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LinkedIn for Business

LinkedIn is a fantastic tool for creating, developing, and maintaining business relationships and opportunities. You can expand awareness of yourself and your business and demonstrate your skills and industry expertise in order to establish the trust necessary to establish new business relationships and ventures.

LinkedInOne of the reasons LinkedIn has become the preferred and trusted social media portal for professionals and business people is its “gated-access” approach, whereby you need either a pre-existing relationship or an introduction in order to initiate contact with someone.

LinkedIn is useful for

  • Finding high-quality job candidates
  • Finding new business opportunities
  • Scoping out the competition, customers and partners
  • Increasing your business visibility
  • Asking for advice and/or help from other business professionals

What businesses use LinkedIn for

  • Gaining introductions to useful business connections through mutual, trusted contacts
  • Finding business opportunities
  • To list jobs and search for potential candidates
  • To review a person’s profile before entering into a business relationship with them
  • Showcasing industry expertise and building awareness of their brand

How WSI can help

WSI can help you to use LinkedIn as valuable business tool by showing you how to:

  • leverage and optimise your profile
  • use your LinkedIn connections effectively
  • use Groups to maximum benefit
  • make the most of the Question and Answer section
  • explore whether LinkedIn Direct Advertising is right for your business
  • integrate LinkedIn with your other marketing

Call us today to discuss how we can help your business to get the most out of LinkedIn.

Fast Facts
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The number of adults who bought or ordered goods or services online in the UK within the last 12 months reached 31 million in 2010. These Internet shoppers represented 62 per cent of all adults. – ONS, Aug 2010

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Over 2/3 of UK consumers ages 14 and older—roughly 26 million people—bought goods, travel or other services online at least once per month in 2010 – eMarketer, Nov 2010

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83% of UK online shoppers use search engines to research a purchase. – eMarketer, Nov 2010

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Researching products and services is the second most popular online activity among Brits with 3 out of 4 UK internet users doing so – eMarketer, Sep 2010

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UK business to business ecommerce was worth £360 billion in 2009 – Boston Consulting Group, Oct 2010

Businesses dominated by inbound marketing have a 62% lower cost per lead than firms that do mostly outbound marketing – eMarketer, Mar 2011