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[...] The LinkedIn Blog » Blog Archive LinkedIn is “In the Black” « – As far as we’re concerned, a year of profitability is but a “taste” of the success we aspire to achieve at LinkedIn. Nonetheless, our employees, investors, and friends certainly deserve to enjoy such an accomplishment – one to which few … [...]

By: Tim Ferris

Tim Ferris — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:32:14 +0000

I just went to upgrade my account, and in no way did I see the value of even the lowest form of membership at $20/month. I have over 500 links on the free system, and my estimate of the situation is that LinkedIn is worth 1/10th to 1/20th of the subscription price they’re/you’re asking.

I would love to see the benefits match up with the cost. Matching my benefit thus far with what I’d want to pay, it would be about the same as I would for a magazine subscription.

By: Steven Stegman

Steven Stegman — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:12:15 +0000

@Larry,

I’m the product manager for WVMP (Who’s Viewed My Profile)–thank you for your feedback. WVMP is a beta product and we’re still determining what we want to make available. Currently, nonsubscribers see up to 5 results, and subscribers (including personal plus accounts, which are only $60/year) see up to 20.

At LinkedIn, we continue to give the bulk of our value (our core products, search and introductions) away for free to all users, as we always have.

That said, we’ll be examining this (and our general revenue model) in the future, so thank you for your input.

By: Mario Sundar

Mario Sundar — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:24:11 +0000

Hi Peter,
We do monitor bugs through a variety of sources. Feel free to send me any directly to me at msundar@linkedin.com and I’ll route it to the right contact.

By: Peter Michanek

Peter Michanek — Tue, 22 May 2007 01:31:57 +0000

It is wonderful that LinkedIn is profitable. That profit will provide the resources for further development and growth. You have done a good job and you all deserve a party.

A big reason for the success is the fact that you have been able to attract 10 million users with thousands more joining every day. That is at the same time what worries me.

I believe that in order to become even bigger and better and more profitable you depend on smooth communication with the users. You need to get feedback about what features are missing, reports about bugs that need to be fixed and some advice about what is good or bad about LinkedIn.

That is not easily done when you have 10 million users. I imagine that your customer service gets swamped with questions. If I where to ask a simple top ten question I would probably get a fast and correct response. But it is a far more frustrating task to get a bug report past customer service and to the right manager or developer.

What should I do?
How can you help me help you become even better?

By: Marketing Nirvana

Marketing Nirvana — Mon, 21 May 2007 07:05:07 +0000

LinkedIn the BlackParty

After a mini-blog-sabbatical last week, Im back! Its just been busy at work and I wasnt doing too well on the health front as well. However, last weekend more than compensated for the preceding days health stress. At LinkedI…