This article originally ran at theDigitalFA. You can visit it here; and be sure to check out the site – it’s full of great ideas on building a digital presence for financial professionals (and the rest of us). People often think that the power of your LinkedIn network is your direct connections. But actually, […]
How to Ask For Help On LinkedIn
One of the challenges with using social media for business is that it’s so new. LinkedIn has over 175 million professionals on it, but it’s not even 10 years old yet. It makes perfect sense that we’re still grappling with how to actually use the platform in our day to day business lives, because in […]
The Magic Number of Networking Connections
I often get asked about the ideal number of connections you should have in your professional network. The topic often gets muddled because our first impulse is to equate networking success directly with the number of connections we have. I’m here to tell you that you don’t need a huge number contacts to have networking work for […]