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Latest Activity: Aug 23
How do you use LinkedIn?
Hi, folks. I've received some complaints that too many of the messages left in this group are self-promotional, rather than ideas and tips on using LinkedIn.
So I'm doing the clean-up work of removing some of the posts that are just self-promotional. As group's creator, it's my job to keep everything tidy in here.
Sorry if your message was removed -- but that's why.
This group is a place only for ideas and tips on how to use LinkedIn.
LinkedIn is Facebook for grown-ups.
I use LinkedIn in a variety of ways:
1. To help others find employment. I'm always wondering how to help people who are looking for jobs, especially former students and friends' kids who are looking for job as they graduate from college. I am always glad to bring them into LinkedIn so they can see my network. I believe that helping someone find employment is among the highest obligations.
2. To research prospects. Before I call someone I haven't met, I visit LinkedIn and -- if they are on LinkedIn and have a descriptive profile -- I learn about them. Often, we have a point of common experience: a friend, a college, a hometown. That information can be helpful in starting a relationship.
3. To plan an approach. If there's a company I'd like to approach, I always visit LinkedIn to see who I know that might work there (or who I know that might have worked there previously). It's always easier to penetrate a prospective client through an existing relationship. LinkedIn helps me keep track of the true extent of my network.
4. To keep my references and history in order. LinkedIn offers a great way to request and archive kind assessments of satisfied customers. And, because I have done a lot of different things, LinkedIn helps me keep it all straight (and helps me remember where I've been!).
5. To be found and hired. I have indeed received wonderful, satisfying, appropriate, paying work through LinkedIn. In all such cases, the potential client learned of me elsewhere, but LinkedIn played a critical role in making me credible.
6. As a calling card before a first meeting. As Robert Cialdini teaches, once I'm in front of a prospect, it's too late for me to list my virtues. That must be done in advance. So I always send a link to my LinkedIn profile before a first meeting with an invitation to "Check up on me here."
7. To make the world smaller. As LinkedIn users go, I am relatively promiscuous; I will connect with almost anyone. (I end a connection if the person becomes a spammer.) However, though I connect freely, I do not forward messages freely. I forward only (a) when they seem appropriate and (b) with an honest and accurate disclaimer about how much -- or how little -- I know the sender of the message.
8. To get rid of baseball tickets. A few years ago, I saw a major league baseball game in a distant city. Great fun, but the game was rained out (before it was official) and I received rain checks. Problem was: I left town the next day and couldn't use the rain checks -- and I couldn't think of who I know who lives in Baltimore. A quick scan of my LinkedIn network, filtered for the Baltimore area, revealed my old friend Chas (a big baseball fan). I know Chas, but -- because he moved to Baltimore -- I don't think of "Chas" and "Baltimore" together. In the end, Chas saw his beloved (adopted) O's play a complete game!
9. And as a place to spread the word about SpeakerSite. There is a growing LinkedIn group of SpeakerSite members (the mirror image of this Group on SpeakerSite!). You can find that group -- and request membership -- right here.
How do you use LinkedIn?
-- Artie Isaac
So I'm doing the clean-up work of removing some of the posts that are just self-promotional. As group's creator, it's my job to keep everything tidy in here.
Sorry if your message was removed -- but that's why.
This group is a place only for ideas and tips on how to use LinkedIn.
LinkedIn is Facebook for grown-ups.
I use LinkedIn in a variety of ways:
1. To help others find employment. I'm always wondering how to help people who are looking for jobs, especially former students and friends' kids who are looking for job as they graduate from college. I am always glad to bring them into LinkedIn so they can see my network. I believe that helping someone find employment is among the highest obligations.
2. To research prospects. Before I call someone I haven't met, I visit LinkedIn and -- if they are on LinkedIn and have a descriptive profile -- I learn about them. Often, we have a point of common experience: a friend, a college, a hometown. That information can be helpful in starting a relationship.
3. To plan an approach. If there's a company I'd like to approach, I always visit LinkedIn to see who I know that might work there (or who I know that might have worked there previously). It's always easier to penetrate a prospective client through an existing relationship. LinkedIn helps me keep track of the true extent of my network.
4. To keep my references and history in order. LinkedIn offers a great way to request and archive kind assessments of satisfied customers. And, because I have done a lot of different things, LinkedIn helps me keep it all straight (and helps me remember where I've been!).
5. To be found and hired. I have indeed received wonderful, satisfying, appropriate, paying work through LinkedIn. In all such cases, the potential client learned of me elsewhere, but LinkedIn played a critical role in making me credible.
6. As a calling card before a first meeting. As Robert Cialdini teaches, once I'm in front of a prospect, it's too late for me to list my virtues. That must be done in advance. So I always send a link to my LinkedIn profile before a first meeting with an invitation to "Check up on me here."
7. To make the world smaller. As LinkedIn users go, I am relatively promiscuous; I will connect with almost anyone. (I end a connection if the person becomes a spammer.) However, though I connect freely, I do not forward messages freely. I forward only (a) when they seem appropriate and (b) with an honest and accurate disclaimer about how much -- or how little -- I know the sender of the message.
8. To get rid of baseball tickets. A few years ago, I saw a major league baseball game in a distant city. Great fun, but the game was rained out (before it was official) and I received rain checks. Problem was: I left town the next day and couldn't use the rain checks -- and I couldn't think of who I know who lives in Baltimore. A quick scan of my LinkedIn network, filtered for the Baltimore area, revealed my old friend Chas (a big baseball fan). I know Chas, but -- because he moved to Baltimore -- I don't think of "Chas" and "Baltimore" together. In the end, Chas saw his beloved (adopted) O's play a complete game!
9. And as a place to spread the word about SpeakerSite. There is a growing LinkedIn group of SpeakerSite members (the mirror image of this Group on SpeakerSite!). You can find that group -- and request membership -- right here.
