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5 Top Tips for LinkedIn Company Pages
Why LinkedIn is Great for Companies
LinkedIn, put simply, enables businesses to network new contacts and leads, recruit new staff - and perhaps most pressingly, interact with their peers and market.
If you own a business or are the marketing & PR director, your company should be on LinkedIn. Here are our top tips on how to use LinkedIn Company Pages effectively to increase social presence and better your company.
To learn more about how to use social media, check out 'Using Social Media when Recruiting Staff'.
Our 5 Top Tips for LinkedIn
Staff
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- While it seems mediocre, ensuring all your staff are on LinkedIn and marked as company employees. A company with no employees comes across negatively for a few reasons:
- It suggests staff aren't proud to be associated with the company
- It suggests staff aren't bothered about being associated - suggesting they lack passion
- It gives the company an image of lacking authority and organisation - seeing a company's hierarchy, staff, and roles all laid out in consistent branding conveys an image of competence - not doing so does the opposite.
- While it seems mediocre, ensuring all your staff are on LinkedIn and marked as company employees. A company with no employees comes across negatively for a few reasons:
Branding
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- Get your branding out there. LinkedIn is a fantastic platform for advertising and marketing your business - make sure your company looks professional and that its branding is everywhere, even on shared content.
As with any social network, LinkedIn has its own recommended sizing for image sizes. Updating branding for seasonal or corporate events can also go a long way.
Get Creative with Content
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- LinkedIn is a great platform to share articles and content with your following. Sharing relevant and current articles about your field depicts you as informed, or generating your own positions your company as informed AND engaged - get involved with trends directly. Content sharing is the most prominent form of interaction on LinkedIn - when clicked, it can direct people to your site, or affiliated ones, improving traffic and potentially generating leads. But everyone's sharing content on LinkedIn, so make yours creative and interesting - give people a reason to click on your content!
Optimise your LinkedIn
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- If you want people to find your company profile on Google, it needs to be search-engine optimised - the process for this is called SEO (search engine optimisation - surprisingly). SEO can be done by anyone - at a base level. This means titling your articles with keywords, talking about relevant and engaging content without copy + pasting, and making sure any images in your content have relevant titles & alt tags. Alt-tags are where things get a bit code-y - so if you're not too savvy on that, focus on your content being relevant and engaging with keywords, same with your LinkedIn company profile descriptions.
Analyse
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- LinkedIn has its own analytics system in the admin section for managing your company page. You can use these for an oversight as to how your LinkedIn is performing. This includes how much traffic it gets and how many people engage with your content. If you implement the above strategies, you should see both of these figures rise - keep an eye on your analytics because if they don't rise, you're doing something wrong.
So that's our quick 5 top tips for using LinkedIn Company pages effectively. We hope it's helped inspire you to up your social media game! For more information on the sales industry & its recent trends, check out our blog here, or to recruit top-level staff, head to our recruitment page.
Date published: 5th March 2024
by Rob Scott
Managing Director
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