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LinkedIn can be a bit competitive, especially for these that are truly building large networks: networks full of business prospects. This is a question my Partner, Mike O’Neil and I get asked all the time, and it’s part of our Integrated Alliances LinkedIn Network Building Training Program. “How do I know where I stand with others on LinkedIn, particularly in the area where I live and do business?” . . .
LinkedIn groups have way more value than you might originally see. The LinkedIn Rockstars often speak to people about their LinkedIn groups. It may be tempting to wonder what value they have, if you should invest the time and energy. Many people we know have actually found business through groups. Think about the purpose of . . . Sometimes it takes the perspective of the outsider to see what’s really going on… You walk though the front door every day, and so the stained and faded appearance is neither new nor unusual. In fact – that’s the way it’s been for some time. But consider the message that it’s giving new visitors… And . . .
This week I had the awesome experience of speaking with Michael David McGuire on his radio show, Nighttalker. We spent the time talking about various aspects of social media: privacy, tips, and mistakes. Since becoming a LinkedIn Rockstar, I have decided to ‘live out-loud’. For me, that has worked very well. When I share . . . I just learned about a cool new competitive intelligence tool for LinkedIn and other social networks called IKO System. Its founder, Nicolas Woirhaye, put together an excellent quick guide to using LinkedIn for keeping track of your competitors. If you use LinkedIn for competitive intelligence, I highly recommend checking out IKO System – the basic . . . Lesson for LinkedIn: You need to communicate the value of this feature more effectively to users. Lesson for businesses: Nobody wants to read your ads. People may tolerate it if they’re receiving other valuable content from you. But LinkedIn doesn’t (yet) have the kind of conversational engagement that Facebook or Twitter has, so . . . OK, the title may only be half true, but it’s something you need to be aware of if your last job title was “Data Diva” or “Marketing Ninja”. It’s really not that recruiters are lazy or even that search engines are dumb – it’s just unreasonable to expect either of them to think . . . While I understand the argument for mega-connecting, or “open networking”, it always felt like it kind of missed the point of LinkedIn. So while it might be valuable, it’s not as valuable as a more selective approach…for me. I may have to re-think that – this guy’s definitely onto something: . . . Sure, it might seem like a crazy idea to recommend someone you don’t even know. And you might think that’s a relatively new etiquette problem unique to the modern social web. You would be wrong. In fact, this problem has been occurring for centuries. Fortunately, one of history’s greatest networkers, Benjamin Franklin, has some . . . |
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