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Re: Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn to Build Your Business

Louis Vuitton — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:56:19 -0000

my cell phone or my briefcase - it’’s a tool. I don”t look at LI as a specific, revenue-goals-attached money generator. I”m not sure that it was designed to be that. But I definitely think that LinkedIn can be a business-builder

Re: Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn to Build Your Business

paulbjaylee — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:57:05 -0000

The statement about the interest the second year in the tips discussion where there was 3% inflation was wrong at $13.00, it should have been $10.30. I suggest that you edit these elity 401 videos for correctness..

Re: Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn to Build Your Business

tommyms1972 — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:52:54 -0000

who work in one product area. Use LI to find a name (or two or three names) of people at Fidelity who seem relevant to your situation, and whom you’d like to reach. Set up a Google News Alert on Fidelity, and set one up with the target person’s name (or a few names) so that you can learn when he or she has been quoted, is speaking on a panel, etc. This kind of intelligence will tell you what’s currently on the plate of this person, the issues he or she cares about, etc. What’s fidelity 401k more flattering than an LI outreach message that says “I was so sorry to miss your speech at the Financial Muckety-Mucks Summit, but I was fortunate enough to read your thoughts on petro-dollars on Money.com and to catch your NPR interview last week.” Dang! Be diligent, but be careful that you don’t sound like a business stalker.

Re: Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn to Build Your Business

carolynkjones — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:57:32 -0000

Yes, it's cool, and useful for me
Fidelity 401k

Re: Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn to Build Your Business

Vickie Champion — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:46:32 -0000

Very well done and easy to understand.

Re: Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn to Build Your Business

Chris Barry — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 13:06:29 -0000

Liz - Thanks for posting this. Great reading for someone utterly new to the LinkedIn website. -Chris-

Re: Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn to Build Your Business

Karen Herrmann — Tue, 15 May 2007 00:20:06 -0000

Thanks, Liz

I am new to the internet and LinkedIn. I look forward to applying some of the ideas listed in your article.

Karen

Re: Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn to Build Your Business

Larry Brauner — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:29:37 -0000

Hi Liz,

Thank you for your insights.

Since you posted your article LinkedIn has become a very popular resource to connect headhunters, hiring managers and professional job candidates. With this end in mind members are maximizing their connections in order to expand either their reach (headhunters) or their visibility (candidates).

One places one's e-mail address in one's name or high up in one's profile to facilitate invitations and connections.

While this is not what the founding fathers had in mind, it nevertheless serves a valuable purpose.

Larry Brauner

[Editor's note: It is a violation of LinkedIn's User Agreement to "Post content in fields that arent intended for that content. Example: Putting an address in a name or title field." LinkedIn has slowly but surely started cracking down on this practice.]

Re: Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn to Build Your Business

Lavinia Weissman — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:20:21 -0000

Hello Liz:

Nice to visit with you here. Your review is accurate. I found personally that growing into the tool gradually is what worked for me.

What I think is also very useful is this tool can become a way to stay in touch with people you have worked with through the years that you actually have history with--who may be your best source of referrals for job opportunities or business prospects if you have your own company.

As a social network analyst, I also would love it, if this tool could let us categorize our contacts based on how we relate to them. Not everyone is a potential customer or referral source. Some people offer degrees of talent and opportunity that is worthwhile working with more intelligently.

Some people, who link in with me are people I want to get to know, while others I have worked with, had a client relationship with or simply learn with and follow for the career advice and learning opportunity.

Cheers,
Lavinia

Re: Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn to Build Your Business

Steve Coltman — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:45:27 -0000

Hi Liz,

I read your analysis of LinkedIn and fully agree with your assesment. I also find your article extremelly helpful and refreshing. If you allow me, this is my experience with LinkedIN.

First I widly used LinkedIN, got myself 20 contacts or so and a few references, then went looking in their contacts to find potential customers.

Needless to say it didn't work. However, my list gradually grew with very little effort from my side.
A few months ago, one of my sales guys complained, rightly so, that I did not tell him about the tool.
Why? because, indirectly, I had all the names of the people he was trying to reach (IT Manager here, Vendor Manager there...).

I then started using it again, in combination with Plaxo, and suddenly I am able to start partnerships I wouldn't have dreamt.

Regards

Steve