Remember what it feels like when you get
too much peanut butter in your mouth at one time? Your tongue gets stuck and
you cannot seem to clear the stuff from the roof of your mouth! It takes
time…and patience…and lots of “spit juice”.
Without this combination, the peanut butter
would never move and your tongue would be stuck…forever!
Well…maybe not, but it sure would feel that
way.
For this reason many of us dislike peanut
butter with a passion, and vow never to go near the stuff again.
Could this be you with your LinkedIn?
Over the years I’ve noticed that over 70%
of my followers on LinkedIn are male. It
made me wonder why that is? After all, LinkedIn is the biggest and best online
platform for business on the internet. It was a puzzle to me why more business
women were not using it.
Here is what I discovered:
1. Women are busy,
very busy juggling their business, careers, family and aging parents.
2. When women get on
LinkedIn and start setting up a profile, they realize that it is going to take
some time, which they feel they do not have enough of in the first place, and
they leave, never to return.
3. Many women leave
the platform feeling frustrated, thinking they don’t have time for this, and
plan to revisit it sometime soon…which often never happens.
4. Many get all set up
with their profile and don’t know how to use it effectively, get frustrated and
leave it.
5. Others just leave
their LinkedIn profile sitting there, waiting for someone to find them.
For these reasons, I have discovered many
women, and a few men, wonder why LinkedIn is not working for them.
It’s like the peanut butter. Without the
“spit juice” and patience we will never conquer it.
Please reference my previous blog post,
“Why Should I Connect with You?”
Watch for more of my story
in “How to Avoid Being a Wall Flower.”
Got a LinkedIn question? Feel free to email me and I
will answer it in my next blog.
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Got a LinkedIn question? Feel free to email me and I
will answer it in my next blog.
Christine
Till
The
LinkedIn Marketing Mentress
1-780-904-9557
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