LinkedIn, Business Page or Personal Profile?
This question came up in the community yesterday and I thought it deserved its own post. Personal profile or business page on LinkedIn? My original take: if you are a solopreneur and you are the brand, your personal profile is enough. A business page makes more sense when you have a team, want to run ads, or are building something separate from your name. But then @Liisa Reimann dropped this in the comments and it changed my thinking a little. If you have your business or services listed on your personal profile and you do not have a business page claimed, that little logo next to your listing is a generic blue graphic. People click it. And when they do, they land in search results for others doing similar work. Not you. Your competitors. So at minimum, claim your business page. Even if you rarely post on it. It closes that gap and keeps people in your world instead of sending them elsewhere. Next week I'll be attending Michelle Raymond's session on LinkedIn Company Pages That Convert: The 5 Strategies Everyone Else Misses to brush up on my LinkedIn skills. And of course I'll be sharing more here from all my sessions Now I want to hear from you. Do you have a business page set up?