116 – Polishing Your Virtual Networking Skills

This week’s episode of Good Girls Get Rich is brought to you by Uplevel Media CEO and LinkedIn expert, Karen Yankovich. In this episode, Karen shares 3 ways to polish your virtual networking skills.  As COVID-19 has hindered our ability to network in-person, virtual networking is more important now than ever.  #GoodGirlsGetRich We want to hear your thoughts on this episode! Leave us a message on Speakpipe or email us at [email protected]. About the Episode: In-person networking is a great way to meet people you’d like to be connected with. But for now, until the COVID-19 pandemic passes, it’s important that you polish your virtual networking skills and keep making connections. Here are three ways to get started: Improve Your LinkedIn Profile LinkedIn is THE place to be for virtual networking, and making great connections starts with having a great LinkedIn profile. Take a look. Does your profile make the services you offer clear? Are you taking advantage of the “About” and “Featured” sections? Is your profile picture up to date? Listen to Episode 114 for more details on how to improve your LinkedIn profile. Look at Your Existing LinkedIn Connections When people attend in-person networking events, oftentimes they make many great connections, but they fail to follow up with those connections. Sound familiar? Now is the time to look at your existing LinkedIn connections, rediscover those people you meant to follow up with, and get on the phone with them. Expand Your Network While we can’t attend in-person events for now, that doesn’t mean you have to stop expanding your network. You still have the power to find new connections who belong to the same groups as you. For example, if you’re a member of a Chamber of Commerce, find people within that group who might be a good connection. Then, reach out to them on LinkedIn by letting them know you’re part of the same group and that you’d like to connect with them. It’s more important now than ever that you polish your virtual networking skills. And as you start to use those skills, you might just be amazed at how many interesting people you’ll meet.   Episode Spotlights: Where to find everything for this week’s episode: karenyankovich.com/116 Introducing this episode’s topic (1:09) The benefit of online networking (3:12) How COVID-19 might change our thinking (3:43) Why you should polish your virtual networking skills (5:29) How to improve your LinkedIn profile (9:09) Look at your existing LinkedIn connections (11:51) Expand your network (16:31) Recap of this episode (19:56)   Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Additional episodes to listen to: Making warm connections in Episode 82 Leveraging LinkedIn Sales Navigator in Episode 104 and Episode 106 How to update your LinkedIn profile in Episode 114 Join the Free LinkedIn Workshop Sign up for the She’s LinkedUp program Book a mastermind session with Karen and receive a free consultation plan at karenyankovich.com/apply Join my free Facebook Group if you have any questions about today’s episode   Help Us Spread The Word! It would be awesome if you shared the Good Girls Get Rich Podcast with your fellow entrepreneurs on Twitter. Click here to tweet some love! If this episode has taught you just one thing, I would love if you could head on over to Apple Podcasts and SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW! And if you’re moved to, kindly leave us a rating and review. Maybe you’ll get a shout out on the show!   Ways to Subscribe to Good Girls Get Rich: Click here to subscribe via Apple Podcasts Click here to subscribe via PlayerFM You can also subscribe via Stitcher Good Girls Get Rich is also on Spotify Take a listen on Podcast Addict