If you haven't quite found your excitement for getting started on LinkedIn in 2025, this episode is for you.
Key moments in this episode:
00:00 Reignite Your LinkedIn Passion
00:27 Understanding the LinkedIn Blues
03:55 Strategies to Clean Up Your Feed
05:59 Review and Build Your LinkedIn Community
07:57 Engage Through Direct Messages
10:39 Final Thoughts and Encouragement
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Feeling uninspired by LinkedIn.
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You are not alone.
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Let's bring back that LinkedIn lovin' feeling and make LinkedIn
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really work for you this year.
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G'Day everyone.
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As we start off the new year, I know that it's meant to be full of
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enthusiasm and optimism, but a quick vibe check around the platform.
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Many people on LinkedIn are feeling a bit meh, and that's the technical term for it.
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I think it's just because a lot of things changed last year.
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We got lots of pay to play features, the rise of AI taking over the platform,
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automated comments, changes in features.
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You know, there's a lot that went on and it was a lot to
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manage and a lot to handle.
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Combine that with the fact that reach and impressions were taking a
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skydive for the best part of the year with numbers being reported anywhere
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between 30 and 50 percent drop.
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And that's huge, especially if you've been using the platform for a long time
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and you've been used to certain numbers.
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No doubt that standing out on LinkedIn is becoming harder, and that can also make
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it feel like a chore and not as enjoyable.
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But that being said, I recently did a LinkedIn poll to see whether
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people in my audience were looking to use LinkedIn more or less in 2025.
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And out of the nearly 300 people that voted, 80 percent of people said more.
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But throughout the comments, there was a lot of words like intentionally,
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strategically, and be more productive.
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I think that's the critical thing that's going into this year is to make
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sure that we've got LinkedIn working for us and not the other way around.
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I'm going to share with you ways that you can clean up your feed,
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build a better community and get intentional with your time.
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But before I go into the fixes, here's a quick word from our
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podcast sponsors, Metricool.
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Okay, everyone.
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Let's do this.
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Let's dive into the fix of how we can reignite your LinkedIn spark.
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Too many people spend a lot of time just scrolling on LinkedIn, relying
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on the home feed to show them exactly what they want all of the time.
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But as you're adding in new connections, you're evolving, things
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are changing in your business.
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Then you may start to find that you've drifted off course and you're no longer
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being educated, entertained, inspired by the people and content that you see.
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But never fear, it's a really quick fix and it's the first one of our strategies
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today to clean up your home feed.
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All you need to do is keep on scrolling until you find something that you're
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like, I don't want to see that anymore.
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I'm not interested in that person.
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It's okay if we're still connected, but I'm not really loving their content.
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Now, what you do is in the top right hand corner of every post, there is the
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ellipsis, which is the three little dots.
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If you click on that, all you need to do is go down to two options.
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You can unfollow that person or you can click on not interested.
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By clicking on not interested, it opens up a whole new window and gives
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you the opportunity to tell LinkedIn why you don't want to see it so that
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they can help you improve your feed.
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So things like you're not interested in that author, you're
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not interested in that topic.
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You've seen too many posts on that particular topic.
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You've seen that post before.
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The post is old or it's something else.
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You can choose entirely and you just need to click submit.
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You really do have the option to train the LinkedIn algorithm and
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teach it what you do and don't like.
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So if you want to teach it, what you do like.
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Likes and comments are the way to do that.
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Spend time reading the content that you're interested in.
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The more time and effort you spend in this, the more the algorithm knows what
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you do and don't like, as I said, and the more you're going to start to see
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things that you really like and enjoy.
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So that is strategy number one, clean up your home feed.
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Strategy number two is the LinkedIn community review.
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And I've got to say, I think this is probably the most important thing that
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you should be focusing on right now.
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Community reviews for me are built in two parts.
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The first one is a review of your existing connections and followers and removing
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the ones that no longer serve you for whatever reason, that's totally up to you.
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And the second part is to make sure that you've got a strategy and a
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process for making sure that you are strategically connecting with people that
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will get you closer towards your goal.
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So not always focused on entirely just those people who you want to buy from you,
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it can also be those that inspire you, those that you learn from and I find from
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time to time, I've grown and evolved and I look around and I'm looking for people
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that can help me get to that next step.
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That I'm ready to learn from people at that next level up.
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Or I've changed directions and I need a particular skill set and so I'm
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looking for people who have that, that I can learn from their content.
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When you think about it, realistically, LinkedIn is this one big networking
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event as the cliche goes, and it's about who you're hanging out with.
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And so if you don't like the people that you are, find new people.
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You're not stuck.
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Spending time doing a community review so that you are hanging out on
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LinkedIn with the best of the best.
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They could be your cheer squad.
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They could be your butt kickers.
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They could be your ideal clients, but just make sure that you're
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building a community strategically.
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Let's go to strategy number three on how you can really reignite
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that LinkedIn lovin' feeling.
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And this one here, I'm going to say I didn't do a great job of in 2024
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and it's so easy costs you nothing.
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And this strategy is all about spending more time in the DMs.
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So in the direct messages, in the inbox, whatever you like to call it, and actually
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trying to start conversations with people.
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I've said this many, many times on the podcast, LinkedIn has one intention
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and one intention only when you're on LinkedIn scrolling away, and that is
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to keep you on there for as long as possible and it's not necessarily there
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to make sure that you enjoy that time.
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Taking things into the DMS and away from the home feed and away from
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scrolling, you can now be intentional with the actions that you're taking to
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nurture those people in your community.
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Now, when you take that strategic action, number one, you're going to be
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more efficient on LinkedIn, but two, you're going to be more effective.
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And I'm going to say you're gonna have a lot more fun when you do this,
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because you're going to be having conversations with people that you enjoy,
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discovering that you might actually have more in common than you imagined.
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You might discover that they actually have a problem that your business
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can solve, and that's always going to lead to business growth, but
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enjoy the conversations and work hard to have those conversations
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so you can take them off LinkedIn.
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The goal is not to keep everything here on LinkedIn.
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It is to try and have as many conversations as you can off the platform
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in line with your business goals.
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And remember, everything I talk about today is all aligned back to how do you
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leverage LinkedIn for business growth?
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So having targeted conversations, nurturing relationships.
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This is going to deliver that.
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When you spend time in the DMs, it's all about being intentional.
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So take a list, who are five people that you would like to
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nurture relationships with?
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When it comes to sending DMS to nurture relationships, you can send a direct
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message to someone that literally says, I haven't seen a post of yours in a while I
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was just wondering if you're still active.
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I missed it.
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Uh, you know, that's one way.
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You could reach out and let them know that you've got a piece of content that
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you think might actually help them.
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Introduce people that you think would be good connections there's so many
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different ways that you can use it, but use it intentionally and you'll
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be surprised at how quickly you can turn around relationships and
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your general outlook on LinkedIn by hanging out and having conversations
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with the people that you like.
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So let's do this listeners.
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Let's get intentional at the start of the year.
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Let's start to make lists.
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Let's clean up our home feed.
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Let's review our community and rebuild it in line with our business goals and shift
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your focus to meaningful conversations.
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This is how you find that LinkedIn lovin' feeling and it will get you back on
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track to start enjoying the platform.
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Which the main reason I want you to enjoy it, is because when you
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enjoy it, you'll be consistent and you'll also be persistent.
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And that means when I get to the end of 2025 listeners, you're still
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going to be with me and achieving the results that you set out to do.
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Sounds good to me.
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So until next week, cheers.