Archives for July, 2010
LinkedIn Photo Advice : The Why, What and What Happened?
July 30th, 2010LinkedIn, like any other social media channel, is a social networking platform. This means that people are networking with each other while revealing who they are and what they do. LinkedIn reminds you to do this when you log in by making sure your profile is 100% complete. Part of getting to 100% completion is [...]
LinkedIn Account Restricted? You May Have Been Too Active on LinkedIn!
July 7th, 2010Why has my LinkedIn account been restricted? No, that is not a question that I personally asked recently, but one asked by someone in my network. This is someone who is not a spammer, not even involved in marketing, and generally keeps a low profile on the social networking site. This person is also not [...]
How Often Should You Update Your Social Media Status?
May 27th, 2010Image by jyoseph via Flickr I often get asked about whether it makes sense to completely integrate Twitter Tweets with your LinkedIn Status Update, so that every tweet shows up on LinkedIn. Obviously there is no one correct answer for this as it depends on your objective and LinkedIn Brand. However, the question brings to [...]
LinkedIn Referral Requests: 3 Bits of Advice for Handling a LinkedIn Introduction Request from Someone You Don’t Know Well
May 10th, 2010Image via Wikipedia As you get more comfortable with using LinkedIn, the day may come when you start connecting with other professionals that you may not know very well. I am not referring to becoming a LinkedIn LION or open networker, but connecting with people that you may have had a chance to meet at [...]
How Many LinkedIn Connections Should You Have? My Advice May Surprise You! [VIDEO]
April 29th, 2010Image by annapmagistra via Flickr LinkedIn is a very interesting social networking site. Many users say they only want to connect with people in their closed network, but unless that network is big enough, the benefits of using LinkedIn to find and be found become minimal. On the other hand, I find many users who [...]
LinkedIn Network Statistics. Do You Believe Them?
April 19th, 2010How often do you look at your LinkedIn Network Statistics? You can access them directly from navigating over to “Contacts” and then selecting Network Statistics. Everybody loves to look at these statistics as this is where you start to see the power of your network. If you were curious as to what the numbers of [...]
Understanding Those Mysterious Facebook Spam Messages You May Be Receiving
April 14th, 2010Image via Wikipedia If you are one of the 400+ million people on Facebook, you have probably already figured out a way to deal with filtering out the many potential notifications that you could be receiving. Going to the “Account Settings” page under your personal profile leads you to a complex screen like the one [...]
10 Things You Must Do for LinkedIn Profile Completeness
April 9th, 2010If you looked at 10 different LinkedIn profiles, you might see 10 different ways in which people have entered their details. For a social networking platform that is trying to standardize the way people depict themselves with their “xxx% profile completeness” status that appears when you edit your profile, the results have been surprisingly across [...]
LinkedIn CRM: Using the New LinkedIn Tags to Better Browse Your LinkedIn Connections
April 1st, 2010LinkedIn is slowly evolving their functionality to become more like a true Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software package. While it will be hard for LinkedIn to compete with SalesForce.com, the recent addition of the Profile Organizer as well as the more recent My Connections (also called Connections Beta) have made it significantly easier for businesses [...]
12 Reasons Why Your Small Business Isn’t Getting Leads from LinkedIn
March 3rd, 2010I am amazed by how many small businesses do not utilize social media to the maximum. Think about it: social media, like the internet two decades ago, allows any business to compete with larger, more established entities. Come on, what are you waiting for? What further amazes me is how few small businesses maximize their [...]
Neal Schaffer is recognized as a leader in helping businesses and professionals embrace and strategically leverage the potential of social media. An award-winning published author, frequent speaker at social media events, and an avid blogger, Neal is President of 
