How does your profile compare to other businesses in your industry?

Hey Alignable, thank you for adding my profile into this mix!

I found Alignable on my own a little over 2 years ago, I filled in my profile completely and didn't go back to my profile and I was annoyed by all of the emails I was receiving. I finally went into my Alignable account one day and read the messages and many people were reaching out to either say hello (no, not the canned questions or welcome messages), people who wanted to build a sincere business relationship, as well as many people, after reading my profile, requested quotes and from there numerous sales and relationships were born and have grown beyond my wildest expectations.

By being authentic with the desire to help others Alignable has more than doubled my sales. I truly believe your profile either makes or breaks your business. When someone recommends me I automatically go to their Alignable profile and I have to say many do not capture the marketing power of their sites. I then read their website & FB page to get a good idea of what they do, who they are and how they do business so I  can give an authentic recommendation.

How to harness the power of your profile:
☛  Make Your Brand Visible: Images are vital to making sure that your profile is noticed. At a minimum, you will need to upload your logo and banner image, the more the better, showcase your products and services visually (Examples: Take a picture with a happy client or a customer with your product & add a testimony, so many ways to be visually creative)!
☛ You should describe your Ideal Customer on your Alignable profile to help businesses know who to send your way and who to refer you to.
☛  Display key information about your business. It is important to let other businesses in your community understand who you are, what you do, and where you have come from. The more information that you provide, the better the referrals you will get!
☛  Make sure your contact information is up to date. One of the most important sections of your profile is the contact information section. In this section, you can add your website, a phone number, a link to your business website/Facebook page and your business address.
☛ Share your events and promotions. When you add an event or promotion onto your profile, it will be shared with every one of your connections on Alignable. It will also be shared with everyone in your Community via the “Word of Mouth” page and the “My Community” pages. There, businesses in your community can view the events and promotions being held by your business during a specific time period.
☛ Add Tags. Tags are keywords that can be used to describe your business and the services your business provides. Tags on your profile are meant to allow you to make more meaningful local connections on Alignable.
☛ Start getting and giving authentic recommendations.  I recommend others as I get to know them or if I have done business with them. Before I recommend people, I either talk to them on the phone or, if they have recommended my business, I always look over their Alignable profile, website, and Facebook to get to know them better and give them an authentic professional recommendation in return. We are all networking with business owners we may have never met before, written recommendations go a …LONG WAY and you attract what you give, so be generous! You can now spotlight a recommendation on the top of your profile, spotlight your recommendations for others who look at your profile see!

☛ ☛ ☛ Don't take my word for the power of your Alignable profile and adding events and promotions on Alignable, to test what I am saying is powerful, go to Google and put in the search bar:
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I just checked and in less than 2 years I  have the first 3 pages full of my Alignable activity which is amazing SEO, whoa!

I am also an Alignable Premium member, I am able to see all activity on my profile. In the past 90 days, I have had 693 visits to my site or promotions or events from Yahoo. Google or Bing search engines, these are not Alignable members, these are viewers outside of Alignable members. That is 7.7 people a day viewing my Alignable profile/promotions/ events from non-Alignable members, that is crazy amazing! I have had 1,725 visits from Alignable members in the past 90 days.

Is it important to fill out your profile?
Long & short answer: YES!!!!!!

Optimization simply means that you take a bunch of little things that don’t seem to be very difficult to change and all of those little changes have a multiplying effect and you get a giant change from all of those tiny changes.” ~ Tony Robbins

Cheers to Your Business Success❣

Love this!  It is so important to have a powerful profile and show who you are.  It goes beyond being genuine if it is done correctly.  Thank you for sharing this, Alignable!

By being authentic with the desire to help others Alignable has more than just help my sales. I truly believe your profile either makes or breaks your business. When someone recommends me I automatically go to their Alignable profile and I have to say many do not capture the marketing power of their sites. I then read their website & FB page to get a good idea of what they do, who they are and how they do business so I  can give an them an authentic recommendation. For me, it is very important for members to look over my profile instead of sending a message asking what we do. It explains perfectly to the point what our company does, and before asking me to refer them, I’d like acknowledgment of what we offer, so I know it’s not just a generic reply.

Cheers to all your Business Support and Success ✍️

I’ve always been an artist since I can remember. Having grown up with a father who was both an artist, art director and photographer, I imagine I inherited some of his talent! With a mother as a media director at American Home Products, I learned the business end that included strategy and the understanding of budgets. 

It’s no surprise that after graduating Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA, I was going into the design world in some capacity. Truth, I was up for a package design role at Revlon as well as an art director’s role at Ogilvy & Mather Direct. 
I chose Ogilvy and stayed there almost 17 years. I was trained in leadership, account management and most importantly the meaning of “A Creative Selling Idea.”
I learned the value of a strategy document, the meaning of targeted messaging and what makes Good Advertising!

From Ogilvy after the WPP takeover, many creatives left and I joined Ammirati Puris Lintas, and then was transferred to DraftFCB with my favorite partner, Shelley Lanman (who sadly passed away).

After that I headed a team as a SVP Group Creative Director at a Boutique agency dedicated to the High Net Worth segment of the market. There I managed all the creative with a great copy partner on Lord Abbet, UBS, Morgan Stanley and so much more. 

Then I had a setback that required a stem cell transplant, 10 years ago. I chose not to go back to the craziness of Madison Avenue, but pursue my illustration, graphics and love of typography.

I invented the concept of Tag Art which combined all my skills and began illustrating.  It made me HAPPY.

At some point I began getting requests... can you do a piece of tag art for the birth of my grandchild, my daughters wedding, my son’s graduation and can you illustrate using your calligraphy a customized piece as a gift to my daughter, best friend and so on...
WOW 
my work was marketable! 

I love creating and everything I do becomes something very special and very personal. 
Beading (fabulous necklaces) 
Calligraphy 
Illustrate
Write a strategy
Steward a brand
Design a brand
Consult on the value of a brand
Market
Present
Coach presenters
Style a shoot
Even model for 50 * market
Mentor young talent on “The Business of Being Creative”
I’ll stop now, I’m getting exhausted and I have an illustration I must do... “Eliza the Kitten”. 

Carole Weitz

I am hard to categorize, I am like a fractional HR or CFO.  Part-time, contract or gig type.   I am not a consultant,  I work part-time on site as a sales manager at B2B companies, can do some B2C but strongest in B2B.    I am not a sales training provider although I do coach individual salespeople as part of what I provide.    I help a company set up and manage the sales process.    Not sure what to pick.   I really need to stay away from the consultant title,  it's not what I do.

I am a "Big Believer" in word of mouth referrals. Can't wait to show levels of trust and competence to the group.

Hello Alignable, I am so excited to be part of such an awesome network.  Lets see, our business is taking care of our customers and making sure that we exceed their expectations.  We do what ever it takes to make sure we have happy and satisfied customers.  We do a lot of little details that make us stand apart from other commercial cleaning companies. Our motto is "Our Attention to Detail Stands Above the Rest!"

It is important to update your profile on a regular basis

This is quite a comprehensive post. Thanks for putting together resources!

I want to make an intentional difference by giving back and enriching the lives of others. “If you had all of the time and money in the world, what would you do?”