I 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 presence [...]

LinkedIn has been around for many years now, and maybe some of you created an account in the early days of 2004 like I did and just forgot about it, including the password.  Then, later on you created a second account.  Or maybe you used your business email as your primary email address and no [...]

As you probably already know, I am very active on LinkedIn as a LinkedIn Open Networker or LinkedIn LION.  I accept all LinkedIn invitations, and I respond to each invitation with asking my new connections how I might be able to help them.  I often get the following response, which I again received just this [...]

In my one of my first blog posts, I wrote about what a LinkedIn IDK is and why you should know.  You have the ability to block people on Twitter and Facebook, and LinkedIn gives you a similar ability to block someone by disconnecting with someone, although in the case of LinkedIn you have to [...]

There are many resources on the web for finding people to follow on Twitter.  Just do a search for any particular type of person you want to follow (student entrepreneurs? job seeker advice? etc.) and chances are you will find a list.  But why none for LinkedIn?  Well, just as I have been the first [...]

After networking with several great people over the last several days, which have in essence been conversations that seem more like a veritable cross-breeding of ideas, I believe that more and more people are starting to see the potential value of meeting new people on LinkedIn. Now, just because you are open to doing [...]

I always hear of people bashing LinkedIn open networkers or LIONs.  Some people characterize LIONs as people who “amass connections as if they’re Beanie Babies”.  Others think that the intention of open networkers is just to spam you.  For all of those who doubt the intention of open networkers, I want you to see things [...]

I hope the title of this blog post did not shock you.  No, I am not trying to sell you anything.  But this is the question I have been asked twice now in the last month from a gentleman who is apparently living in Bulgaria.
I was first contacted on May 22 and offered a database [...]

On an average day, I receive an invite or two to join some sort of LinkedIn Group.  It is only natural since I have so many connections as a LinkedIn Open Networker (=LION).  Since you can easily send out invites to join a group when you create it, it’s obvious that I am a common [...]

This is actually a follow-up to a post I did recently on Are There Fake Profiles on LinkedIn?  At that time I found proof of a few people with fake profiles that I shared with everyone.  And I mentioned that those with fake profiles would create new ways of making us believe that they are real. [...]