Personal branding and LinkedIn insights for executives
Judgment is the part you cannot automate
Imagine going to a doctor who takes your symptoms, types them into a chatbot, and reads you back whatever it says. You'd probably ask why you paid a consultation fee for that.
Your connection count isn't doing what you think it's doing
Let’s say you come back from a conference with 200 business cards. You file them in a drawer and never call a single one. Ask yourself who’s in there a month later, and you couldn’t tell me.
Your LinkedIn post is only half the strategy
Picture two people at the same industry dinner. One of them stands up, gives a sharp toast but doesn't speak again for the rest of the night.
LinkedIn company page vs founder profile: what should you post where?
There is still a lot of confusion about what belongs on a LinkedIn company page and what belongs on a founder’s LinkedIn profile.
Why some people sound smarter than they are
I have always been fascinated by people who can make a completely ordinary point sound like an intellectual breakthrough.
How much does LinkedIn ghostwriting cost, and what should the fee include?
It is a little like asking what a T-shirt costs. You can buy one for $2 or $3,000. Both are T-shirts. The price alone tells you very little about what you are getting.
LinkedIn’s Copy and Paste Problem
Two days after we published a LinkedIn post for a client, I saw it again in my feed under somebody else's name.
If you can’t say it out loud, don’t write it down
In a marketing class in Paris, our professor banned the use of artificial intelligence. Every slogan we wrote had to come out of our own mouths first, before we wrote it down.
Consistency is the most overrated word in LinkedIn advice
Someone I know lost his job almost a year ago. Since then, he’s posted on LinkedIn nearly every day. He has kept going with a discipline very few people can sustain.
The cost of having nothing to say
Most LinkedIn posts blur together. You read one, scroll on and a minute later you have already forgotten what it said. Sounds familiar? You are not alone.
My grandfather asked me what personal branding is. Here’s what I told him.
Every afternoon at five o'clock, my grandfather waits for me for coffee.