A Profile Enhancement You May Not Have Considered

To a happy and profitable New Year!!

Get off to the right start in 2010 and make your profile more attractive to readers. The advantage to doing this is that if you do the right things, you will improve the readability and thus readership of your profile.

Here are some things you can do to improve the look and feel of your profile.

Short paragraphs – this is a principle of good copywriting. If you keep your paragraphs short the visual effect to the reader is less intimidating. Big paragraphs intimidate readers and may cause them to just move on. (This by the way is also applicable to answering questions as well.).

Use Headlines

Using headlines helps to bread things up and also gives the reader a quick summary of the subject at hand. The headlines also add white space to your content thus making more appealing.

Use widgets (| *) to highlight your titles and other key items. Since LinkedIn doesn’t offer any real formatting tools you can use widgets to give your content a bit more zip. Don’t forget that you can also use them in your header headline to break up multiple points or items.

Always have a carriage return between paragraphs. If you had multiple line spacing you could probably get away with indents, but they don’t work in single spacing. They make the content look very intimidating. And consider setting titles out with returns above and below. This adds white space and makes your profile more appealing to the eye. It will help get more people who stop by to read what you’ve written.

Go through your profile and do these things and you can make a difference in the readership of your profile. If you have a good call to action to bring them to your website, you will also increase the number of prospects you get from LinkedIn.

Many of these tips can be successfully applied to any type of content.

From Flyn

If you really want to get your LinkedIn networking rolling you should come to my “Empower Your Profile webinar” In this webinar I will give you a wealth of ideas you can implement to improve the impact readers get when they read your profile. See the events page above.

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