Why LinkedIn Is One Social Network I Couldn’t Work Without

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Jennifer Laycock is the Editor of Search Engine Guide, the Social Media Faculty Chair for MarketMotive and offers small business social media strategy & consulting. Jennifer enjoys the challenge of finding unique and creative ways to connect with consumers without spending a fortune in marketing dollars. Though she now prefers to work with small businesses, Jennifer’s clients have included companies like Verizon, American Greetings and Highlights for Children.

I completely agree. LinkedIn holds a lot of value that most don’t realize and it holds even more potential that I hope the LI team can capture and provide. That’s why I recommend to every working person I know that they should get involved with the site.

I second that. In addition to being the modern day resume and Rolodex; the Q&A section is a great way to search for people seeking answers to business problems that you may have some expertise in.

LinkedIn has added a ‘status’ area where you can post an update to what you’re doing that will list in the Network Updates that is listed when you log in.

Wow, I quite new to this and didn’t realize that you could use Linkedln in this way.I need to start networking with more people for my own on line business.Thanks for the very informative post..Keep up the great work and if you have any other great tips-please let me know

Jennifer I started to realize the importance of Linkedin when I started to see a significant number of visitors to my site came from it. I’ve revised my profile, but still didn’t realize how I could take advantage of this site’s potential. Great article. I’m now going to put to use what you discussed in your column. Thanks.

Jen I totally agree. LinkedIn is a not only a recruiters playground, it is the “professional” Facebook. I’ve made many contacts and have had some great answers to questions
I’ve asked. I also read other people’s questions as well.

Advanced search is awesome and even if you are not connected to the person you find, you may have a connection otherwise like attended the same school or belong to the same association.

A great tool that shouldn’t be missed by small or large businesses alike. Hey, let’s hook up on LinkedIn!

Hi there from Switzerland,

another really nice plattform (and very popular here in business network europe) is XING (spelled Crossing).

www.xing.com

Have a look,
saludos
Pablo

I can honestly say that I completely agree.

I am on Facebook after being bullied by friends, but LinkedIn is really useful. It actually does offer a real business benefit to myself from both a personal and business perspective.

I have made some very useful connections through LinkedIn and consequently made some business deals

You have inspired me to take another look at linkedin. I added it to my facebook so now maybe I will use it more.

Good article. It does indeed show how it can be used beyond basic recruiting and HR functions. It can (and often is) used as a great sales tool to find the right person to make your pitch to.

With that said, it doesn’t really do a good job with finding good vendors or service providers. For that, I would suggest the upcoming launch of VendorCity, our B2B vendor search and recommendation site.

I like Linkedln too, and xing. Both of these social network has allowed me to re-connect with many of my professional friends.

I signed up to LinkedIn but found it to be not very useful.. but you have made me think again about what can be done on so I will certainly give it another try.

I’ll admit that I’m one of those folks who hasn’t seen the full value of LinkedIn, and I’ve been a member for many years. Seems like just as I was about to get to the point of deleting my account and moving on, suddenly there’s a lot of activity and articles like yours on it. So, maybe I’ll give it a second shot.

Thank you so much for this article. I was one of those people who looked at Linkedin as just a rolodex. You presented a whole new way of using Linkedin and I can’t wait to make new contacts.

There are now thousands of social networks that cater to a whole variety of subjects. These smaller, focused sites allow users to connect with like-minded people and give advertisers targeted demographics. Niche social networks are also good for marketers who have a product or service they want to promote that relates to a particular interest. A good place to find such sites is this search engine for social networks

Jennifer,

Let me know if you got what you need from Mozy…

I was reading our latest Google Alerts for “Mozy” and was shocked to find my name on your LinkedIn results for Mozy. I hope you got in touch with Dave. If not, feel free to email me directly and I’ll be sure you get to the right person.

If anyone else is looking for an online backup solution that is simple, automated, and secure, please let me know.

And, I’ll agree… I ***love*** LinkedIn. It’s a great networking tool that has been very valuable to me over the years.

-B

Great article! LinkedIn IS a powerful tool and I do not know how I lived and worked without it for the past couple years. It has helped me network with new and old colleagues and even assisted me with finding new customers for Salesconx (the website I work for). I even made my network double in one day thanks to joining an open networking group! Now I’m connected to thousands of amazing people and hope to connect to thousands more in the coming months.

-Gina
www.salesconx.com

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I’ve been on LinkedIn for a while now and hardly used it but will certainly remedy that soon. Not only did I just learn some very useful stuff about LinkedIn but I was also reminded how much one can motivate and inspire people with an enthusiastic and well written article, as evidenced by all the above comments.

Hi Jennifer,
We met today briefly at PodcampOhio after your viral session- and it made me go look at your blog.
I too, took Linkedin for granted- until I spoke at WebContent2007 and heard Melissa Giovagnoli sing the praises of Linkedin- she’s the queen of networking (online and off) and actually runs a site called www.networlding.com
Unlike Facebook- I don’t feel like a digital sharecropper on LinkedIn- just borrowing resources from “the man”- and I find it a lot less intrusive. I often use it to find out how much horsepower people I’m about to meet have- who they know, etc.
This is a great post- and I’ll probably write about it soon- thanks again for the great session today.

I to was one of those people that brushed LinkedIn aside- knowing that it had a lot of value, but trying to find the best ways to use it. You outlined this perfectly with real life examples. Thank you so much!

I think something that is often overlooked with LinkedIn is its love affair with the search engines. In addition to being an absolutely fantastic networking tool, Google and Yahoo crawl the site constantly and LinkedIn in general is natually interlinked very well. Build some quality backlinks, optimize your ‘name’ with some quality keywords and you can achieve some quality rankings for competitive terms. As of writing this, my linkedin profile is #14 for ‘search marketing specialist’ not bad considering there is 2.7 million returned pages in Google.

Great post!
Thanks!

http://www.linkedin.com/in/burda

LinkedIn is the best way to get connected with our co-workers and friends.Credibility increases as your friends and referrals increase.It is a great resource to get exposure to the professional world .It has really got a lot of value, but we need to use it properly. I love this article , hope it will light up the minds of some people.

Great Article, I think one of the things that often happens is that people don’t do the basics well in relation to Linkedin and then wonder why it is they don’t get the result they want from it.
I recently posted about a few simple things that people should do in order to get the best out of Linkedin.

http://pauldrasmussen.blogspot.com/2008/12/linkedin-improving-you-business-network.html

I’m thinking a few day’s ago what will i do to improve my knowledge about social site.And i came up with this link that really help me.You dont have to pay just click….

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/tgw/URL/g2w/webinar?Portal=www.gotowebinar.com&Target=webinar/entry/entry.tmpl

LinkedIn is extremely valuable to me as well, considering I’m in business development for a software company. However I found the search functionality a little too basic, so I made a web application that ties into it. You can check it out at: http://www.peopletoucher.com

I would say next to Blackberry eMail, LinkedIn is THE game changer for those in sales & recruiting.

I COMPLETELY agree with you about LinkedIn; it has been so useful to me for all my business networking, and is easily the best corporate tool available on the web these days, ESPECIALLY with all the new features.

Keep bloggin’!

I am a big linkedin fan and am just now realizing its potential. I want to convince my friends to sign up because none of them are on it and they are missing out. This is an article I can show them because it has a lot of good reasons/examples of why to get involved.
-Thanks

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