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Weekly VA Marketing Tip: Link Up On LinkedIn

June 1st, 2009 by Cristina Favreau

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Welcome to this edition of Weekly VA Marketing Tip! This series is specifically designed to help virtual assistants avoid marketing insanity. Every Monday, my posts will prompt you to accomplish one specific marketing action to promote, brand or position your professional virtual business.

Implement these tips each week and I guarantee you’ll sustain your marketing momentum, increase credibility and visibility in your field, build stronger relationships, boost your ‘know, like and trust factor,’ get more ideal clients looking for you, and have a consistent marketing game plan for your virtual assistant business.

You might even start to like marketing!

Link Up On LinkedIn

This week’s marketing momentum booster is an easy one. But don’t dismiss it! It’s another way of displaying your expertise and gaining the Know, Like and Trust Factor — AND it’s free!

Sign in to your LinkedIn account
At the top of your screen, click on Answers.
Click on the Answer Questions tab.
Browse by category (right hand column).
Find 5 questions you can intelligently answer, directly relating to your niche market and/or your expertise.

Answer each question, with the goal of giving first. Don’t use this space as a blatant self-promotion. If you have written articles about the question at hand, you may post a link to your article.

That’s it — 5 answers. Make it a habit to repeat these steps a few times each week, and you’ll notice your visibility grow!

Let us know how it goes!

Have an awesome week.

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on 01 Jun 2009 at 10:47 AM Cindy Bidar

This is a wonderful tip. I honestly did not even know this existed on LinkedIn. Thanks for pointing it out!
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on 02 Jun 2009 at 9:45 AM mainebusiness

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on 02 Jun 2009 at 10:05 PM denisewillms

@Brainstormist You got me to finally login to my LinkedIn account and learn how to use it http://tinyurl.com/okcjhg Great post!

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on 04 Jun 2009 at 3:50 PM brainstormist

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on 05 Jun 2009 at 10:38 AM Gennia_TimeToGoVirtual

Thanks for your suggestion. Just posted an answer and will add that to my action plan.