Consultants
Build your business as a consultant, demonstrate your areas expertise, and leverage your network.
As a consultant there is a seemingly never-ending pressure to bring in new business.
LinkedIn Helps
- Keep in touch and up to date with past and present clients and co-workers through Network Updates, Status, etc. One day they may be in position to hire you for a project.
- Make it easy for potential clients to find you in the service provider directory by getting recommended.
- Include your vanity URL in RFP responses, so potential clients can quickly and easily see common connections who can provide additional perspective.
- Connect with relevant professionals you meet while traveling who you think could be important contacts in the future. Don’t take the chance that you might lose their business card.
It can be difficult to find the right expert advice given that many projects are so far-reaching and complex.
Tap into the human capital within your firm, or within your network if you freelance, to quickly find experts/contractors when you need additional help.
LinkedIn Helps
- Use Advanced Search to find practitioners within your firm and in industry at-large that have the right expertise to round out your team.
- Vet external experts by steering towards those that have been previously used by your firm.
Manage your reputation in a credible, professional manner.
LinkedIn Helps
- Use LinkedIn Answers to demonstrate your expertise.
- Who you are connected to is a signal to relationships, and influential figures can help you project added credibility.
- Recommendations on your profile speak to the actual experience past colleagues and clients have had working with you.