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LEAVE YOUR MARK: Freshly Brewed Career Advice with Aliza Licht

LinkedIn Personal Branding: What to Post and What to Avoid

LEAVE YOUR MARK: Freshly Brewed Career Advice with Aliza Licht

Aliza Licht

Business, Careers

5.0585 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Ever wonder if your LinkedIn posts are hurting or helping you professionally? Do you ever consider how people in your network feel consuming them? Are you someone that people want to mute? In this episode of 'Leave Your Mark,' I focus on effective personal branding on LinkedIn, sharing practical tips on how to post valuable and engaging content without coming off as self-centered or insincere. The episode explores common pitfalls like oversharing, bragging, and creating disingenuous posts. It also provides actionable advice on crafting posts that foster a positive personal brand. 00:00 Introduction: Are You Being Muted on Social Media? 00:36 The Importance of LinkedIn for Professionals 01:18 Shaping Your Narrative: Dos and Don'ts 02:15 Avoiding the Bragging Trap 03:18 Creating Value-Driven Posts 05:03 Engagement Strategies and Pitfalls 09:05 Balancing Vulnerability and Professionalism 11:48 Authenticity vs. Disingenuous Content 13:37 Final Thoughts on Personal Branding

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Alie the Lict and this is Leave Your Mark the podcast where I brew fresh career advice with some of my most inspiring and successful friends.

0:09.6

It's professional advice that you can action immediately, whether you're just starting out in your career or well on your way.

0:16.4

With a massive to-do list and a large cup of coffee, I promise that you can get it all done and still

0:22.5

have time to post about it. You're not going to want to think about the answer to this question,

0:29.8

but I'm going to ask it anyway. Are you someone whose content is being muted on social media or someone whose content is not well received

0:42.5

on social media. Now you may say to yourself, well, how would I know? And the way that you might

0:49.1

know this is when you find yourself posting a win online and realize that the response is like crickets.

1:02.2

And I want to draw your attention right now to LinkedIn, not because there aren't other platforms

1:09.4

where we can discuss this.

1:10.7

But I think LinkedIn is where professionals go to be professional.

1:15.6

And everyone, if they're smart, is trying to build up their credentials, their personal brand,

1:22.6

really thinking in terms of building equity and their own name.

1:26.6

In On Brand, I really double down

1:30.6

on the idea of shaping your narrative proactively, right? Making sure that you're thinking about

1:37.3

how you're showing up, what you want to be known for. But there's a way to do it and there's a way

1:43.3

not to do it. So today, on Leave Your

1:45.7

Mark, we're going to dive into some specific examples of what not to do and what to do.

1:54.2

So the first thing I'm going to say is you can assume all you want that people know what you're great at,

2:02.4

that your boss knows what you're great at,

2:04.3

that your colleagues know what you're great at.

2:06.1

You can assume that.

2:07.3

But as Dori Clark in my book on Brand says,

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