UN-professional, when the aim is to create a professional identity online. LinkedIn points out to users that those with a complete profile have a 40% better chance of being found when others search the site.
Use a photograph. If you are using a professional site, what’s the point of looking anonymous? While many people on LinkedIn don’t bother with photographs, you will get better results if you do. Furthermore, a picture that has been taken professionally will tend to make you look more professional. People will also be more likely to remember you, because they have seen what you look like. A photograph will also make you appear more trustworthy than a person whose image is blank.
Use a good headline. Most businesses create a mission statement and a short motto. At very least create a motto and use it as a persuasive headline that will make people choose you. For example, Kate King: I can help you grow your business.
Share your web site urls. There is no point in having a web site if you don’t use every opportunity to share it with potential customers and clients. LinkedIn allows you to list up to three urls and you can customize these by choosing the “Other” category when you are in the Edit Profile section of the site.
Show your testimonials. Whether you call them references, recommendations or simply feedback, testimonials go a long way to persuading people to choose your products or services. So don’t be shy to ask people who like what you have done to give you a written testimonial.
Add a video clip. On LinkedIn it is easy to add a video presentation, so take advantage of this option. All you have to do is go to Google Presentations which you will find under “More” in the toolbar which is at the top of your Profile page. Once you have added the video application you can simply follow their instructions on how to create a personal presentation.
Promote your skills and experience. Identify and define your skills and experience accurately. Use relevant keywords so that people can find you – like “writing” or “web design” – and make sure your grammar and spelling are correct.
Write a summary that shows you are professional. A professional summary will be short and to-the-point to convince your potential customers and clients to use your services. Focus on what you can do for others as well as what they might be able to do for you. Also make a concise list of all your specialties that is easy to read.
Stay involved. Once you have created a LinkedIn profile, use it. Update it regularly and communicate with anyone who bothers to communicate with you.
Participate in groups. LinkedIn offers the opportunity for its members to join groups and become involved. Make the effort to get involved in discussion groups and to offer advice and support to other members.

The more effort you put into creating a professional profile on LinkedIn, the more you will benefit in the long run.

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Start Using Twitter to Drive More Traffic to Your Website

guest — Mon, 23 May 2011 16:45:58 +0000

Twitter is one of the latest and greatest web 2.0 apps and a social media site that can help you to get tons of traffic in few days. Unlike most of the other places you can get traffic for free. It has become top most popular social media website that is being used for the traffic development. You might need a couple of hours to get familiar with the basic functionality of Twitter and of some of the extras it has but you can harness its power, even if you don’t know it very well.

At the start people were a little hesitant as to use twitter but when people started talking about it they started to gain interest in learning about it. As people got aware about its different features they acquired interest and started to use it.

Twitter also provide you microblogging platform, where you can post your short massages to friends and followers. But you have to be very specific about number of characters to be used in a message because there are restrictions on the number of characters in a message that you can send. Therefore, you need to be concise in your Tweets and use your space wisely.

Twitter Traffic Tips

Here are some steps to be followed to make best use of twitter that would help you to drive more traffic to your website:

Sign up and create a profile – in your profile you can show people what all you are doing, include information that is relevant to your site.
Follow targeted people – you should always follow people those can be proved helpful to you, some of those who you know will surly like your product.
Update your tweets regularly- you should always keep on updating your tweets so that people can know that you are a regular participator of it.
Use link on your tweets – you should always try to use link on your updated tweets and those links should navigate you to your site you are working for.
Post an eye-catchy image – it can be a logo of your company or any other attractive or funny image, it is not necessary that it should be your picture only.
Display tweets on your website – you can also display twitter updates on your website.
Regular participation will help you grow each day – once you have a good list of followers and are updating tweets it will just help you grow more and more.
Using Echofon plug-in – you can always make use of echofon which more convenient and you will be aware of all the updates being done.

It one of the most interesting ways to increase traffic of your site, as you just need to create a list of good followers rest all work is done by them. But make sure when you create follow list you only add those people who have test and preference in your business. Just tweet about every little activity being done by you. In order to build relationship strong and expect it continue to flourish you need to constantly connect with people and have to keep their interest alive. You have to provide stuff or some information that people are looking for.

In Nutshell I would say twitter is a great way to drive traffic but it is much, much more than that. There is a tremendous amount of potential to drive even more traffic from twitter to your website. You just need to tap into it.

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Integrate Your LinkedIn Professional Network with Microsoft Outlook

Yogesh Gautam — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:22:00 +0000

If you are Microsoft Outlook user, it is good news for you. Now you can integrate your LinkedIn Professional Network right within your Microsoft Outlook Inbox. LinkedIn and Microsoft have launched the beta version of this feature recently.