How do you use LinkedIn?
-- Artie Isaac
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Comment by Dawn L. Billings, Founder of The Heart Alliance.com on November 27, 2009 at 3:12pm -
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Please Help us UpLIFT hearts this holiday season. Take a look at the new "Just a Dawn minute" video inspirations that can UpLIFT the hearts of
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Comment by Aila Accad, RN, MSN on August 20, 2009 at 4:35pm -
I love your comment, Eric!
Thanks for sharing that, it is soooo true.
We have all been through our trials and
persistence is paying off for me today.
I just published my wisdom gained from
40 years of inner work in a practical little
book that is now taking off and helping
others.
Fellow LinkedIn Friends,
Just want to share with you that my new book
"34 Instant Stress-Busters" hit the Best-Seller
list on Amazon July 21.
Today, we are climbing the chart to #1 with enough
help from friends like you, who want to see a less
stressed and more peaceful world.
Getting to #1 means more media attention to the
issues stress causes and focus on at least 34
instant solutions!
Will you help me spread the word on LinkedIn?
I have included a short blurb below to use, if you
are inclined to support this effort.
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When you invest $12.95 in the book, you also get
over $1200 in downloadable gifts from top self-growth
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This is an "in the moment" reference book for
stress-busting. No need to read the whole book.
Open to a tip, Do it... Feel Better Now!
Joyce Almond, a financial analyst from NC said,
"I read two paragraphs and felt better!"
"34 Instant Stress-Busters" makes a great gift
& holiday stocking stuffer.
You can see endorsements and bonuses
and order here for the 24-hour launch today,
August 20.
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Thanks in advance for working together with me to
make a difference!
Warm :))
Aila
"Your Stress-Busters Coach"
www.stressbustersbook.com
"34 Instant Stress-Busters" is the closest thing to a REAL-LIFE
"easy button" I've ever seen! With increasing pressure of stressful
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Comment by Eric Bailey CSP on August 19, 2009 at 7:31pm -
Hello my friends. This morning when I woke up and admired the sun and blue skies of Brisbane, Australia I understood how blessed I was to live another day to make a mistake. You might think that sounds crazy but it has a twist. Sometimes we mess up in life. We over eat. Spend too much money. Cheat on taxes. Put harmful things in our mouth, mind, and company. These are things we can correct with knowledge, discipline and common sense. These mistakes help us to grow
and become better parents, teachers, spouses, friends, leaders, friends, and human beings.
(Only if we learn from the mistakes and correct them).
There is no mistake as great as the mistake of not going on!! It is always too soon to quit. I am not aware of the mountain that you have to climb at this point of your life. Not sure of the burdens that you have to carry. Whatever trials and difficulties are surrounding you...my friends please don't make the mistake and give up!
If you want to overcome all your adversitys and turn them into success. Then use them like a postage stamp. It's usefulness consists all in the ability to stick to one problem or issue until it arrives.
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Comment by ASIF IQBAL on August 2, 2009 at 11:02pm
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Hello everyone,
I'm very pleased to join this group, and I hope I can get some good friends out here. Let me introduce myself, I'm CEO of an eMarketing Company 5iCreations, Inc. and also Training & Development Firm A.I. Training & Consultancy, and I love helping people through my lectures or consultancy. Do let me know if I can be of any help.
My linkedin URL is: asif5i
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Comment by David Dekel on August 2, 2009 at 7:41am -
Hi everyone
I am happy to join this group and can only hope this is mutual :-)
Allow me to introduce myself: I am the CEO of an Amsterdam NL based firm, Endeavour, and I do lecture on business issues occasionally.
As it seems, I’ll have to cross the Networking field before anything, so please feel free to add me as a friend if you find it appropriate. I will appreciate it.
I wish you all a lovely Sunday from Amsterdam.
Yours,
David Dekel
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Comment by Rick Frishman on April 17, 2009 at 10:24pm -
Hi speakers on Linked in- Are you going to BEA? Book expo- Are you an author?
If not - you need to be- Mark Victor Hansen and I are putting on Author101university on May 28- Would you like to come and because you are a member of our group - you can come half price- if so- e mail me-
at rick@rickfrishman.com
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Comment by Kathy Hadley on March 29, 2009 at 5:00pm -
One of the things that LinkedIn has that I really like is the recommendations sections.
I like to look at who is recommending people & what they say. To me, it is better than a testimonial.
I also like to see who the people I'm linked to are linked to. I've got some great connections this way.
Kathy
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Comment by Mark Hundley on March 20, 2009 at 9:13am -
I would like to invite each of you to visit two of my blogs. On one I post essay dealing with "Living in the Meantimes" of life and the other focuses attention on a cause very dear to my heart -- the Journey of Hope Grief Support Center -- a center that provides free group grief support for children, adolescents and their parents or adult caregivers as they learn to mourn the death or impending death of a loved one. The "One in a Million" site is actually an ancillary site dedicated to raising One Million Dollars, One Dollar at a Time, One Person at a Time in 2009.
I am hopeful you will enjoy reading and sharing the site with your friends, families and colleagues!
Thanks!
http://tinyurl.com/dxld8r the the One in Million Blog
http://tinyurl.com/bgqwxf for Living in the Meantimes Blog
Mark
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Comment by Artie Isaac on March 15, 2009 at 1:42pm -
Hi, folks. I've received some complaints that too many of the messages left in this group are self-promotional, rather than ideas and tips on using LinkedIn.
So I'm doing the clean-up work of removing some of the posts that are just self-promotional. As group creator, it's my job to keep everything tidy in here.
Sorry if your message was removed -- but that's why.
This group is a place only for ideas and tips on how to use LinkedIn.
Cheers!
-- Artie
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