THINKing

LinkedIn Recruiting

We will talk today about using LinkedIn for recruiting purposes in the final installment of our series Are You LinkedIn?

LinkedIn is more evolutionary than revolutionary. It is primarily a tool to help employers fill the pipeline quicker with qualified candidates, and a tool to help the candidate stand out above the crowd.

LinkedIn – Business Development

business development – n : business function focused on strategy, creating strategic partnerships and long-term relationships with suppliers and customers. The business development function within a business can be thought of as a jack-of-all-trades position focused on strategic deal-making with an eye toward increasing sales and expanding the company’s long-term business success or scope.

Are You LinkedIn?

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series about how to use LinkedIn for B2B purposes. We are preparing this for the Bank of Commerce’s School of Commerce.

Are You Thankful?

Are you thankful? What are you thankful for? On this day before Thanksgiving – my favorite holiday – I wanted to take the opportunity to give you my “thankful list”.

As you might imagine, there are the usual suspects: my health, my wife, my kids, my grandchildren, a long list of very good friends, my clients, and the freedom we have in this country.

Do These 10 Things Today

Are you looking for ways to build your business? Sometimes we become paralyzed because there seems to be so many things we could and should be doing to market our companies. Longtime readers know I’m typically a strategy first guy, but sometimes you just need to do something to get  things rolling. So, here are 10 easy marketing ideas you can start on today:

Time To Plan

There’s usually some downtime at work around the holidays. What are you doing with your break? I’m using mine to meet with clients and prospects and to complete my planning for 2010. Do you have a marketing plan for the year? What new items are you incorporating into your plan?

Monologue Marketing

Monologue marketers – thankfully – are dying off, but there still are too many. What’s a monologue marketer? Here’s an analogy:

Someone comes up to you at a business event and says, “Hi, I’m Bob.”

D.A.N.C.E. With Me

Recently, a client asked what he could do to help my business, but I wasn’t ready with the answer. A lot of us probably miss these opportunities because we don’t think through what we need and how to respond when someone offers to help promote us.

Links – 4/9/2009

Today’s post is for sharing a few things I’ve come across in the past couple of days, and to resurrect a post or two from our dusty archives that speak to job-hunting. Let’s get going:

Even In Recession, There Are Jobs In Media

How Not To Get A Job With Social Networking

New Business 2009

Are you out looking for new business? Who isn’t? I wrote a series on the topic some time back. You may want to check it out if you missed it the first time around.

New Business Primer – Part 1 – Introduction to the new business primer.