L2R Raleigh Addington, Kim Hughes GC, Christina Schmid GC (on behalf of husband who died), Johnson Beharry VC, Gareth Wood MC, Jon Davey FB
Picture of our heros and little old me just before the inaugural Tickets for the Troops Stakes at Windsor Racecourse on 16th May 2011.
It’s funny, when you meet a celeb you go yeah, hi, can I have a photo… when you meet heros there’s little to say but thank you.
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LinkedIn Midsummer Workshop
Come and find out why over 100m business people worldwide, 6m in the UK and over 127,000 within a 10 mile radius of Windsor consider LinkedIn to be the pre-eminent business networking platform online. A place where professionals have the ability to connect, develop their sales and market themselves, their skills, services and products.
Find out more…
http://www.howtouselinkedin.co.uk
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Using LinkedIn for business, Windsor 17th May 2011
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http://www.howtouselinkedin.co.uk
In the meantime we’ll add a few comments below during the day and please feel free to join in…
Enjoy these LinkedIn workshop testimonials from today…
LinkedIn workshop testimonial Margaret Haynes OFAS
Social Media LinkedIn testimonial
LinkedIn training workshop testimonial by Raleigh Addington
Jazz mouse’s Paul Fawcus talks acoustics over lunch in Windsor
Thank you.
If you would like to know more then please call 01753 852904.
| Article Categories: | Business Blogging,Business Networking,Facebook,LinkedIn,Social Media Events,Social Media News,Social Networking,Twitter,Uncategorized,Video & YouTube |
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How to Use LinkedIn for Business workshop
17th May 2011
The MacDonald Windsor Hotel
9:30am – 4:00pm
09:30 Registration
10:00 LinkedIn: Getting the Foundations in place
(Creating a powerful Personal Profile & Company Pages)
11:30 Questions
12:00 Social Media Directors Networking Lunch
13:00 Developing Connections, Prospects and Visibility on LinkedIn
(Using the tools develop your network, marketing and sales)
14:30 Questions & tea
15:00 Additional networking tools LinkedIn offers
15:30 Questions
16:00 Close
How to Use LinkedIn for Business workshop Windsor
How to Use LinkedIn for Business
Come and find out why over 100m business people worldwide, 6m in the UK and over 120,000 within a 10 mile radius of Windsor consider LinkedIn to be the pre-eminent business networking platform online. A place where professionals have the ability to connect, develop their sales and market themselves, their skills, services and products.
The workshop is based on two core “how to” sessions consisting of 90 minute presentations, combining information slides and online demonstration.
The morning session introduces LinkedIn and focuses on how to get the key elements in place from which you can build a platform for you and your business within the site. We look at setting up and making the most of your personal profile, your company profile as well as looking at the settings to ensure privacy and allow you to benefit fully from the site. This is followed by a 30 minutes Q & A.
At mid-day we’ll enjoy a networking lunch and connect with others at the Social Media Directors LinkedIn workshop.
After lunch our focus moves to how you can best use LinkedIn to find the right connections for you and your business. This session will concentrate on core business building functionality through proactive targeting of contacts and prospects, increasing your own visibility and branding across the site and ensuring that you can use the tools available to achieve business success. There will be a further opportunity to ask questions.
We’ll touch on:
• Why LinkedIn is an increasingly key business tool
• How to get the most out of LinkedIn
• Key considerations when creating a Profile which works
• Developing your network and integrating your current one
• How to best connect with people (and how not to)
• Tools on LinkedIn to push you and your business
• Targeting prospects using the Advanced Search and other tools
• LinkedIn applications making your life easier
• A recommended weekly LinkedIn workout
• … and more…
Booking your seat
Since we are all at different levels of awareness as regards the full range of business generation tools and services offered by the LinkedIn platform, we offer the opportunity for you to join us for part of the day or the full day.
If you are just interesting in getting your profile right then need to dash off and put it into action then option A is for you. Should you feel you have that covered and wish to get a better feel for the business opportunities that lie within, you may just want to join us for the afternoon session, option B. If you feel comfortable with LinkedIn and would simply like to join us for a quality networking lunch then please do 
On the other hand if you recognise that technology is just the platform and that connecting with people in real time is just as, if not more, important then please join us for the full day. If you knew of LinkedIn in the early days and see it as a place to drop you CV then it has moved on and perhaps you will learn some good pointers from the morning session.
Lunch will be amongst like minded business people, interested in growing their business and happy to invest in business development ideas, after all this course ain’t cheap
During the afternoon and we’ll be adding some meat on the bones and showing you how to work with the gatekeepers to ensure you are talking to the right connections.
Thank you.
Jon Davey
01753 852904
A – A.M. Making the most of your LinkedIn profile £75
B – P.M. Finding the right connections on LinkedIn £99
C – Social Media Directors 3 course networking lunch £45
D – Full day package A, B & C £175
YouTube – getting more social
YouTube is getting more sophisticated – and more social – if the latest elements that the video sharing site have built in are anything to go by! No bad thing, I might add, as video (in one form or another) should certainly be an integral component of most social media programmes today.
In addition, we shouldn’t forget that it is also taking an increasingly visible role when it comes to the search engines results particularly after the changes Google made earlier in the year which allows us to subdivide the search results according to the type of information that we are interested in, blogs, images, news items, videos, forum posts etc.
So what are some of the key elements which makes YouTube such an important element when businesses are looking at an overall social media campaign? …
| Article Categories: | Business Networking,Video & YouTube |
| Article Tags: | Social Media, Social Media Tools, Social Networking, YouTube |
Your Social Media home online
There has been an ongoing theme – to be honest, for quite a while now - resurfacing at various intervals, about the imminent death of blogging, generally to be replaced it seems with the social media tools of the moment such as Facebook and Twitter.
For a small minority, I would agree that this may well be on the cards. The ability to connect with people using little bitesized chunks of information is tempting and may seem easier than sitting down and writing something longer than the typical “update”. However, for the vast majority, and particularly businesses looking to use social media as a tool to reach their customers – shouldn’t we all be? – I would say that this prediction is premature in the extreme.
Indeed, with social media now firmly ensconced among the more established marketing and communications tools, I would suggest that not only will we not see a decline in the role of blogging, we will actually see it grow in importance. If you have a moment, then let me explain why – I guarantee that it’ll be worthwhile. …
| Article Categories: | Business Blogging,Business Networking,Social Media Thoughts,Social Networking |
| Article Tags: | Business Blogging, Facebook, LinkedIn, Online Marketing, Social Media, Twitter |
