beBee: What To Post, What Not To Post

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It is time to discuss what to post and what not to post on beBee in great detail. To your connections and the public, your professional profile is a direct reflection of your activity and what you post on beBee. The specific nature of what you post on beBee also defines your personal and professional interests with your connections and will influence your visibility, your career growth and your business opportunities.

What To Post

Request Assistance: None of us are ever successful alone. We often need the assistance of others in our professional network. Your connections represent a vast collection of talent, knowledge and expertise. If you have a problem to solve or a career obstacle to overcome, tap into your rich network of professionals via an article/story with a specific and well-explained request for assistance. You may discover a solution and you may even make new and valuable professional connections on the journey.

Publish Articles or Stories: Consider writing articles that serve to inform, add value, share your knowledge and expertise and reinforce your brand messages. If you are viewed as an expert on any field you can further build your brand and value in the marketplace. You may also inspire a connection regarding a new career opportunity. When you publish an article directly on the beBee Producer platform you will enjoy more activity on your article as your connections are notified on their homepage and your article is placed on the beBee web page. Please remember that on beBee, your connections do not want to a direct sales pitch. Rather, your connections want to be informed and inspired by your article.

Some great examples of things you can do on beBee Producer

Note for those who just want to enjoy:

You don't need to have a particular agenda, you don't need to sell anything to be on beBee, just enjoy "engaging dialogue" and writing/reading stories/articles on beBee Producer ! 

What Not To Post

The following types of activity on beBee will not serve to build your brand nor reinforce the management of your career and will likely affect these desirable outcomes in a non positive manner:

Quotes and Placards: beBee is a professional networking website and is not Facebook, Instagram , Twitter or LinkedIn and the quality of your content needs to reflect this difference. While a quick and easy path to show activity and presently popular with some members on beBee, posting quotes from famous people does not reinforce your brand. This reinforces their brand versus yours.

Your direct quotes and wisdom from your life and business experiences are far more compelling and interesting to your connections. Write stories/articles reinforcing your quotes. Share of your life and business wisdom also builds your brand and value in the marketplace. Your connections made the connection with you in order to establish a professional and/or personal relationship with you.

Add value to the pictures. Write stories/articles with your pictures instead of sharing a simple picture.

Write stories/articles reinforcing your quotes instead of sharing a image quote.

Add value to your external links: External Links are hyperlinks that point at (target) any domain other than beBee. 

Write stories/articles adding the external links you want to share instead of sharing a simple external link. You can share a link, but people expect value from your shares. Add value to these links that probably are already in other social networks.

bebee provides us with a valuable online platform to promote and market our brand, build our networks, create mutually beneficial professional relationships and to contribute to the goals of our connections. Use beBee wisely and you will enjoy professionally rewarding and profitable results 

Controversial Posts: As beBee is a professional network full of potential clients, industry peers, providers, partners and other people in professional relationships with you, it is a good idea to avoid topics that tend to polarize people, especially controversial ones with a negative connotation. This is up to you - of course, on beBee we are free to speak, but I prefer to avoid controversial post. 

Empowering The Hives On beBee

beBee is empowering the Hives with quality and original content during the next weeks as I announced here : How Do We Innovate.  It's going to be a network by far with the most quality content. We will upgrade the hives in beBee only with quality content, which is what everyone expects.

People on beBee have a different view, because it's not all about work. It's about helping and learning and teaching and supporting the people you are connected to.

beBee encourages people to get to know each other and develop business relationships from their personal relationships.

Personal connection speaks louder than any resume ever will. beBee understands that there's a lot more to you than just business. The idea behind beBee as a networking site is that your personal interests can lead to business opportunities. beBee enables you to form meaningful human connections on a personal and professional level.

People do business with people, pepple hire people

Write About What You know And What Interests You

beBee is an open platform. People will read and follow your articles if they learn something that helps their business or their lifes. Stick to your areas of expertise. It's better to write about the two or three areas where you have in depth knowledge than try to write broadly about general business topics. This is about being known for what you know.

Remember, if you want someone to comment, share, or like your posts, you need to do this for others first without the expectation of the return.