Jan Vermeiren and Bert Verdonck

Key Note Speech

The 1,5 hour key note speech will be an interactive session and contains these topics:

  • Why do so many people fail to understand what they can do with LinkedIn?
  • What is the 5 step basic strategy to find the right people (customers, employees, a new job,…)?
  • What are the 3 most important fundamental principles of (online) networking?
  • What LinkedIn is not?
  • LinkedIn strategy:
    • How to craft an attractive Profile so it will support personal and company branding?
    • How to quickly build the foundation for your network?
    • How to use Groups for personal/company branding and to find interesting people? And how to find the right Groups for you?
  • What is the one tool outside LinkedIn to get more introductions to interesting people?
  • The LinkedIn Strategy Matrix© for Organizations: how to benefit from LinkedIn as an organization versus as an individual?
  • 3 do's and don'ts
  • 3 not commonly known, but important characteristics that can make or break your LinkedIn actions

Whether or not you are attending this session, make sure you download the second, entirely revised edition of “How to REALLY use LinkedIn” at no cost. This is the authors’ way of giving back to society. Tell your JCI colleagues, friends and business partners about this initiative because they also raise money for charities. The money comes from donations and the authors’ royalties from the paper version of the book.

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Jan Vermeiren

Jan Vermeiren is the founder of Networking Coach and according to HR Tribune one of Belgium’s top 10 speakers.
Jan and his team provide key note lectures, presentations, training courses and personal coaching about networking and referrals, and also advise organizations how to stimulate networking at their own events and how to integrate networking in their sales and recruitment strategy.
He is interviewed regularly about networking and referrals by different media like Belgian national television and radio (De Zevende Dag, Lichtpunt, Radio 1), newspapers and websites (Forbes), job sites (Vacature.com, Jobat) and the magazines of several Chambers of Commerce.
Jan is the author of the best-selling networking books: Let’s Connect! and How to REALLY Use LinkedIn, the networking CD Let’s Connect at an Event!, the Everlasting Referrals Home Study Course, and the Network Box (Home Study Course).
The US version of Let’s Connect! reached the Amazon bestseller list on October 9, 2007 with second position in marketing books and ninth in management books. Jan is the first Belgian author to reach this position. The first edition of How to REALLY Use LinkedIn was a best seller on Amazon as well with first position in the category “Sales & Selling”. In the Netherlands, the Dutch version was the overall number 1 on www.managementboek.nl.
Jan and his team are hired by large international companies like Alcatel, Deloitte, DuPont, IBM, ING, Mobistar, Nike, SAP, and Sun Microsystems as well as by small companies and freelancers. Jan is also a guest lecturer in the international MBA programs of Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School (Belgium) and RSM Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands).

 

Bert Verdonck

Bert Verdonck is an inspiring, enthusiastic and humorous speaker. He is master trainer at Networking Coach and a creative lifehacker. Bert is an excellent example of the value of networking. Bert teaches people how to be more comfortable when networking, and how to improve results from networking, whether online (on LinkedIn and other business networks) or offline (receptions, mixers, conferences, fairs, and other networking events). As well as delivering practical networking training courses and personal coaching, Bert hosts the Networking Coach’s webinars together with Jan.
Bert is the founder of Genius Shortcuts, his personal flavor of life hacking. Ever imagined what you could do with 2 hours extra per day? Bert already helped thousands of people to boost their productivity and saved them hours per day.
As a lifehacker Bert published 3 books in 1 year. He co-authored Your Book in 100 Days, 175 Lifehacking Tips and The Wealth Garden. He created the Genius Shortcuts CD How to Shorten Your Workday by 2 Hours? And now he teamed up with Jan to co-author the second edition of How to REALLY Use LinkedIn.
In Belgium, Bert is already a prominent lifehacker and networking coach. Internationally, his reputation is growing rapidly. He has been on stage in the Netherlands, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland. Nice to know: LinkedIn has chosen Networking Coach to develop the worldwide training program for LinkedIn, making Networking Coach the first LinkedIn Certified Training Company in the world.