LinkedIn: Stop Connecting. Start Following.
On LinkedIn, stop ‘connecting’, start following, or being followed. It makes a lot more sense when personal branding is the objective.
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On LinkedIn, stop ‘connecting’, start following, or being followed. It makes a lot more sense when personal branding is the objective.
Do not confuse Astronomer’s masterful effort in attention management with crisis management. The audience for both is vastly different.
As someone who has never used any LinkedIn ‘hack’ and have seen dwindling reach in the last few months, here’s how I recommend dealing with it.
Companies are spending money on LinkedIn to promote the careers of their marketing teams. Bizarre? But that’s what is happening!
A ‘factory visit’ seems to be the post-crisis campaign holy grail! After Cadbury’s ‘worms’, Coca-Cola ‘pesticide’, Dabur Honey ‘adulteration’, now… Bournvita ‘sugar’!
LinkedIn’s ‘brand partnership’ label is deceptive and misleading, and is already being misused by Indian LinkedInfluencers against ASCI’s guidelines.
Yet another so-called ‘viral marketing’ campaign that uses a blatant lie as its main, cost-free tool. Yes, the latest YesMadam campaign follows the spectacular misfire by the agency Schbang and Poonam Pandey earlier this year. I had written about why that campaign…