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LinkedIn is a social media network like any other, and your profile page is your own little slice of it. LinkedIn profiles give you all the opportunity you need to explain who you are, what you’ve done, what you’re doing, and why people should care.

We’ve put together a comprehensive guide to making the most of that opportunity. Follow these 15 simple tips covering how to make a good LinkedIn profile, and you’ll be set up to succeed in your LinkedIn marketing goals.

Choose the right profile picture

Your profile picture is the first thing people will see when they visit your profile. Use it to make a great first impression. Firstly, that means actually having a profile picture. Profiles without them get 14x fewer views. If you want to build momentum on LinkedIn, anonymity isn’t an option.

When you’re choosing a profile picture, prioritise a photo that accurately reflects what you currently look like, is high enough resolution (400 x 400 is ideal), and focuses on your face. It doesn’t have to be a professional headshot, or overly formal. What’s most important is that it matches the impression you want to put across.

Add a background photo

You can also add a background photo to your LinkedIn profile that appears as a banner at the top of the page. This doesn’t have a practical purpose, so you can use it however makes sense to you. It’s a great opportunity to add a bit more personality to your profile or highlight your company.

For the former, consider adding a photo of your workspace, the area you live in, or a more abstract image. For the latter, use Canva or another design program to create a branded banner that showcases your tagline, services, contact information, or awards. Whichever one you choose, make sure your background photo is high-quality and in the right dimensions (1584 x 396).

Optimise your headline

Your headline is a one-liner that sits at the top of your LinkedIn profile and appears under your name in search results, posts, and comments. It’s widely seen as one of the most important parts of your LinkedIn profile, giving you the chance to sell yourself in a concise statement.

It should get across key information about who you are and what you do, with the aim of making a strong impression on your target audience. But you only have 220 characters to play with, so every word counts.

Instead of defaulting to using your job title as your headline, try to get a bit more inventive. Focus on your unique value proposition. What makes your profile worth looking at compared to other people who have the same job? But while you’re getting creative, avoid making your headline confusing. It should still clearly display what you actually do.

Make your summary a story

Your LinkedIn summary, or ‘About’ section, is a key part of your profile. It’s your first chance to expand on your skills and experience, offering 2,000 characters to play with. But avoid the temptation to use it as a CV replacement (there’s plenty of chance to do that further down on your profile page). Instead, prioritise telling your story.

No matter how mundane you think your job, career, or sector is, there’s always an interesting story behind it. And using storytelling techniques and emotional language in your summary will help it make an impact on the reader.

A good template to follow is to start by explaining what you do and why you do it. Then go on to talk about the journey that got you there and what you learned on the way. Feel free to sprinkle your personality in – LinkedIn doesn’t have to be all serious, all the time.

Get detailed on your experience

The ‘Experience’ section on your LinkedIn profile is your opportunity to really get into the detail of your career. It works just like the main section in a CV, giving you the chance to outline your career role-by-role and explain what you did and what you learned in each position.

Spend some time to make the most of this opportunity. Add an entry for each role you’ve taken on and write a short description of how you excelled and what experience you gained. And take extra care to write a compelling description for your current role. This will be your main opportunity to explain what your company does and why your target audience should be interested.

Highlight your key skills

Your skills are what got you so far in your career, so use the ‘Skills’ section on your LinkedIn profile to describe them. You can add up to 50 unique skills from LinkedIn’s comprehensive collection, from soft skills like relationship building to specific proficiencies like Photoshop expertise. Adding more than five skills has been linked with receiving up to 17x more profile views.

Don’t worry about filling up the full quota, though. Instead, focus on choosing the skills that best reflect your actual value proposition. Only three skills are displayed natively on your profile, anyway, so choose the ones that you’re both really strong in and relate to the kind of work you want to do.

You can hand-select the most important skills to show up at the top of your list to put a spotlight on them.

Aim to build endorsements

Other LinkedIn users can endorse you for the skills you’ve chosen to add to your profile. This is a powerful feature that can help you demonstrate your proficiency through social proof. Skills look much more impactful on your profile when they’re backed up by other professionals in your network.

