Check your LinkedIn notifications to grow your business!

 

One action that is easy to overlook on LinkedIn is notifications, which you can locate under the “Notifications” tab at the top of your home page. This is where LinkedIn posts items that it considers not worthy of sending you full-fledged messages.

Items under Notifications include:

• Comments to your posts and articles (or those that you commented on) so that you can converse with responders
• Company posts from organizations that could be potential leads for your business
• Event announcements
• Notifications of new people who have followed your company page (you’ll only see these if you are your company page’s administrator). Don’t have a free company page? Click Work and then “Create a Company Page” to launch one
• News posts on topics of interest to you. Express interest in topics by typing something like #executiveleadership into the search box and then “Follow”
• Suggestions for people and company pages to follow
• Teasers about posts made by people with whom you normally respond to their posts
• Articles that LinkedIn thinks you might want to see from Bill Gates and other influencers
• Group posts from LinkedIn groups that you’ve joined
• Encouragements to congratulate connections who have job anniversaries, promotions, birthdays, etc.
• News and posts from companies that you follow
• Job recommendations and requests to share job openings
• Offers and tips from LinkedIn 

You can opt out of certain notifications by clicking “Notifications” and then View settings. So, keep up with notifications! It will make you more active and findable on LinkedIn.

The bottom line: Use LinkedIn notifications to find leads, grow your business, and support your clients and prospects!

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