One of the most common questions I get asked is, "How can LinkedIn help me sell more?" LinkedIn isn’t just for job seekers and recruiters. And while trying to use LinkedIn as a cold-calling tool may not be very effective, there are several ways that you can use LinkedIn to support the entire sales [...]
Darlene McDaniel over at Interview Chatter has created a great 10-part series on LinkedIn, as seen through the eyes of a new user:
What is LinkedIn? - Darlene starts with a brand new LinkedIn account, sets up a profile and connects to some people that are already on the system, all in about 90 minutes.
One [...]
You’ve probably heard the old saying, "Dig your well before your thirsty." It was the title of a great book on networking by Harvey Mackay.
I’ve found, though, that many people use it to justify the idea of "networking just to network". They network without any specific goal in mind, other than to grow their [...]
LinkedIn doesn’t record age and gender information in their profiles, and if they’ve ever done a demographic survey that included it, they’ve been tight-lipped about publishing that information. But some new social networking user statistics from reputation service Rapleaf revealed some rather startling results.
Last week TechCrunch reported a rumor that LinkedIn was in buyout talks with media conglomerate News Corp, owners of, among other things, MySpace. The next day, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman responded with a "no comment", but as TechCrunch writer Mike Butcher pointed out:
But I’ll leave you with this thought: companies entertaining a sale, or [...]