If you’ve ever looked for information on using LinkedIn, odds are you’ve come across helpful material from Viveka von Rosen.
Viveka is an internationally known Linkedin expert and author of the bestselling book, LinkedIn Marketing : An Hour a Day. She’s taught a whopping 95,000 (and counting) people how to create business relationships and how to generate business leads using social media. A bonafide social media superstar, Viveka has been recognized by Forbes as a key social media influencer for four years running.
The crazy thing is that Viveka had never imagined that she would write about and train people on using social media.
Growing up, Viveka dreamed of being an actor or a professor. Those plans were abandoned somewhere along the way, but the passion to connect and instruct remained. She’d spoken and performed on stage since the age of 7, but little did she know that she’d be giving her first speech on social media in front of an audience of 500 millionaires and billionaires in a Waldorf Astoria ballroom.
In my recent interview with Viveka on our podcast, she reveals that she made a meager 9 cents an hour writing her book. However, she’d do it all over again. Why? Because that’s what really took her career to another level.
Speaking of her career as an author, Viveka has an interesting story to tell about her name. With a name like Viveka, she believes she was just destined to be an author … or another career that she’d be not-so-good at. (Hint: It involves a pole.)
So, what can you learn from Viveka’s rise to social media superstardom in the podcast interview below? A lot.
The secret sauce for Viveka’s success is made up of:
- Drive: Having a goal or a dream isn’t enough, you have to go after it.
- Adaptability: Sometimes things don’t go as planned, but you can’t let that determine your success.
And, not surprisingly,
- Connections: Here’s the thing, proximity is power, and social media is a great way to get you closer to those with power.
Find out more about how Viveka used her drive, determination and leveraged the power of connections to achieve success, and how you can do the same in the podcast below.
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