Have you sent dozens of resumes without a callback? How about hundreds of resumes? If you have been applying for jobs without not a lot of success you are not alone, most job applicants complain about exactly the same thing. Lot’s of application, lot’s of resumes, no interviews, no callbacks.

Sometimes you apply to that perfect job. A job that you saw online or on the newspaper and seems perfect for you and you perfect for it. You have the desire, the expertise and the experience. You even write a customized introduction letter and you tweak your resume to fit the job description. You apply to this perfect job and you are sure they will call you back for an interview. You wait for that call and wait and wait. Nothing! No calls, no emails, just nothing.

What is wrong? Why don’t you get any callbacks? Is it you or is it them? Don’t worry, it’s not you. I’ve been on both sides of the job process and anytime I was hiring I received hundreds of resumes. It’s not easy to go through all of those resumes quickly and effectively. It is not easy to get back to every single applicant to give them feedback, or to tell them why they did not make the cut.

How do hiring managers go through resumes? Most likely they make 3 piles. One pile has the “No way” resumes, the other pile has the “Maybe” resumes and the good pile has the “Call back” resumes. This is important because hiring managers make this decision in about 5 seconds. Yes, five seconds to look over a resume and make a decision either to send it to the good pie or the bad pile.

You have to write your resume thinking that your first sale is to make it to the “Call back” pile, not to actually get the job. After you make it to the “Call back” pile you have to sell an interview. Here, in the interview is where you sell yourself for the job.

How do you ensure a callback? By listening to my free audio conferences on how to get a job fast by clicking this link

If you would like to use LinkedIn to find your next job make sure to see the advanced linkedIn seminar here

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Blog Marketing Solution

Your new blog is made to capture leads, manage leads, and close more sales!

Your Blog is one of the most important marketing tools you have at your disposal. It helps you attract leads, establish credibility, it keeps in contact with potential customers, closes sales and even stays in touch after the sale. Your blog places a person in front of the customer, and customers what to do business with people they know.

Blogs are the basis of Web 2.0 marketing because they make your site immediately interactive. Visitors learn about you, what you like, what you write about, your business and your passions.

The Problem
You can spend all you efforts creating and updating blogs and never get any leads, customers or real traffic from it. What happened? You had the wrong bogging software or the wrong plugging and you lost all that effort.

Your blog has to:
-Be listed in major search engines
-List every blog post in major search engines
-Bring you traffic
-Capture traffic and add them to your newsletter and RSS feed
-Communicate with visitors long after they are gone
-Establish relationships with potential customers
-Help you get customers and keep customers
-Give you more up-selling opportunities
-Position you as an expert in your field

If you’re blog is not doing what it’s supposed to do, call us today, we’ll change you from your old platform to the new one in a flash and train your blog to do what it’s supposed to do.

The Solution
We created a state of the art bloging marketing solution based on Word-Press with all the right plug-ins, in the right format and with the right add-ins and widgets.

This solution will make every word that you write count. It will submit your content correctly to search engines and

The Service
We install the software for you and even take care of the hosting if you want. We can install the software in your current hosting account, in our own hosting servers or wherever you want. You can have the blog as your main website and built around itv(www.yoursite.com) or you can have the blog as an addition to your website (www.yoursite.com/blog).

The Difference
Why are we different? 2 main points!

1.- We specialize in marketing software solutions and in marketing strategy. We develop all software and best practices for sales ad marketing. You benefit from years of experience in marketing consulting together with software development to bring you state of the art solutions.

2.- We treat you as the most important customer, because you are. We want you to succeed, to have a wonderful blog that communicates, gets through the internet clutter and reaches its intended audience.

Our blog solution includes the forms and best practices on how to capture leads and communicate with leads.

Lean how to add thousands of connections to your LinkedIn profile without doing anything but clicking a few links and adding keywords to your profile.

Being an open networker on LinkedIn is one of the most powerful strategies for adding 3,000, 6,000, even 10,000 connections in just a few months.  Your first 4,000 connections can come as fast as 1 or 2 months.

Remember, these are strategies for self promotion for you, your job and your business.  Being an open network can accelerate your job search and help you get more leads for your products or services.

