Learn how to transform your LinkedIn Company Page into a dynamic force that drives team motivation and brand success.
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Key moments in this episode:
00:00 LinkedIn Company Page as a Secret Weapon
00:37 What is LinkedIn Page Advocacy
01:46 The Importance of LinkedIn Page Advocacy
07:08 Practical Tips for LinkedIn Page Advocacy
07:29 Highlighting Employee Achievements and Stories
10:58 Celebrating Business Milestones
12:25 Amplifying Employee Voices on LinkedIn
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Did you know that your LinkedIn company page could be your secret weapon for brand
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domination and team motivation on LinkedIn?
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Turn your page into the cheerleader that your team never knew they needed.
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G'day everyone.
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It's Michelle J Raymond back again
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for another episode of the social media for B2B growth podcast.
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I don't know about you listeners, but I have been pretty much consumed with
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catching up on all things, the Olympics.
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How good was that Turkish shooter grabbing the silver medal, not needing any of the high tech
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gear, obviously lots of Aussie gold medals.
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And I'm not going to lie.
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It takes me back to a time when I was that young track and field star.
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And Liliane Abboud will tell you that I haven't outgrown that 10 year old Michelle J Raymond,
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I'm still living vicariously through her.
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So when I see all these athletes, the best of the best competing against each
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other, it brings out something in me.
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And I've been watching the Olympics and something really stood out for me and that is
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the power of the crowd cheering everybody on.
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Whether it was at the pool side, whether it's at the track and field, whether they
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were lining the streets, no matter where the crowd was it had an immediate and
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obvious impact on all of these athletes.
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And it lifts them probably another 10, 20 percent.
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I've been thinking about how does that apply back to LinkedIn, and why are we here today?
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I think listeners that we need to start having a talk about page advocacy.
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I want you to today walk away with a brand new idea that nobody else is
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talking about and that is page advocacy is turning your company page into your team's
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biggest advocate and biggest cheerleader.
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So no more keeping the company page sitting on the sideline, no more just letting it gather dust.
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It's time to get the page active.
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It's not something static that we ignore.
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It's something that you can use and it goes far beyond just posting.
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So in today's episode, I'm going to be sharing practical ways that you can use
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your page to highlight the achievements of your team and really put them up on a podium
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and make sure that they get the gold medal.
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Now, I know on LinkedIn that there is a lot of talk about employee advocacy.
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For those of you who haven't heard that term before, essentially that is getting your
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employees active on the platform, creating content that is in support of the brand.
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And I like that idea.
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I like the idea of employees building their own personal brands, but you know me, it's
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always going to come back to the power of two.
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How do we get the most out of LinkedIn?
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And if we just rely on personal brands then what happens if those employees leave, right?
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We're left with a gap, no more branding.
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You then become invisible as a company on LinkedIn.
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, When it comes to employee advocacy, first and foremost, I just want people to
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understand it's not as simple as flicking a switch and all of a sudden your whole
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team wants to start posting content.
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I did an episode last week, if you missed it, it was all about LinkedIn posting wars,
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personal profiles versus company pages and I talk a lot about just exactly how hard it is to
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get employees to get out there and get active.
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So today's episode is all about how can we use the page to support employees to take actions?
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How can we use the page to really be that cheerleader for all of your team to make sure they
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know one, you're watching what's happening, two your supportive and acknowledging their efforts
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and three, that you're all working together.
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That is where the real power of LinkedIn comes.
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Not from company pages alone, not from personal profiles, not from posting
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content, not from outbound sales.
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It's about all of these pieces coming together as a team.
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Before I jump into the practical tips about how you can really put this into action, I just
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want to say in general, my thoughts are poor old company Pages, they are just left on the
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bench as the player that nobody wants to pick.
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And I think they're really underutilised.
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Now you have two options in this circumstance.
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You can listen to the crowd and go with them and do what everybody else is doing,
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or you can go that extra mile, try something new and aim to do things that nobody
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else in your industry is prepared to do.
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And what I mean by this is if you can add on a page advocacy strategy to your employee advocacy
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strategy, you are now going to level up against your competition and this is really going
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to give you an unfair competitive advantage.
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And really the same thing happened four years ago when I was telling people it's time to
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start investing and building your company page.
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And there was so many people out there in LinkedIn land that thought I was crazy.
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That kept saying they're a waste of time that have since realised, Oh, hang on.
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Now we get it and they're madly trying to catch up.
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So this is your opportunity listeners to get out there quickly.
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No one else is talking about page advocacy.
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It is just me.
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It is just a term that I'm using.
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And so you're hearing it here first.
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Let's go into practical ways that you can use your page as your team's biggest cheerleader.
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There are so many different ways that page advocacy can play out on LinkedIn.
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So I'm going to go through a few of them, but if you come up with others, drop it in the
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comments or send me a direct message over on LinkedIn and let me know what else you're trying.
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I want you to start off by highlighting your team's achievements.
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The more that you can make your team feel seen, appreciated, and acknowledged
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for the work that they're doing and put them up on that pedestal, the more the
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industry will view them that way as well.
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Why not shine the spotlight on them so that everybody in the industry knows that you've
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got the best of the best working for you.
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Now, those achievements could be individual ones.
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Maybe it's a team achievement.
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Maybe your team's received a certification that they've all been working really hard on.
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Shout out to anybody that's ever been through an ISO certification process
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there's a lot of hard work that people go into to achieve things like that.
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By highlighting the work, using the company page, and it could be as simple as just grab a photo,
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grab some texts and do a text and image post.
