This was a presentation talking about Social Teaming and how your profile on LinkedIn can be used to attract the ideal team based network. Then how you can use this to generate inbound referrals. This was delivered to a high powered networking group in Chicago.
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Dean DeLisle
• Founder and CEO of Forward Progress, Inc.
• Creator of Social Jack™
• Train and Coach over 2,000 people per month
• Trained and Coached over 100,000 in Social Network Skills
• Over 30 years in Business Coaching, Consulting, and Training, Call
Center, Internet, eMarketing, Event Management, Lead
Generation, Web Seminars, eLearning, eSelling
• Clients have included: Financial Services, Real Estate,
Professional Services, Legal, Accounting Manufacturing,
Telecommunications, Technical, Insurance, Agencies, Auto,
Retail, Banking, Educational , and Channel Sales…
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2015 LinkedIn™ Stats
• LinkedIn ™ Has Over 350 Million Members
• Average user has 240 “Connections”
• One degree from over 35,000 “Trusted Connections”
• Two degrees from over 3,200,000 “Trusted Connections”
• 160 Million unique visitors a month
• 1 million new members added per week
• 17.8 million members belong to groups
• 1.2 million comments and posts to groups weekly
• 2 billion people searches annually
• 2 million companies have a company page
OVER 1,000 to 1
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Your Personal Keywords
• What are you an expert in?
• How would your ideal prospect find you?
• What would they “yell” or “Google” to find you?
• What makes you different?
• What is your skill set?
Exercise:
1. Write 10 things in which you are an expert.
2. What terms would someone use to find you.
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Who We Are
• Social Jack™ is a Training and Coaching Platform
– Over 100,000 professional coached and trained
– Hundreds of online classes for small business owners
– Proven Small Business Community Builder
– Easy to use Micro-Learning System
– Mobile Coaching, Training, and App
• Owned by Forward Progress, LLC.
– Digital Marketing Specialists for over 12 Years
– Serving Insurance, Banking and Financial Services
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Small Business Opportunity
• 28,443,856 Small Businesses (Sba.gov, 2015 census)
• Current established company births exceeding exit rate of companies is a
trend we haven’t seen since 2007*
• U.S. small businesses employ 56.1 million of the nation’s private
workforce*
• In 2015, 90% of those who applied for a loan were approved*
• More than 50% of all enterprise workers will be self-employed by 2020*
*Source (The State of Small Business 2015 – Business.com)