These social networking strategies can be used in any social network, but in LinkedIn you will get the most results in the fastest way.  Remember, LinkedIn is the social network for professionals.

Don’t forget to read my book “The Unselfish Guide to Self Promotion” to learn more strategies on job hunting, sales, marketing and self promotion.

LinkedIn for Marketing Teleseminar – Radio Show Details

Thursday March 26 at 3 PM PST 6 PM EST

Listen on the Web: www.BlogTalkRadio.com/LinkedInForMarketing

Listen over the Phone: Phone: (646) 200-4444

Show ID: 422973

If you decide to listen over the web you will be able to ask question as we have a chat tool!

If you miss the live event come back to listen the recordin

Listen to other LinkedIn For Marketing Tele-Seminars on Job Hunting, Marketing and Self Promotion at http://linkedinformarketing.com/training/

Don’t forget to sign up for our LinkedIn For Marketing Newsletter to get free videos, audios and strategy once per week.

Why do YOU want to compare job hunting to a sales process?

1: Sales Process has best practices. In other words, they have steps that you can follow and repeat and get the same results over and over again

2: Confidence. When you compare a Sales Process with Job Hunting you have expectations and it will help with your morale

-A Resume is a Sales Letter
-A Call to a company is a Cold Call
-An Interview is a Sales Meeting
-A follow up call is a Sales Call
-A follow up note is a Sales Thank You Letter

Don’t forget to sign up for our LinkedIn For Marketing Newsletter to get free videos, audios and strategy once per week.

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LinkedIn is one of the best places online or offline to find a new job. You just need to navigate this professional network so you don’t waste your time.

LinkedIn is full of Hiring Managers and Head Hunters. What is the problem? Most of them don’t post jobs in the job section of LinkedIn. You have to find them and their jobs.

Fill out your profile completely including
-Photo
-Job History
-Education
-Ask for Recommendations

Join Groups
-Join Local Groups
-Join HR Groups where headhunters are
-Join Industry Groups by Industry and Position
–Industry like Construction, or Retail
–Position like Architects, or Programmers, or Financial Analysts
–Your can apply directly from LinkedIn

Be an open networker
-Put “open networker’ on your profile
-This will allow hiring managers and recruiters to contact you

Use the Job section to find jobs in your area
-Search by location or position
-Contact the hiring manager
-Contact other people in your network in that company

Look for job postings in Groups
-Enter groups and click on Discussions and Jobs
-Contact the job poster directly

Contact Recruiters in your network
-Look at your connections
-Look at your groups
-Look for jobs in their profile

Don’t forget to sign up for our LinkedIn For Marketing Newsletter to get free videos, audios and strategy once per week.

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This week our free teleconference will be on how to use LinkedIn to get a new or a better job or simply network to make your information available to recruiters and hiring managers.

It is not easy finding a job in a down economy. This is why you need an edge, you need visibility to the right people, as many people, in order to get the most exposure to your skills and your resume.

We will go over how to use LinkedIn for Self Promotion in the job marketplace with easy usable strategies you can apply in 15 minutes after the teleconference.

As you probably heard already the social network, or professional network LinkedIn.com has a very large concentration of hiring managers and headhunters. The problem is not all of them post jobs on this or other job posting networks. How can you contact them? How can they contact you? We’ll cover very active and passive approaches to finding a job NOW.
LinkedIn for Marketing Teleseminar - Radio Show Details

Tomorrow, March 5 at 3 PM PST 6 PM EST

Listen on the Web:
www.BlogTalkRadio.com/LinkedInForMarketing

Listen over the Phone:
Phone: (646) 200-4444
Show ID: 422973

If you decide to listen over the web you will be able to ask question as we have a chat tool!

Don’t forget to sign up for our LinkedIn For Marketing Newsletter to get free videos, audios and strategy once per week.

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Reid Hoffman, the CEO of Linkedin.com was on CNN yesterday talking about LinkedIn and giving tips on how to use it. The interview lasted about 15 minutes and covered social network, professional networks, and job hunting.