Integrate LinkedIn Account with Microsoft Outlook

To start leveraging your professional network within Microsoft Outlook you need to download the latest version of the Outlook Social Connector from here. This download requires Outlook 2003, 2007 or 2010 to work. After installing the Outlook Social Connector, download the LinkedIn Outlook Connector and install it. Then restart the Microsoft Outlook and follow the instructions to connect your LinkedIn account to Outlook.

When it install completely, you will see a LinkedIn folder appear in your Outlook. This folder aggregates information from your LinkedIn account and your Outlook contacts. You can see these contacts in business card format. It includes the contact’s Title, Photo and e-mail address.

Integrate LinkedIn Account with Outlook

Access and Track Your Connection in Your Inbox

This feature allows you to see the latest LinkedIn activities and profile photo from any connections that send you an e-mail. You can tract the activities of your LinkedIn connections.

Send E-mails to you Connection from Outlook

It allows you to send e-mails to your LinkedIn connection directly from Outlook. Just type the name of your LinkedIn connections in Outlook’s “To:” box, Outlook will fill the e-mail id automatically.

Build your LinkedIn Professional Network

You can send an invitation to connect from any Outlook e-mail, just click on the green “Add” icon next to any email sender to invite to join your network.

Follow Indian Celebrities at Twitter

Yogesh Gautam — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:09:00 +0000

Twitter is growing very fast around the world. Everyone is posting anything whatever in their minds. Some People use twitter as promotional tool and some people use it for fun and education. Everyone on the net creating user at Twitter. Students, professionals, businessmen, celebrities, advocates, writers, musicians and many more. You can find any type of people on Twitter around the world.

Twitter is also popular in India and there are lots of Indian users available at Twitter. I am listing some most popular Indian celebrities users. You can follow these celebrities.

Akshay Kumar @AkshayKumar (Bollywood Actor)
Shah Rukh Khan @IMSRK (Bollywood Actor)
Priyanka Chopra @PriyankaChopra (Bollywood Actress)
Mallika Sherawat @MallikaLA (Bollywood Actress)
Gul Panag @GulPanag (Bollywood Actoress, Animal Lover, Adventurer)
Karan Johar @KJohar25 (Bollywood Director)
Vir Sanghvi @VirSanghvi (Journalist, TV anchor)
Barkha Dutt @BDutt (Editor, Anchor-Journalist at NDTV)
Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor (Former UN Under-Secretary General, Minister of State for External Affairs, Govt of India)

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Twitter Launched Twitter List Widget for Blogs or Websites

Yogesh Gautam — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:33:00 +0000

Twitter launched a new List widget for blogs or web sites. Twitter added Lists feature in twitter last month. It is a beautiful and good widget. You can customized it according to your blog or web site look and add it, it easy to use. You can add this widget on your blog that displays a list of which you want to display.

You can choose any list made by you or any other twitter user (public list). Just type the user name and click on Find lists buttons. In few second you can find the lists of that users, give a title and caption. You can test it by clicking on Test Setting buttons. The other options of this widget are Preferences, Appearance and Dimensions. Just set it as you like and click on Finish & Grab Code button and copy the code and paste it on your blog or web site where you want to display this widget. You can find this widget at http://twitter.com/goodies/widget_list page.

You can follow me at Twitter to get updates @YogeshGautam

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Facebook Launched New Live Share Counts Buttons with Analytics

Yogesh Gautam — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:55:00 +0000

It is a good news for all, Facebook launched a new live Share Counts Button with Analytics facility. Now you can add a Facebook sharing button with counter at your website or blog. It is very helpful for sharing the content on facebook, it is also has a new set of analytics. Anyone can share the articles, video, audio or images with their friends on Facebook by the help of this button after adding this sharing button on your website. It is very easy to adding this button in to your website. No coding knowledge required just copy the code and paste the code in your website where you want to add this button.

If you want to add this button in blogger blog just search the in the code and add the button code just above this tag.

Each week, users share more than 2 billion pieces of content on Facebook and most of that sharing is facilitated by Facebook share count buttons across the web on websites like YouTube, Wall Street Journal and Photobucket.
- Facebook Developers Blog

I have also written a post on Facebook Share Count Button of fbshare.me. But New version of Facebook Share Count Button‘s code is available at Facebook Widgets Page.

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FaceBook Share Count Button for Blogs

Yogesh Gautam — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:51:00 +0000

Now FaceBook share count button available for your blog. It displays the number of times the current page has been shared on facebook. It is look like a popular Retweet button. It allows visitors to share it themselves on facebook.

