In just five weeks, my confidence has gone from 6 out of 10 to a good solid 9. My profile views are up 129%... and I'm now starting to get genuine leads and meetings through LinkedIn.
I work with professional women who want to rethink their relationship with alcohol, and before I started working with Ashley I was already doing quite a lot on LinkedIn.
I was posting pretty much every day, commenting and spending time on there, so I wasn't starting from scratch. I think what I was missing was the focus.
I wasn't always sure I was commenting in the right places, I found the DMs a bit awkward, and looking back, I think my posts were probably far too corporate.
One of the biggest things Ashley has helped me with is understanding who I am on LinkedIn. My identity had been wrapped up in education for such a long time. Then I became a coach and I think I just hopped on LinkedIn and talked about alcohol all the time.
Working with Ashley helped me take a few steps back and think about how I actually wanted to show up. I'm much more natural now and much more like myself. I've even had coaches I know messaging me saying, "Oh my gosh, you're so natural on LinkedIn suddenly."
In just five weeks, my confidence has gone from 6 out of 10 to a good solid 9. My profile views are up 129%, my followers are growing, my posts are regularly getting over 1,000 impressions, and I'm now starting to get genuine leads and meetings through LinkedIn.
But for me, the real value has been the 1:1 coaching. Ashley looks at what you are actually doing, what is working, what feels awkward and what you need to do next.
Sometimes I needed a bit of a kick up the butt around DMs and connections. Other times it was about changing how I thought about LinkedIn altogether.
The networking analogy really helped me because I know how to talk to people at a networking event. Thinking about LinkedIn in the same way stopped me feeling like I had to talk about alcohol all the time.
I'm having much better conversations now, I'm reaching out more, and I actually enjoy LinkedIn.
I think that's probably the biggest difference. It used to feel quite corporate in my head. Now I'm just being me. And that seems to be working 🌱
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