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Have you ever been ghosted?

For any of you lost on the term “ghosted,” you’re not alone. My teenage nieces and nephews clued me in a few years ago that being ghosted means that someone stops communicating with you, went dark on you, radio silent, vanished, eaten by an alligator. Additional note for...

My husband and I switched up our usual Thai takeout restaurant recently. With the coconut curry soup starting off dinner with a bang, our anticipation of the upcoming flavors continued as we rounded the corner to each of our entrees. Much to our taste buds’ surprise and disappointment, not one, but ...

Resolve to spruce up your LinkedIn profile with fresh feedback.

We’re all familiar with the “New Year, New You” types of resolutions that crop up as January approaches. For 2019, why not apply a twist to that concept: instead of vowing to refresh your wardrobe or raise the bar on your workout regim...

I had the fortune of being interviewed by the well-respected Will Richardson, based in San Francisco, on his Richardson Financial podcast. Below is a brief of what we covered. Listen and share!

• Lindsey talks about LinkedIn as a business tool and why it is so important to be relevant in today’s di...

LinkedIn Learning has officially opened its virtual doors a year and a half after LinkedIn’s acquisition of Lynda.com. With more than 9,000 courses and 25 new courses added every week, LinkedIn Learning is aiming to be the preferred eLearning portal to close the global economy’s skills gap. This foc...

Proactively building your network takes intention.

According to LinkedIn, "Data about your relationships referring to connections is the acceptance rate of your connection requests. If a member sends too many invites and less people accept it, then it would impact the SSI." 
That's it? Or is it?

Wh...

We all know the sequence: Dating, proposing, wedding. The process of selling is not terribly different. With the likely exception of the new business deal fine print not reading: Till death do us part.

Use LinkedIn for ongoing touch points to engage your prospective clients while you are working towa...

Let's get one thing straight: It's called searching, not stalking.

If you have been a client, heard me speak at an event or read any of my articles, you know that I do not condone the use of the word stalking when using LinkedIn. It is not the right term for how I teach professionals how to use Linke...