There are two main ways to build endorsements on your skills. You can directly ask people you know or have worked with before to endorse you for the skills they’ve seen in practice. Alternatively, you can proactively endorse other peoples’ skills and hope that they return the favour.

Show off your certifications

LinkedIn has a built-in training platform which offers certifications to users who complete courses and demonstrate their proficiency in a skill or field of knowledge. These certifications are displayed on your profile and authenticate your skillset, supplementing the skills you’ve already added and received endorsements for.

Take a look through the library of 2,000 certifications you can achieve through LinkedIn Learning and see if any of them suit you. These certifications can add a new level of depth to your profile, while also giving you the chance to brush up on your skills in the process.

Don't forget the small details

While your headline, summary, experience, and skills will make up the bulk of your profile, don’t neglect the smaller details. Your LinkedIn profile has lots of fields for basic information, like your contact information, where you live, and your pronouns.

Fill them all out to make sure your profile is ‘complete’, and to add useful context for people who come across you on the platform. You can also link to your personal or company website in your contact info, giving other users the opportunity to find out more about you or what work you do.

Get a custom URL

Your LinkedIn profile will have an automatically-generated URL when you first create it. But you have the option to change it to something more descriptive, memorable, and interesting.

You can change it up to five times every six months, but it’s best to just change it once and then stick with it. Strike a balance between a creative URL that will stand out and one that’s practical in how it represents your profile.

One method of creating a strong custom LinkedIn URL is to use your name, job title, and one or two key skills, all separated by hyphens to ensure readability.

Spotlight your services

If you want to use LinkedIn for lead generation, even if it’s not your main goal, adding services to your profile can help. To do this, you need to create a separate ‘LinkedIn Service Page’, but the process is simple enough.

You can add up to 10 services in total, choosing from the diverse options LinkedIn provides. Alongside these services, you can include other information like examples of your work, your pricing structure, and client or customer testimonials.

A completed service page acts like a brochure advertising your professional offering. And the key details – what services you offer – pull through on to a prominent section of your main profile, highlighting them for your entire LinkedIn network to see.

Feature examples of your work

You can also feature examples of your work in action on your main profile using the optional ‘Featured’ section. This gives you a platform to display the work you’re most proud of, whether it’s articles you’ve written, reports you’ve put together, websites you’ve built, videos showcasing your products, or something else entirely.

These featured examples are displayed natively on your LinkedIn profile and add further depth to the collection of information. They’re like a micro-portfolio, allowing you to demonstrate your skills in practice to help convince potential customers or clients that you’re capable of helping them with their challenges.

Ask for recommendations

‘Recommendations’ are another LinkedIn profile feature well worth taking advantage of, essentially acting as on-profile character and proficiency testimonials. They sit near the bottom of your profile, split into recommendations you’ve given and received. It’s the latter ones you’re interested in. The more high-quality recommendations you can add to your profile, the more impactful it’ll be with viewers.

There’s no easy way to get recommendations. The same two methods that apply to endorsements apply here. The best route is to ask people you’ve worked with (whether that’s colleagues, clients, or managers) to give you one. You can then return the favour to strengthen their profile too.

A collection of recommendations help to add some colour to your profile, lending extra context to your experience section. They can also help to highlight your key skills and career achievements.

Make your profile public

You have the option to make your LinkedIn profile private or public. The former means that only people who are connected with you can see your profile details. The latter means that anyone who visits your profile can see all of the information it contains.

While online privacy is important, having a public profile is essential if you want to maximise your LinkedIn presence. It allows people from outside of your network to check you out without connecting, which removes friction from the opportunities you’re exposed to.

It also means that your profile can be discovered from off-platform – through Google Search for example. Paired with a custom URL that’s optimised around the right keywords, this can expose you to even more opportunities for work or network-building.

Stay up to date

Finally, make sure to keep on top of your LinkedIn profile and avoid it becoming outdated. LinkedIn is a huge social media network, with over 900 million users, and your profile acts as your face in that crowd.

Committing to regular profile reviews, or remembering to update your LinkedIn profile every time there’s a development in your career or skillset, makes sure that you’ve always got your best foot forward, helping you make the most of the platform.

