Episode 271

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21st Apr 2023

It's Time to Give Your LinkedIn Some Love with Kay Ridge

In 2023 LinkedIn has over 875Million Members and is 20 years old this year, but did you know that recently LinkedIn has released over 35 new features?

In this episode I’m joined by LinkedIn Specialist Kay Ridge from Dash Social to learn more.  It’s time to give our LinkedIn Profiles a little love.

Kay is a resourceful Creative Director with experience in leading and inspiring design and content creation across social channels. She love balancing the creative mind with the challenge to produce quality results,

LinkedIn Content Marketing is her passion, and she believes one of the most suitable platforms on social media for business. LinkedIn works when your profile is optimum and you have all the content in the right places.

She is always looking to be challenged and to challenge her team. Driving skilled creative talent to think outside the box, and bring out their artistic abilities by creating organic content. 

Kay has recently been invited to join the Canva Creative Partner Program - what this means is that she will be working with Canva on their Beta sight, obtaining the latest design knowledge, ahead of her competitors.

Over the last six years, Kay have assisted Dash Social triple its interactivity on social media, creating organic content that drives engagement and brand awareness.

Her areas of expertise include the following:

LinkedIn Marketing Strategies, Canva Graphic Design, Digital Marketing, Social Media, Creative Strategy, Communications, Scheduling, Team Building and Leadership.

Kay's previous roles include Creative Director Dash Social, Panellist on the Digital Toolkit Q&A Panel, Advisor/Educator for the Australian Small Business Advisory Services (ASBAS) Digital Solutions Program (Federally subsidised program), Agency Alternative Partner and Lions Australia 201/Q3 Marketing and PR Chair. (71 Clubs).

In this episode we cover:

  • A short intro to Kay and what led her to her passion for LinkedIn.
  • The most common misconception about LinkedIn as a content platform today.
  • What most people in business are doing wrong on LinkedIn.
  • The opportunity she sees when LinkedIn is set up right.
  • The key features that people need to set up on their LinkedIn profile.
  • Her thoughts on company pages on LinkedIn.
  • Her views on LinkedIn Premium or Sales Navigator.
  • Her thoughts on utilising video on Linkedin.

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The Engage Video Marketing Podcast is a weekly show with a mission to grow confident Video Strategists. Each week your host, leading video strategist Ben Amos will share world-class guest interviews, video strategy training, latest social video trends, case studies tips and tactics to help develop in confidence as a Video Strategist to better serve your clients and grow businesses.

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Ben Amos

Ben is a passionate online video strategist, entrepreneur, video producer, speaker and educator working with savvy brands across Australia and the world to connect them to their ideal audiences through effective online video marketing. He is the Owner and Creative Director of Innovate Media, an online video strategy and production agency based out of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.

As host of the Engage Video Marketing Podcast, and creator of the Online Video Strategy Blueprint Ben’s mission is to help other creatives, marketers, entrepreneurs and video producers better understand how to attract, engage and convert audiences online with video.

At the heart of it all, Ben believes that effective online video content has strategy at its core. As content producers, marketers or business owners we must rise up against the ‘avalanche of average’ video content surrounding digital audiences today and deploy video strategically, deliberately and creatively across platforms for maximum results.

Behind this, Ben’s a proud Dad of two daughters, a family guy and an adventurous Aussie who loves building sandcastles with his kids at any of the beautiful beaches of his home town on the Sunshine Coast, Australia.