LinkedIn Premium is Worth It for Sales People [5 Reasons]

Last month, I made the switch and started paying for LinkedIn Premium. I’ve used it before, but they’ve added some new features, and I’ve gotten a little smarter in my business, so I’m giving it another go.
There is 1 primary reason, and 4 less important (to me) reasons to use LinkedIn Premium. Perhaps these will help you decide whether or not LinkedIn Premium is for you.
1: More introductions – I use LinkedIn to contact friends of friends. If I can get 1 introduction a day, from someone who already knows/likes/trusts me, that means 15-20 new people a month who I can add to my network, that I hand selected, that maybe 1 will do business with me.
2: Profile review – I can now right click on your profile and see your updates, I don’t have to paddle through the stream of crap to see them.
3: Improved search functionality and the ability to save more searches – I can search more effectively, with more fields that are searchable, and I can find what I want to find easier, and then save those searches. You get more when you pay for LinkedIn Premium.
4: Improved LinkedIn SEO – LinkedIn isn’t Google, and previously, it’s been a big mystery. Now, LinkedIn actually tells you words to add to your profile to rank better. Pretty cool if you ask me.
5: Ranking of my profile – I get to know how I stack up amongst my peers on LinkedIn, which doesn’t help my business, but it does feed my ego. This was a neat featu...

Source: Phil Gerbyshak - July 11, 2014 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Phil Gerbyshak Tags: LinkedIn Source Type: blogs