Corporate marketing doesn't give LI enough love - here are some tips to up your game

Welp. LinkedIn, the pinstriped social media platform, is taking cues from the cool kids like Snapchat and Instagram and developing a "stories" function on their platform. I look forward to more CEOs dancing in their offices to Carly Rae Jepsen and corporate mandates Ice Bucket Challenges...

Need to get an edge on your LinkedIn content? Probably. On LI’s platform, we’re all begging for attention and the rules on how to get that attention aren’t obvious. So here’s the research that makes the LI black box a little more transparent. Memorize it to give your posts the maximum opportunity to be seen by the most people.

Anyone else all-in on LinkedIn Stories?!?! Yeah, me neither. Consider me skeptical in any content marketing strategy LinkedIn attempts as their success is more about brute-force audience than smart strategy or well-considered implementation. Anyway, if you’re curious (and please share your results!), here’s a great write-up on how to approach them for recruiting.