Set a goal as to who the people are that you want to look at your profile; what are their titles? Make sure that you're connected to them. Make sure that you're messaging them, make sure that you're engaging with them, and make sure that you're posting and that they can see your posts. And that's really the key, posting, engaging, and messaging daily.

One of my recent articles is "Not Sure What To Say in the Comments? Want Dozens of Ideas for Comments That You Can Build?" So just have a list, and here's what I tell people. Here is a list of things that you can say. "What a great post, thank you for sharing. "I love this, it's amazing, "you're outstanding, yes, I agree. "Following this, I appreciate your post, "Yes, it's valuable."

I've never had anybody get mad at me for tagging them in posts on LinkedIn because I do it in a classy way. I tag people that are in my photos.I tag people that have relevant opinions to share. I tag people who I'm showing gratitude towards or that have left me a testimonial.

When you tag people that you actually have a relationship with, it's not a problem.

It's still worth using LinkedIn even if you know for a fact that your ideal client is not on LinkedIn because the people that are on LinkedIn know your ideal client off LinkedIn. You see, the purpose of LinkedIn is not to sell to your ideal client, but it's to build a relationship with people that actually know your ideal clients. So if you have a network of 200, 300, 500, 1000 people that know you, like you and trust you, chances are, those people have an offline relationship with your ideal target market.

Some people say that there is a difference in terms of exposure when you're using tools. I haven't seen a difference.

It's important to customize your URL on LinkedIn is because you wanna have a URL that's clean and elegant and shows that you actually customized it. 

1. Somebody that you already know

2. Somebody that you'd like to get to know

3. Somebody that you can possibly do business with, or can refer business to you.

4. Somebody who mentioned that they are a fan of your content. 

Three most important things:

1. Photo
2. Name
3. Headline

The first thing that I like to do when I connect with somebody is say thank you for connecting with me on LinkedIn. So, even before he connected with me on LinkedIn, my connection request message was, thanks for checking out my profile, would love to get to know you, let's connect on LinkedIn. Thank you for connecting with me on LinkedIn. And it's just gratitude, right, you're just greeting the person.