A couple weeks ago, as I prepared to go speak at BlissDom Conference, I took a hard look at this site. I knew that I would be passing out my funky mini Moocards, and I wanted to be sure people who came to KelbyCarr.com had a good experience.

That is when it dawned on me that, a while back, LinkedIn nudged me to get my profile there 100 percent complete by getting some recommendations. I didn’t like the idea of an incomplete profile (I’m sure they know that), so I requested a few recommendations. I was stunned at how wonderful the recommendations were. I used them in a brochure about my services.

Before BlissDom, I had a total “duh” moment. I decided to take a few minutes to create a page with some of those recommendations. It looks like this and you can visit my What People Are Saying About Kelby Carr page here.

I also plan to get some sort of a rotator plugin for Wordpress so I can pull snippet quotes from these recommendations and place them in my sidebar with a link to the page.

The process of doing this was really simple.

• Get some recommendations (and join LinkedIn if you aren’t already on there). If you already have some LinkedIn recommendations, you are already in great shape. I did, but requested a couple more recommendations before I created the page.
• Grab the quotes and avatars for those who made recommendations and place them on a page. Include their name and title and a link to their site. That is just polite, but it also will catch the attention of those you have linked to if they track their site’s stats or have Google alerts for links to their sites.
• Create a Testimonials page with an intro and each recommendation with picture. Personally, I used a table to place the pictures to the left and the text to the right.
• Promote the testimonials page in your sidebar or add it to your menu.
• Be sure to pay it forward by recommending those who recommended you!