Text books and social-media gurus alike always tell us how important it is to post a good, professional head and shoulders photograph of yourself onto your profile and here at proNet, we couldn’t agree more. After all, ‘people buy from people’ and to use anything but a good quality head-shot photograph of yourself on your social media profile doesn’t bode well when it comes to building that all important online relationship.

Roger Moody - Commercial Photographer on LinkedIn

So it’s with this in mind that we’ve asked proNet member and commercial photographer Roger Moody, to provide us with a service that will ensure people can always present their best side on-line. To this end, he’s come up with a snappy deal not to be ignored for members and visitors attending our next Spen Valley meeting on Tuesday 22 February.

Roger will have his camera and lights all set-up after Tuesday’s meeting ready for anyone wanting a professional head-shot photograph taking of themselves. These photographs may be used for your social media profile, on your own website, blog or simply for general PR uses. All he asks is that anyone who wants one pays £25, with £5 going to support the Kirkwood Hospice, to cover his time. That’s excellent value in anyone’s book we think!

To attend next Tuesday’s breakfast networking meeting in Liversedge, call Isabel Carter on 07951 691302. Remember to tell her if you’d like to book your photographic session with Roger at the time of your booking.

Examples of previous head-shot photography from Roger Moody may be seen on his website.

So if you’re serious about promoting yourself or your business to other professionals, then getting an active profile up and running on LinkedIn is a ‘must-do’ if you’re a business professional.

However getting an account set-up is only the beginning of the story with many networking professionals asking themselves the question;

So I’m on LinkedIn! Now what?

To help answer this question and to show people that LinkedIn can be more than a method for ‘collecting connections’; social media advisor; Jaimie Dobson from JD Consultancy is running a series of bite-size seminars at future proNet meetings.

Each mini-briefing session will be a 20 minute insight into the different aspects of LinkedIn and how small business owners and independent professionals may utilise the tools that LinkedIn has to offer in order to leverage the knowledge and business opportunities within their network of contacts.

The first of these mini-seminars kicked-off at this morning’s Spen Valley proNet meeting to a packed room and occupied no more than 20 minutes within the meeting’s Knowledge Transfer Slot.

People are free to attend anyone of these seminars and don’t need to be a member of proNet. Visitors will get the opportunity to network with existing members as well as tell the room a little about their business and the sort of leads or opportunities they are looking for.

Forthcoming bite-size seminars on getting people working on LinkedIn are as follows.

Please note that all briefings are being held at the Spen Valley meetings of proNet in Liversedge. Call Isabel on 07951 691302 or drop her an email using spenvalley@joinpronet.com to book your place.

There’s a £12 on the door meeting fee to cover the room hire and breakfast costs.

• Tues 22nd Feb Searching for specific people, job functions and companies and how to building your network
• Tues 22nd March Utilising LinkedIn Groups, building your credibility and demonstrating your skills using LinkedIn’s Questions and Answers feature.
• Tues 19th April Shared experiences; where we will be having a combined KTS slot and Business Clinic on the subject of LinkedIn in which people can swap ideas and share their experiences of using LinkedIn.

Professional Headshot Photographs

After the meeting on the 22nd Feb, Roger Moody, Spen Valley’s commercial photographer, will be offering a head-shot photographic session to every attendee for just £25 (with £5 going to the Kirkwood Hospice). These photos may be used on your LinkedIn profile, on other social media websites and of course, on your own website.

In the Bradford group we have John Steel of John Steel Photography and in the Spen Valley Group; Roger V Moody of Roger Moody Photography.

John lives in Brighouse but runs his business from Bradford and Roger lives and works in Cleckheaton.

Both photographers are very creative and produce some sterling work for their clients. We’re really lucky to have them as members as they are great asset to their respective groups.Both John and Roger regularly take pictures at our networking events which we have duly upload to our Flickr account for all to see.

It’s a great way for potential visitors to get a flavour of our meetings.

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