Comments on: 8 LinkedIn Tips for a more productive 2008

By: Suryanarayana S V

Suryanarayana S V — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:37:32 +0000

In response to my question “How to get more from LinkedIn networking? Any tips please?” I was advised by Rob McClenahan, LinkedIn, Customer Support who advised me to go through this article. Surya, you have given very useful tips. Thanks You. I, in turn pass on this link to my contacts.http://blog.linkedin.com/blog/tips_and_tricks/
Please keep me informed about your future postings.
Regards,
Suryanarayana S V – Hyderabad-India
My linkedin profile – http://www.linkedin.com/in/suryanarayana
My blog – http://www.suryanarayana.com/blog.html
My website – http://www.suryanarayana.com

By: Santiago

Santiago — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:33:15 +0000

Lou:
could you give more details on how you did that?.. i.e. what actual url you use to have people invite you?. I am trying to do the same…
thks
Santiago

By: Alex Hogan

Alex Hogan — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:20:31 +0000

Good tips..,
I would like to know more about how to promote myself and my services better on LinkedIn.

alex

By: Lou

Lou — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:33:29 +0000

One trick I have used is to create a hyperlink in my email sig ticker that when clicked actually takes people directly to the page where they can send me an invitation to connect networks…works great!
~Lou

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:26:46 +0000

I would love to use the Outlook toolbar, but it (the latest version 2.5.1.1606) crashes Outlook. I have contacted LinkedIn tech support, but they have not responded about it.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:55:52 +0000

I have a suggestion that will result in my using LinkedIn much more than I do: give us RSS feeds of events that happen in our network. I go for weeks without logging into LinkedIn, but I bet I would login more often and poke around if I were to receive realtime notifications via RSS of people in my network changing careers, adding new photos of themselves, etc.

Mark

By: Stephen Collins

Stephen Collins — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:35:47 +0000

These are all great suggestions, and I quite like That Software Guy’s ideas as well. But here’s another – for those of us that use either Apple Mail or Gmail, a toolbar or plugin that facilitates the linkages that the Outlook toolbar does for that group would be awesome and provide significant value to what must be a growing population of your user base.

Any hopes?

By: Small Business Plans

Small Business Plans — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:57:13 +0000

Very nice suggestions and really appropriate for the n\beginning of the year.

By: That Software Guy

That Software Guy — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:33:09 +0000

I agree that these are all great ideas – but there are many, many more things I’d like to do with LinkedIn *and I would pay extra to be able to do them.*

- I’d like to feature my company logo as well as a personal photo.
- I’d like to create a second vanity URL with my company name.
- I’d like to display more URLs on my profile.

I WOULD PAY for extra promotional features like these to help me market my small business. How about it, LinkedIn?

By: Kelly Wissink

Kelly Wissink — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:59:09 +0000

Thanks Surya! These 8 great action steps will help jump start my business for 2008.

I’ve seen my LinkedIn profile generate more connections and links to people in my niche business.

Kelly Wissink