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In this video, Mike Pitt discusses, What is Wrong with LinkedIn Groups? ( and how to fix them). This video will be of interest to business owners, B2B marketing managers, Content Marketing professionals, Social Media Managers and others who use LinkedIn to promote their businesses.

LinkedIn Groups

LinkedIn Groups are an excellent opportunity to build a community around your company’s vision or purpose. That is the potential that Groups have, unfortunately the reality for so many regular LinkedIn users is that LinkedIn Groups are mostly without value. What usually happens in most groups is that group members post links to their content and then there is little engagement with each post. As a consequence, interest in the group declines amongst its own membership.

In this video, I outline a cohesive strategy for running a LinkedIn Group that will maintain good engagement levels. I also demonstrate by giving examples.

LinkedIn

LinkedIn is the Social Media platform of choice for B2B business professionals; total global membership for the platform has almost reached 675 million and those members are located in over 200 countries worldwide. Potential prospects or leads for your business are spending more and more time on the platform.

Take Action

Have you considered starting a LinkedIn Group? Do you think that you are already a member of too many LinkedIn groups?  Let me know in the comments section below.

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” It’s absolutely worth it.” – #onsettingupabusiness

” Start small. Think big – but do get started.”

” There is nothing to fear but fear itself.” Quoting #FranklynDelanoRoosevelt

On seeking funding…

” We applied to 20 banks and got turned down 20 times.” #onseekingfunding

Email subject line – ‘Does anyone know anyone rich?’ #onseekingfunding

“Maurice Pinto…he put in £250K and got out £30 million.” #talkingabouttheinvestorwhosaidyes

On a direct approach to distribution…

“We went to independent retailers over a bank holiday weekend and gave them 3 cases for free…45 out of 50 reordered.”

” We just got started…We were hungover and we needed something to make us feel better. ” – #innocentbeginnings

On working with a team…

” The three of us (founders) take credit when it’s the team of 300 that should take the credit. ” #teameffort

On role models…

“Richard Branson …I think in Britain he made entrepreneurs sexy…” #rolemodels

On being focused…

” Write down the dream. When you write it down – the dream becomes a goal.” #startingabusiness

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Later this person came back to us and explained that they wanted the post to be an advertisement for their client. Obviously we cannot run advertisements via the back door for this company’s clients in our blog. The options presented to this person were to run to a piece that retained editorial integrity or for them to purchase a paid for post. All of this highlights the fact that many do not understand what constitutes a guest post on a blog. Here’s what it is not.

* A guest post is not an advertisement for a company.

* A guest post is not reason to abandon normal editorial guidelines in order to mention a company.

So what is a guest post?

* A guest post provides readers of a blog with value added content in the same way that the regular posts do. The only difference being that the guest post is written by a guest author.

Rationale

A good guest post delivering great content will drive people to the guest author’s website link and establish a useful backlink or ‘traffic source’ to use Google Analytics terminology. It will also build the reputation and profile of the guest author.

We are still happy to receive guest post submissions providing they deliver value added content – this could relate to some new innovative technology or range of services. It is possible to secure a link to a company or individual providing it is relevant and of interest to our audience.

Feel free to contact us via mail@marketingfundamentals.com with your guest post or give us a call on +44 (0) 845 2264 247 to discuss this or any aspect of your marketing requirements.

We hope you have found this information useful.

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Marketing Fundamentals Team

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However, if women can’t access the cash they need, they can’t even get started. Whether the barriers to getting funds are real or imagined, the problem is most women believe they exist, and therefore may not even try to get the bank loan or grant which could launch their idea. How do we end this vicious cycle? Crowdfunding.

Crowdfunding for Women

Crowdfunding is an innovative new method of funding, and it’s revolutionising finance with a simple core concept – tell everyone about your great idea and ask for money in return for a reward. It’s as easy as that. Well this is great news for everyone of course, but for women in particular because it removes any bias, and allows women the same chance to pitch their ideas.

In fact, at Bloom VC we’ve found our female owned projects are actually much more successful than their male counterparts, and are more comfortable engaging and interacting with their community. (Ed – based on your projects completed so far) Maybe this personal relationship comes more naturally to us girls, after all we are the more touchy feely gender!

Hannah Stansfield is one such example, as she has funded not one but two successful projects with Bloom, Feeding Dahab’s Dogs and The Saddle Pad Project, both of which were for charity, to protect animals in Egypt. Hannah found it difficult to raise money previously, as she had tried donation drives through Facebook and the website, and a PayPal widget, but they didn’t appear to be getting the message across. She says crowdfunding has allowed her to explain her project clearly, and to a much wider audience, which has allowed her to raise more that she thought possible in a short space of time.

Jessica McDermott has recently closed her project successfully – all she needed was £500 to fund her comedy club exhibition ‘You Must Love Working Here’. While she had considered applying for grants through bodies such as creative Scotland, she felt it was risky to sit about waiting for her application to be processed. The great thing about crowdfunding for Jessica, was she was able to clearly see how much she had raised and how long she had left to go.

It’s amazing to see how far some of our project owners have come since their crowdfunding campaign; Polly from Cake Cetera will be delivering her gorgeous cupcake bouquets nationwide in the Spring, and Mhairi from Bonnie Bling was able to go full-time in her acrylic jewellery business after crowdfunding more than £8000. She has also hired part-time employees and enjoyed massive success as celebs such as Olly Murs, Sir Elton John and Tallia Storm have worn her jewellery.

As today is International Women’s Day Bloom VC wanted to celebrate our strong female project owners who are breaking the mould, and encourage more women to join the crowdfunding revolution! With that in mind, we’ve announced a no commission offer for any female owned projects launched on the 8th, and have much more planned to mark this important date. Check out our activity on Facebook and Twitter, and our IWD page.

Are you considering crowdfunding? If you are our website is a great place to start.

We hope you find this information useful.

Best regards,

Marketing Fundamentals Team
This guest post for the Marketing Fundamentals Team was written by Cara Pleym of Bloom VC

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