Main Attraction:

It displays the number of shares (displays Facebook logo when 0 shares)
Allow to track shares from the button using awe.sm API key or fbshare.me links
This button is available in Small and Large button size.
You can add Google Analytics parameters to fbshare.me links

How to add in blogs:
If you have WordPress Blog you can download plugin from here. Facebook Share Count Button Plugin

Steps for adding button at Blogger/Blogspot
Login to Dashboard
Click on Layout -> Click on Edit HTML and check “Expand Widget Templates”.
(Backup your template before changing or apply anything in codes.)

Search the following tag in code:

Add this code in just above the

It will display the button on above of the post if you want to display it at the bottom of the post, paste this code below the

Customization in code
You can set it right in

if you want to display it at right side of the post.
size – The size of the button you can set ‘large’ or ‘small’ default is ‘large’ if not specified.
url – Add URL of the page which you want to share on Facebook, it will share current page by default if not specified.
title – The Page Title which you want to share, By default it take the current page’s title.
google_analytics - If no awesm_api_key specifed, sets whether fbshare.me links have Google Analytics parameters added: ‘true’ or ‘false’ defaults is ‘false’ if not specified.

An example of a customized code:

For more information visit fbshare.me

Use Instant Messenger as a Google, Yahoo, Bing and Twitter Search Engine

Yogesh Gautam — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:21:00 +0000

Millions of Internet users perform lots of searches on the web using different Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc daily. Google is top search engine and most of the time we use Google. But it is not enough sometimes. So we try other search engines like Yahoo or Bing. It takes time to opening a new tab and loading sites. But now you can access multiple Search Engines right from your IM without having to go to the sites. It is possible by help of “sbot”.

Sbot support multiple Search Engines (Google, Yahoo!, Bing) and Twitter search right now. To using Sbot you need to add Sbot as your friend on Gtalk, Yahoo Messenger or Live Messenger and start searching.

GTalk – sbot@bot.im
Yahoo Messenger – searchbot@ymail.com
MSN Messenger – searchbot@live.com

As you add Sbot to your IM buddy list, you can start conversing with it. You can start searching by sending message to Sbot in the following format.

To perform Google search send – g search keyword
To perform Yahoo search send – y search keyword
To perform Bing search send – b search keyword
To perform Twitter search send – t search keyword

You can send “help” to bot for usage instructions. If you are working and need to read your reply on twitter you does not need to open Twitter you can check your replies by just sending message “t @YogeshGautam“.

Note: It will display first 4 results for Google because of the API limitations.

Earn Money By Twitter – Sponsored Tweet Concept

Yogesh Gautam — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:11:00 +0000

Twitter is the one of the most popular web site in the world. If your are using twitter and if you have good numbers of followers in your twitter account, it is a good news for you. Now you can earn money by twitter. Yes! It is true. It is possible by Sponsored Tweets. Sponsored Tweet is a new twitter advertising platform that connects advertisers with tweeters. Advertisers can create sponsored conversions on Twitter. tweeters can earn money for spreading the word.

This concept is known as a Pay Per Tweets (PPT). It allows the advertisers to create campaigns and select, invite and approve tweeters to participate in their sponsored campaigns on other side Tweeters can set their pay rate and find to tweet on befalf of advertisers. Tweeters can get paid per tweet or/and per click basis.

Tweeters can set their charge per tweet, charge per click, ad unit preferences, add keywords and notification settings. You can earn money by referring others to this program. You can use the links and badges on your referrals program page to spread the word about sponsored Tweets. When a tweeter signs up using this links or badges you will receive 10% of Sponsored Tweets portion of revenue.

So Don’t wait Register and start earning money today. For more information you can follow me at twitter @YogeshGautam

StumbleUpon Launched URL Shortening Service Supr

Yogesh Gautam — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:54:00 +0000

StumbleUpon’s URL shortening service Su.pr is now available for everyone on the net. Supr is a URL shortner service which is provided by StumbleUpon. There are dozens of other URL shorter services on internet that convert a long URL into a very short URL like Bit.ly, ow.ly and TinyURL because short URL is easy to share on Twitter, Facebook, email and other services.

If you want to use Supr you need a StumbleUpon’s user id. It allows you to login in Supr by SU id. You can add your twitter and Facebook id in setting option of Supr if you want to post updates or share a link directly from Supr.

Advantages of Supr

It shortens any URL in few characters.
You can post updates and share any page on Facebook and Twitter directly from Supr.
It gives you facility to thumbing up and reviewing on StumbleUpon itself.
Su.pr offers real time analytics that provides you the separates report of clicks from stumbles, displays accounts who thumbed up on StumbleUpon and retweets at twitter.
You can Schedule your updates.
Supr suggest the best posting time to maximize traffic.
You can get short URLs on your own domain like http://yourdomain.com/abcd.
You can use WordPress Plugin to easily post link to Twitter and Facebook It allows bloggers to create search engine friendly URL with 301 redirects.

For More information Visit Su.pr