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Simple LinkedIn Post Framework For Employee Advocates To Boost Reach And Trust

In this guide, we share a repeatable, tested framework your employees can use to write LinkedIn posts that increase reach, drive engagement, and protect authenticity.Use these steps to coach advocates, run quick experiments, and measure wins.Learn a 5-part LinkedIn post framework optimized for employee sharing.Includes example templates, testing tips, and measurement signals.Designed to keep posts authentic while improving reach and CTR.Why a simple framework mattersMany employee advocates want to help but don’t know how to turn ideas into posts that perform on LinkedIn.A clear, short framework reduces friction and preserves each person’s voice while aligning content with business goals.Purpose: teach non-writers a reliable structure that balances authenticity and discoverability so your program drives measurable results.The 5-part LinkedIn post frameworkUse these five elements in order. Not every post needs all five, but this sequence is your baseline for consistent performance.1. Hook (1–2 lines)Start with a single strong sentence that creates curiosity, states a clear benefit, or challenges an assumption. Short hooks drive more clicks and reduce scroll fatigue.Examples: "Why our launch failed in week one" or "3 small habits that doubled my focus."2. Value or story (2–4 short paragraphs)Deliver practical value or a concise personal story. Keep paragraphs to one or two sentences. Bullet lists work well here to make ideas scannable.3. Evidence or microcase (1 paragraph)Add one concrete data point, a quick example, or a mini case that supports the claim. This builds credibility without turning the post into a long read.4. Clear human CTA (call to action)End with a simple CTA that invites conversation, not sales pressure. Examples: "What do you think?" "Share a tip below." "If you’ve tried this, tell me how it went."5. Don't forget accessibilityFinish with alt text for any image you attach which helps accessibility and sometimes keeps posts clear if images don’t load.Post templates advocates can useProvide employees with short, fill-in-the-blank templates they can personalize. Templates reduce decision fatigue and increase adoption.Lesson template: “Hook. What happened. What I learned. One tip. CTA.”How-to template: "Problem. Quick steps (3 bullets). Result. CTA asking for others’ tips."Thought starter: “Contrarian statement. Brief rationale. One question to the audience.”Practical coaching tips for managersRun a 20–30 minute workshop to introduce the framework.Use live examples from your team’s LinkedIn to map posts to the format. Short group edits show how to maintain voice while improving structure.Encourage employees to keep a swipe file of ideas and snippets they can quickly turn into posts. Consider pairing new advocates with a mentor for the first 6–8 posts.Test and measure what mattersFocus on simple, meaningful metrics that reflect both reach and quality:Impressions and engagement rate (likes + comments divided by impressions)Qualitative signal: number of meaningful comments or DM leadsDownstream signal: clicks to content, topic mentions, or demo requestsRun A/B tests on hook styles, post length, and CTA phrasing for two weeks per test. Use internal tracking or a platform like Vulse to capture advocate-level performance.Quick checklist before publishingDoes the first line create curiosity or state a benefit?Is the post under 250 words and broken into short paragraphs?Is there a clear CTA that invites conversation?Have you added 2–4 relevant hashtags and alt text for images?Common pitfalls and how to avoid themAvoid making posts read like ads. If a post feels promotional, remove the sales language and add a human insight.Don’t over-hashtag; three focused tags often outperform a long list. Finally, respect employees' voices-coaching should be optional and framed as skill development.Ready-to-run experiment (7 days)Day 1: Run a 30-minute training introducing the framework.Days 2–6: Each advocate posts using one template. Track impressions and comments.Day 7: Review results and share top-performing hooks and CTAs with the team. Repeat with minor tweaks.For examples and case studies on advocate-led content that scaled, see our resources.Author:Questions and answersQ: How often should employee advocates post?A: Start with one post per week per advocate. Consistency matters more than volume; increase frequency only after measuring quality and engagement.Q: How do we keep posts authentic while aligning to brand goals?A: Use frameworks and templates, but let employees personalize language, anecdotes, and opinions. Offer optional topic buckets rather than rigid scripts.Q: Should we require approval before posting?A: Prefer guidance over gatekeeping. Use lightweight checks for regulated industries, otherwise encourage speed and authenticity with optional review for new advocates.

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