After reviewing LinkedIn connections options and groups, and getting to know how to grow your network of business connections through LinkedIn, in this post I would like to review and recommend a few more useful features.
One of the most useful and effective tools on LinkedIn is recommendations.
LinkedIn recommendation link
Birthday parties are excellent for networking since you usually get to know new people on familiar ground. We take this one step further, by offering shared birthday parties.
A birthday party can be an excellent ground for networking. For example, you might be a colleague of the birthday boy (or girl), and other guests can be relatives, college friends, co-workers from another place or from a totally different background.
In this post we will continue reviewing LinkedIn as part of our networking activities. Execpt for growing your connections on LinkedIn and joining groups, there is a lot more we can do to contribute to our growing network. Now, we will review how to connect to people we don’t know but would like to meet.
How to connect to unfamiliar people: LinkedIn is a great and fast way to connect to people you would like to do business with, but haven’t met before. Here are a few ways on how to do it.
First of all, I recommend as a prior step to get connected to all your existing connections as described in my last post: LinkedIn – Increase Your Networking. After doing so, the LinkedIn system will automaticly suggest people you might know, and can be used to connect to people you might want to know. This appears on the upper right side of your screen titled “People you may know”.
LinkedIn - People you may know feature
In our post Networking Where you Least Expect It, we’ve offered various places that are possible networking locations: sports groups, political activities, and in fact, any place is a good place for networking.
This week we’ve discovered that even a very short taxi ride can be an opportunity for making connections. My girlfriend took a short taxi ride in town. You know how taxi drivers like to talk - they’re born with excellent networking skills.
LinkedIn is a career focused network. I have been an active user for the last few years, and giving it more attention since I have become self-employed. In this post I’ll review some of LinkedIn’s advantages that have been effective for me.
Linking to a fellow blogger can sure contribute to healthy networking. In the introduction post to this issue, we outlined four ways of linking for networking, and last time we took a dive into writing a link post. This time, we focus on a better way of linking, by doing it “by the way”.
This type of linking method isn’t that complicated. You write a post that relates in one way or another to what someone else wrote. It’s better to focus on something that you would write about anyway. And while you’re writing your post, you link to your fellow blogger’s post when you relate to the topic he wrote about.
This method is the best way to link, and you can repeat it as many times as you wish. Here are the main advantages:
Not everyone is your customer, and not everyone is network connections material. But they are all PEOPLE. In this post I would like to continue my last post about business networking and focus on network connections, and their part in your network of customers and business network.
This business has a great product, with a slight problem with customer support…
A lot of businessman are self-employed, which usually offer some kind of service. Unlike owning a store, usually customers wont bump into your business and buy something, Usually you would have an office somewhere or even be working from home.
Using links in blogs is very useful for networking. In the initial post post about this matter, we’ve briefly discussed 4 ways of linking for networking. In this post, we’ll dive into the first method – a link post.
When I talk about a link post, I’m referring to a very short post, which is usually not longer than 100 words. This kind of short post focuses solely on the link. You can look at such a post as a road sign. It briefly tells you where to go.
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