Welcome to this week’s episode of Extreme LinkedIn Profile Makeover. This week we’ll be getting to know Doug Hanna. Doug has been the business channel editor here at b5media for a little over a year. Meanwhile, he’s been working on a stealth-mode internet startup which is now taking up the bulk of his time. He’ll [...]
Welcome to this week’s episode of Extreme LinkedIn Profile Makeover, where we help LinkedIn users touch up their profiles to attract more business.
Our subject this week is Katie Felten. In case you don’t have access to Katie’s profile, here’s a PDF of it which has about 98% of what I’ll be covering.
Here are my thoughts [...]
Last week I announced the start of Extreme LinkedIn Profile Makeover, and the response was overwhelming. 13 people have already signed up, so it’s obvious I’m going to have to do it a little more frequently than monthly, as I had originally planned.
I also want to make clear that I hope this will become a [...]
UPDATE: This is no longer being offered. I leave the message in tact because I don’t believe in creating broken links.
In the 4+ years that I’ve been using LinkedIn, one thing I have learned for sure — one thing that crosses all philosophical approaches to using LinkedIn — is the value of a good profile. [...]
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