Most impressively the CNN announced that LinkedIn currently has 36 million members around the world. That’s incredible if you consider a few months ago it only had 28 million members. How is this possible? Simple, LinkedIn has a new signup every single second.
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The CEO says LinkedIn is perfect for finding information or to find a job. You can also post question on business strategy. For example, Mr. Hoffman asked on LinkedIn where he should open his European office. He got good tips like cities with multiple international flights.

To find a job he says “Applicants with complete profiles, recommendations and connections are getting highest response rates when applying for jobs. You can get an edge when finding a job by connecting to the hiring manager”.

Don’t forget to sign up for our LinkedIn For Marketing Newsletter to get free videos, audios and strategy once per week.

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LinkedIn has a new feature on the Group section, it is a job board. This is a great idea as many people are using the Group Discussion as a job board and many group administrators don’t like it. Many administrators even posted a dedicated discussion thread for jobs, many times entitled “Post Your Jobs Here”.

As of today, you can’t see the job board inside groups by simply looking at a list of groups; this is probably a bug. You actually have to click something within the groups such as news, discussion, or any other link. After you click any link you will see Jobs as part of the main menu within the post.

This new feature will complement the general Job feature that you see at the top of LinkedIn as one of their main menu items together with People, Answers, and Companies. The difference is that the Group Jobs are free to post, so you’ll see many more jobs there than in the general job posting.

What to do if you are looking for a job? Join all the groups that you can, LinkedIn allows you to join 50. Join the groups that relate to your industry or job expertise and also join any groups of HR or Recruiting professional so you can network with them. Finally, join groups in your city or area. For example, I live in San Diego, California and there are more than 10 groups dedicated to San Diegans.

Once you join all the groups go to the job posting part of the groups and start scanning for jobs. Contact the person that posted the job directly and strike a conversation or relationship. Don’t just send resumes to everyone, otherwise you are missing the point of networking. Remember, the power of LinkedIn lies in the people, the relationships you can establish and how you use these relationships.

If you have not already, make sure you profile is complete with photo, job history, education, skills, etc. This way the recruiters of HR managers can check you out before giving you a call.

Don’t forget to sign up for our LinkedIn For Marketing Newsletter to get free videos, audios and strategy once per week.

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Listen to this Audio Training Recording from the LinkedIn For Marketing Blog Talk Radio Show. It goes over all the tools and strategies you need to use the social network LinkedIn for self promotion, sales and marketing. Learn to sell yourself as well as your products, services and even your company.

Lear how to receive 5,000 or 10,000 unique visitors to your website, get dozens of incoming leads and close more sales.

Don’t forget to sign up for our LinkedIn For Marketing Newsletter to get free videos, audios and strategy once per week.

Have you ever seen “I’m an open networker” and wondered “what is that?” Especially after you see it 5, 10, even 20 times on LinkedIn.

So what is the big deal with open networkers? What is an open networker?

An open network on LinkedIn or any other social network is someone that is willing to accept your invitation if you send one. Yes, even if they don’t know you and or know someone you know they will accept your invitation.

Why would anyone accept all invitation?

If you accept all invitations and are an open network you want to grow your network as fast as possible. Many people really don’t understand why you should expand your network in this way and I’ve received many emails asking “why should anyone accept people in their network if they don’t know them”.

Expanding your network is not difficult and I think not the real question. The real question is “what can you do with your network once you have 7,000 in it?”

I spoke with 5 people last week that have more than 3,000 and don’t know what to do next. This is s typical problem, it is one thing to accept all invitations and expand your network and it is another to leverage them.

If you are not super marketing savvy chances are you don’t have a funnel to point your network. You don’t have a blog, or a newsletter or a way to get people from your linkedin.com network to your own private network.

What is the key? They key is value! The key is “Unselfish Promotion”. If you add value to your network you will easily get them to subscribe to your blogs or newsletters and down the line offer you a job, or buy your products or whatever you are promoting.

Some important advice, adding value does not mean telling people about your great products or letting them know about what incredible features and benefits your products carry. That’s advertising, not unselfish promotion.

You need to create value with real, usable, free information and yes, at the end feel free to plug your website, job, product or company.

Don’t forget to sign up for our LinkedIn For Marketing Newsletter to get free videos, audios and strategy once per week.

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