Dave Lukas Chats with Frank Ieraci172: How to Hack LinkedIn to Grow Your Business with Frank Ieraci
This week’s Misfit Entrepreneur is Frank Ieraci. Frank started out owning a successful marketing business, but after a few years, realized that there was a great niche in helping clients grow their business through maximizing the power of LinkedIn. He did very well and grew an even larger business, but after some time, realized, that even though the results he was delivering for clients were excellent, the business couldn’t scale unless he found a way to automate his manual processes. He figured it out and created one of the top LinkedIn marketing software solutions out there today, ClickedIn. ClickedIn is used by everyone from small one person businesses to large enterprise organizations, even groups like entrepreneur magazine. With Frank’s background and experience, it was only fitting that I ask him on the show to discuss what he’s learned on his entrepreneur journey and his secrets on how use LinkedIn to help maximize the growth of your business. www.ClickedIn.io Through year end 2019, ClickedIn is offering a 14-day free trial of their software for $1. You can sign up right from the website. Show NotesFrank has been in marketing for over a decade. He started out in the SEO, AdWords, and social media space, but quickly saw how saturated the market had become. About 7 years ago, he sold off that side of his company and decided to focus solely on helping people grow their business through LinkedIn. During that time, he built a personal network with over 7.2 million connections.
Frank started out as a consultant helping clients get leads through a unique, but manual process. He guaranteed the service and had a lot of success. A few years ago, he had his “light bulb” go off and had an idea to build a software that mirrored what he did manually to help even more people around their world grow their business and that’s when ClickedIn was born. Why LinkedIn?
Did anything surprise you about LinkedIn as you started to work with it and build ClickedIn?
At the 9 min mark, Frank talks about ClickedIn and some of the nuances of LinkedIn and how it works…
A lot of social media marketing and automation services have been shut down, how have you avoided that with ClickedIn?
How can someone maximize the reach of their LinkedIn profile?
At the 17 min mark, Frank talks about how he uses ClickedIn almost exclusively to grow his business and the best practices he’s learned about messaging and connecting with people in LinkedIn…
What are some of the most important things you’ve learned in building a software business?
Besides patience, what you have you learned about yourself through your journey?
At some point, you reached a breaking point, a time when you were on the brink of quitting. How did you overcome it?
Your best one piece of advice for a new entrepreneur starting out?
Any trends across marketing or social media you see coming?
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