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It doesn't have to be complicated.
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A simple photo will go a long way in this circumstance.
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And that could also be a photo of the certification.
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That is another way that you could easily create content around this.
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There are so many ways that teams are working together on a daily
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basis to improve your business.
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So with all that time and energy and resources that are going into those improvements, just make
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sure that you're letting the world know about it.
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Let them know that your brand is a brand that cares about being the best of the best.
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Now beyond the employee achievements, there's also employee stories.
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Employee stories for me is something that's really special and often overlooked.
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And if you think about it, your employees are the one thing that your competitors cannot copy.
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You might have similar products and services, but the stories that come with those employees
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are something that are completely unique.
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Maybe you've got somebody that went through challenging circumstances
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before they started with you.
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Maybe you've got somebody that started their career in a completely different place
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than expected and landed in your company.
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Maybe they started out at the bottom and worked their way to the top.
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Maybe there's somebody that came from overseas and started recently in your business
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locally and start to think about what are the stories that these people bring that would be
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interesting for people out in your audience.
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The other thing to keep in mind is there are some employees that are doing absolutely
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incredible things when they're not at work.
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They might be raising funds.
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They might've achieved a personal goal or a personal best in a sport outside of the business.
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All of these kinds of things make up who
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they are.
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So don't be afraid to share that and support those causes that are important to these people.
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You might think, Hey, this isn't Facebook.
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You're right, but this is humans doing business with other humans.
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So I'm always a big fan of showing off some of these kinds of things.
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And remember, as my nan always says, what goes around comes around.
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Highlighting the causes that are important to your employees means when you want them to do the same
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for you, they're going to be there to back you up.
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So it's a two way street.
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This is how we get more results than our competitors.
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Another great idea for page advocacy is to celebrate the milestones of your business.
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Now this could be employee milestones.
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The obvious one is the employee milestones for how long they've been working in your business,
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but I'd like you to think above and beyond that.
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When I used to work in manufacturing, we often celebrated the milestones
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around our safety records.
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So how long had it been since our last injury in the workplace?
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And hopefully that's a record that just kept getting longer and longer.
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For other people, you have sustainability goals.
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I'm working with one of my clients who's invested heavily to reduce their
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carbon footprint on their factory.
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Share about those reductions that you've been able to do, because it
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takes a lot of time and investment.
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It shows that you're living your values and it's better to show, not tell when it comes
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to company pages, live your brand values.
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Celebrate these milestones and their big deals.
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There's a lot of things that we just gloss over and pretend that they don't matter
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because they've become every day in your world.
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But for those outside of your business, it just shows again that you're the kind
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of brand that goes above and beyond.
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And that's why sharing milestones on your company page is really important
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and especially to the teams that are involved in making those projects happen.
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that acknowledgement just makes them feel 10 foot tall and bulletproof and
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want to support the page even more.
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Page admins as official cheerleaders for the employees within your business I want you to now
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start thinking about how can you use the company page to amplify the voices of your employees.
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So if you have someone within the business that is currently posting content on LinkedIn, I want
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the company page to be showing up as the first person to like that post, to drop a meaningful
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comment and really show, Hey, we're here to support you and we appreciate what you're doing.
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And again, that word appreciation, acknowledgement, they're going to keep going
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around so many times in this podcast episode, because it really is the key to long term success.
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So you can also go one step further and help amplify that post by hitting the repost button.
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So as the company page reposts the individual employees posts, and what that does is helps
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expose their posts to your company page community.
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It's really important page admins to realise that you have the opportunity to
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leverage the community that you've built of page followers and really motivate
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them to come and check out your employees.
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The more you work together, the more powerful the brand is as a whole.
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There isn't an us and them mentality when it comes to business.
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You all walk into the same place every day.
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The success of the business means you're all successful as individuals.
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So don't overlook the power of page advocacy to really level up all of the results
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that you're looking for on LinkedIn.
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This is why I'm excited by it.
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This is why I love it.
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This is why I think this is a gold medal winning strategy that people that
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are just thinking page posts don't get seen by as many people, so why bother?
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They're the people that are going to be left at the end of the pack.
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And I'm excited for you listeners, because you are not going to be those people.
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You are going to be the kinds of people that take action today on your company
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page, look for ways that your page becomes the cheerleader for everybody in your team.
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And if you're lucky and have a team of more than 10 people, don't forget on the my company tab
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within LinkedIn for free you have all of those employee posts that are highlighted for you.
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So it becomes really easy.
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If your page is smaller and you don't have that.
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The good news is you can go into normal page admin view and see a list of all of the employee posts.
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And that is your action for the day.
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You can just go in one by one quickly and easily like and comment and make
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sure that your page is cheering them on.
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Listeners, there is one thing that I can guarantee you every week when I drop these
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episodes and I give you these strategies and tips, if you do not put them into action and your
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competitors do, you are going to get left behind.
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Cause I can promise you the more that I start to talk about this, it will become popular out
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on LinkedIn and then people will start to take actions and you will get left behind on your page.
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Company pages are no longer something you sit on the bench and just worry about what
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kind of posts can I keep ticking over?
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So the question is, are you going to join me in this challenge and make sure
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that your company page is the loudest cheerleader for your team on LinkedIn.
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And if the answer is yes, drop it in the comments or send me a message over on
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LinkedIn and let me know what you're trying.
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If you've got other ideas for page advocacy, I would love to hear about them.
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Listeners, I hope that you have a fabulous week and until the next episode, cheers.
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