Which of these common mistakes do you recognise that others have made...?

by hayfj2
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I suspect that some of you will can relate to one or some of these, and even recognise certain people that consistently make some of these mistakes, or faux pas...

Sometimes, I think people need to revisit their marketing modus operandi for i suspect that many...

1. take too much or give too much instead of agreeing a value exchange from the outset
2. are in such a financial mess, that pride, ego and fear of failing is preventing them from trying new things and testing new approaches to try and better the situation they are in
3. connect with people on LI because they think their photograph is attractive. (Worse still, leaving suggestive messages for them to read. Oh no! You don't do you?)
4. leave testimonials for people expecting a testimonial in return. (I rated you good, so now rate me - no. no. no. that's not how it works.)
5. Leaving testimonials that have nothing to do with experiencing the products, services or solutions the other person offers
6. Have a LI Profile that focusses too much on their dog, cat or which motor vehicle or cast member of The Matrix they are and not how they can specifically help others.
7. Have a LI profile that doesn't qualify the people that visit and whether they fit the criteria of an ideal client. (Criteria that you can offer to your advocates to generate even more referrals)
8. doing an amazing amount of work for free for people who don't return the favour or honour their promises and people end up questioning whether it's you (believe me, it's not you!).
9. so concentrated on being nice, getting liked, they're forgetting why they're on a business networking site.
10. Use less than 5% of the features on this amazing platform, because they got so much business, they're eating steak every night for dinner - yeah right
11. not writing any posts to demonstrate their knowledge, wisdom, positive or negative experiences in their life, craft or field and sharing the lessons learned
12. Many are too serious, too "literal", too "square", need to slacken your tie, get laid, get drunk, or just learn to laugh at themselves now and again. Learn to have fun!
13. They don't test different headlines, subject lines or status updates, in fact they don't use any of the linkedin apps for they think they're a complete waste of time
14. They get all obsessive about Google and including keywords in their headlines and subject lines (ha ha, you werent expecting that one from me)
15. All they do at 121s is talk about what they know, what they have and what they do, taking up to 80% of the meeting focussed on themselves instead of the other party
16. Many simply don't follow up people who visit their profile for fear of being told you are a spammer or snake oil salesman.
17. They attack people who do, even calling them "Relentless self promoters" - Ironic isn't it
18. They don't embrace people who PM them or skype them
19. Many only use the phone to call people up that they're fed up receiving their "spam" having signed up to connect with them in their network and want to hear from them.
20. They're very insular in their networking, and work in a very tight clique, or posse, only mixing and networking with the same small circle of people and wonder why their network isn't growing, and why it doesn't work.

can you think of any "others" to add to the list?

#common #made #mistakes #recognise
  • Profile picture of the author SashaLee
    I'd add:

    Not getting off your hiney and actually doing SOMETHING
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