How to boost your LinkedIn profile in 5 minutes

Although this article is titled ‘How to boost your LinkedIn profile it 5 minutes’, it should this be re-titled, “Ere, guvnor, spare a few likes for a poor content creator?”

“Give before you receive”. “Serve before you sell” A wonderful mantra to live by. And on social media, this is magic beans.

Apparently 95% of people browse, lurk & don’t interact across all types of social media. 4% interact. Only 1% create.

Browsing, lurking & not interacting is absolutely fine. No problem at all. I’m sure we all do it at some times, including myself.

However, for the 1% of content creators like myself, interaction is our lifeblood. Our validation. Our success sign. Our drug hit. It makes it all worthwhile. Don’t get me wrong, I share content to help people, or to entertain them or to inform them. If they learn or are entertained without interacting, that’s fine. I’ve done my job. I’m serving my tribe.

However a simple ‘like’ or better still a ‘comment’ on LinkedIn (or a ‘retweet’, ‘quote tweet’ ‘share’ or ‘comment’ on Twitter) gives so much more to me. To you it might seem a nonchalant ‘nothing’. To me and my fellow creators it’s HUGE.

💥 “OMG, someone liked my post!”
💥 “Someone actually commented, amazing!”
💥 “Someone shared my tweet, that’s brilliant!”

And the brilliant thing? LinkedIn guru Nigel Cliffe says just interacting actually boosts YOUR LinkedIn profile. I assume that it helps on Twitter too. What a brilliant win-win! YOU get a profile boost – the author gets their kick.

I mainly use LinkedIn (connect with me here). So today I’m launching my LinkedIn promotion #5plus5in5.

It’s dead easy.

👍 Like 5 posts
🗨 Comment on 5 posts
⏳ But only take 5 minutes to do it.

That’s it. 5 minutes only. The upside to you is HUGE. (Obviously make your comment worthwhile) And of course, keep doing it daily. it’s only 5 minutes in your day, but it makes such a huge difference to everyone you interact with…. and YOU. This simple habit – Like 5 posts and comment on 5 posts, but control yourself to only taking 5 minutes will boost your LinkedIn profile.

You may also like to read ‘How to Win on LinkedIn‘.

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