Thanks for your comment. I actually do leave my phone number on my LinkedIn profile, but I rarely getting any phone calls from it. That being said, before I go to bed, I make sure that the phone is far away from me being charged so that if it did ring it wouldn’t wake me up!

Hope to see you again soon on the site!

Cheers,
Neal

Thanks for your comment. I actually do leave my phone number on my LinkedIn profile, but I rarely getting any phone calls from it. That being said, before I go to bed, I make sure that the phone is far away from me being charged so that if it did ring it wouldn’t wake me up!

Hope to see you again soon on the site!

Cheers,
Neal

I’m glad that I appreciate the value of my connections and whilst I don’t offer my phone number out, anyone that asks gets it. It is just that being from the UK, those from across the pond in North America sometimes forget we are a few hours ahead…. and ring at 3 a.m. in the morning.

Thanks for the post Neal.
Cheers, Simon

I’m glad that I appreciate the value of my connections and whilst I don’t offer my phone number out, anyone that asks gets it. It is just that being from the UK, those from across the pond in North America sometimes forget we are a few hours ahead…. and ring at 3 a.m. in the morning.

Thanks for the post Neal.
Cheers, Simon

Thank you for your comment, and, don’t get me wrong, being able to have a face-to-face meeting or even a phone call is ideal. It is common to the networking events that I attend in that the real relationship is only formed after doing a separate one-on-one meeting over coffee or lunch. So I would agree that a phone call adds “the personal touch” which is essential in developing more genuine relationships. The size of my network has grown to the extent that I would be on the phone for many months to personally talk to everyone, but when the opportunity arises I do pick up the phone and ideally meet my network. And my phone number is actually included in my profile so I am always welcoming calls

Cheers,
Neal

Thank you for your comment, and, don’t get me wrong, being able to have a face-to-face meeting or even a phone call is ideal. It is common to the networking events that I attend in that the real relationship is only formed after doing a separate one-on-one meeting over coffee or lunch. So I would agree that a phone call adds “the personal touch” which is essential in developing more genuine relationships. The size of my network has grown to the extent that I would be on the phone for many months to personally talk to everyone, but when the opportunity arises I do pick up the phone and ideally meet my network. And my phone number is actually included in my profile so I am always welcoming calls

Cheers,
Neal

thank you for a great post a pretty damn good question.

I am with you to a certain extent. Yet my approach – from the beginning, now even a bit more aggressively – has been to encourage the people to pick up the phone and talk to me because my experience was that it became easier in terms of making referrals. Makes sense, doesn’t it? If I’ve talked to a person on the phone I know them better than I would from just reading their profile.

None the less – upon my network growing and my agenda getting more and more jam-packed, I have my staff send out an invitation to a phone call which is then posted on my agenda, giving everyone a 30+ minute chance to talk to me.

To make a long story short – eventhough I am one of LinkedIn’s primary assets, I offer the possibility for everyone to talk to me personally to get to know me and what I do. So yes, I do very well care about all my connections and have so far talked to over 60% of them on the phone.

thank you for a great post a pretty damn good question.

I am with you to a certain extent. Yet my approach – from the beginning, now even a bit more aggressively – has been to encourage the people to pick up the phone and talk to me because my experience was that it became easier in terms of making referrals. Makes sense, doesn’t it? If I’ve talked to a person on the phone I know them better than I would from just reading their profile.

None the less – upon my network growing and my agenda getting more and more jam-packed, I have my staff send out an invitation to a phone call which is then posted on my agenda, giving everyone a 30+ minute chance to talk to me.

To make a long story short – eventhough I am one of LinkedIn’s primary assets, I offer the possibility for everyone to talk to me personally to get to know me and what I do. So yes, I do very well care about all my connections and have so far talked to over 60% of them on the phone.

Hasn’t it been more than 140 years since it became illegal (in the US, anyway) to sell oneself, in the form of one’s personal profile, or to sell other human beings, in the form of one’s contacts?

Hasn’t it been more than 140 years since it became illegal (in the US, anyway) to sell oneself, in the form of one’s personal profile, or to sell other human beings, in the form of one’s contacts?