I have been blogging about LinkedIn for several months now, and I just couldn’t help but notice the increased attention there is about LinkedIn in the media. In essence, all of the media are saying that you need to be on LinkedIn to find a job. Is this really the case? I will be honest with you that I found my last job through The Ladders despite five busy months of ramping up on social networking sites. LinkedIn itself is merely a database. You signed up for it, so what? Did you fill out your profile? Invite people? Join groups? …
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The timing of my blog posts concerning monetizing your LinkedIn connections has to be coincidental, but yesterday, for the first time, I received an email (which was probably sent out to all of this person’s LinkedIn connections) which was an offering, in essence, to sell his LinkedIn account.
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Today I received a LinkedIn invite from someone who had the wording “TRUE LION” with a trademark symbol in their profile headline. I was definitely confused about what this could mean, but after doing a little research on the issue, it is apparent that there is now a three-way fight for the heart of the LinkedIn Open Networker. In order to fully understand the background, please make sure you read my previous posts on What is a LinkedIn LION? – A 2009 Revision, Are There People Monetizing Their LinkedIn Connections?, and Other Ways to Monetize your LinkedIn Connections.
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Yesterday I wrote about the emergence of OpenNetworker.com and their attempt to utilize their LinkedIn network to help advertise their group and offer a way for people with lots of LinkedIn connections to monetize them. Later, in the same day, another site, NuLinked.com, announced an extremely similar program.
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I hope I got your attention with this title, but I believe we are entering a new era of social networking where people with large networks are now attempting to monetize their LinkedIn connections. And the events of today will certainly accelerate this. As you probably know from my other posts, I am a LION (LinkedIn Open Networker) and I have almost 13,000 direct connections on LinkedIn, which ranked me about #150 worldwide the last time I could confirm this on LinkedIn (since they changed the search application several weeks ago it is now impossible to check this easily). However, …
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I have recently heard that every second a new member is joining LinkedIn. This is an incredible testament to the the growing popularity of LinkedIn. On the other hand it is a reminder to me that there are still lots of questions out there for beginners that may not be necessarily covered on my blog…so today I wanted to attack one of them. This is an actual question that I answered on LinkedIn recently. And, indeed, when I first joined LinkedIn I was a little intimidated by the profiles of people that showed that they were a member of all …
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I got asked this today by someone who connected with me on LinkedIn, and I believe it is a question that a lot of you have, but don’t necessarily know who to ask. As you can imagine, there is no simple answer for this question, and it will depend on why you are on LinkedIn in the first place and what your objective is. But let’s take a closer look as to why you would have lots of connections, how to deal with them, the potential that they have, and finally my simple answer to your question.
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I often see this question of “What is a LinkedIn LION?” on the LinkedIn Answers section, and I already provided an answer on this definition back when I first started this blog in the summer of 2008. It was an honor that the author of the first real good book on LinkedIn, I’m On LinkedIn…Now What?, Jason Alba, quoted me in his blog when he blogged about the same issue: http://imonlinkedinnowwhat.com/2008/07/31/im-a-lion-hear-me-roar/.
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I started out on LinkedIn not knowing anything about it, gradually starting my network by connecting with past colleagues and classmates and then expanding my connections to include those with similar interests and open networking ideas. When I first hit the 3,000 invitation limit, I was shocked that there was a definitive number put on the number of invites someone could send out. And why 3,000? Of course, when you have more than 500 connections and they only display “500+” on your profile, you are being told, in essence, that you don’t need more than 500 connections. They have been …
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If you are like me and are maxxed out at 50 LinkedIn Groups and do a monthly check on your group membership as I recommend, you may notice that your 50 groups are now down to 49 or 48. What happened? And what should you do? I keep my membership information on an excel spreadsheet, so I always know when I have been removed from a group, and this has happened to me a few times. Hey, I am not a spammer nor am doing anything bad Here are some reasons why this happens, based on my own actual experience:
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