Since we announced Company Profiles, we’ve received tons of requests from LinkedIn users requesting to create a profile for their company. Now you can. Company Profiles are an important research and marketing tool for your business that can help potential customers, clients and employees learn more about your company and the people who work there.
Here’s how to create a profile for your company
Step 1: Enter your company name and your email address. This ensures that you are a current employee of this company and that your company doesn’t already have a profile.
Step 2: Once your email has been verified, you can provide basic information about your company.
Step 3: Now when you have a skeleton of your company profile it’s time to provide more data about your company. Add location and related companies. Spice it up with logo. Editing a company profile is as easy as the above 2 steps. What’s better is that your colleagues from the company can also edit the information once they’re identified as belonging to a specific company group.
Our resident genius developed pretty amazing algorithms and we’ll be able to add interesting and unique stats data as soon as more people will be connected to this company.
So, what are you waiting for? Check out your company profile on LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/companies). And if you can’t find your company profile, add it here.
Add your own Company’s profile on LinkedIn
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Cool, I was waiting for this feature.
Thank you.
Great. But I don’t see my employees automatically showing up? Does that take a while?
Okay, now it’s there. Thanks.
Very cool!
Will you be doing the same for divisions too soon (example: PayPal under eBay which has a separate profile)? (Our parent company owns our domain name so technically we can’t set up our own company profile)
@Steve we’re working on a way to automatically find all the employees on LinkedIn who work at your company and associate them with the company you just created. For now, employees who are already on LinkedIn can update their profiles to select the company you just created.
Fantastic – I’ve been waiting for this element to be launched for a while! Hopefully this will enable potential print buyers to find our details even easier. Offering bespoke large format print is one thing but letting everyone know about it is another.
Interesting, there are only 2 advertising agencies listed from Hungary and we are one of them. Wonder how long will it take for more to appear. It seems not everybody is quick to adapt new technologies.
I was half way through adding my company and was kicked out as an unauthorized employee (since it’s a two person company and I own it, that’s not the case). Now I can’t get back in to edit it.
Help?
Forget it…after a few tries, the edit option finally reappeared. Just a little glitch.
thanks for getting this up and running. I’ve been waiting a while to get our training and consulting company listed.
Excellent development. However, I have one concern. If I’m not mistaken, all employees with @company.xxx registered email ids, are allowed to edit the company profile. This could be a problem since the employees, after detaching, would continue to retain the right to modify. It could be tricky.
Thank you very much! I do, however, completely agree with Rohit’s last comment.
I would hate to spend my time constantly checking whether anyone quoted in your database as having a “@myxxcompany.com” address has corrected our myxxcompany’s profile.
From what I understand there is absolutely no way that you check whether people who left our company at some time should have the rights to update our company profile. Only when they change their e-mail at their own initiative do you block their editing rights.
Do you have any thoughts on this, please?
I have been waiting for months for this, its great that its finally live.. Yipeeee
Small mistake: I picked partnership from the listbox, so we have partners, not necessarily employees, but it complains if I put 0 in the “employees” box.
Otherwise, thanks for the listing.
Great.
´Sorry, that email domain already belongs to Vallarta Adventures. For further questions, please contact customer service.´
Suggestion: Make it possible to manage 2+ companies at one e-mailaddress, since one person might be responsible for subsidiaries too.
Great stuff. But how can you make the logo bigger. For example like on http://www.new.facebook.com/HRBlockonline.
@Peter,
This is the optimal logo size we thought worked best within the current design.
@Tom,
That’s done to prevent the creation of duplicate companies. Feel free to contact customer service and they can take care of that for you.
Hope this helps.
Thanks to everyone for their comments. Stay tuned for updates to this feature, right here on the blog.
regarding the administration of a company profile. can LinkedIn work to allow Admin permissions to One or even select accounts? I admin other social networking sites, such as Facebook page, for my company and I am the sole admin and can give permission to others. this way, if someone leaves the company they can no longer admin the profile. just a suggestion and hopefully a simple fix on LinkedIn’s part.
Fantastic! One area that would be great is either a newsfeed on most recent news on the company or a place where you can add PR links. Thx again!
Sorry, gmail.com is not a valid company domain. For further questions, please contact Customer Service at customer_service@linkedin.com is the error message I received when trying to create my company profile. I own the company and it is my email address for the company what do I need to do?
Great addition!! Only problem is somehow our domain is associated with another company. I am getting a messgae stating “Vente, Inc.” already owns our domain!?! Anyone else getting this? How did that happen? How do you fix that?
Thanks,
Joe Olsen
CEO
Phenomblue
@Meeran, @Joe,
I’ve forwarded your request to our company profiles team. Thanks for letting us know.
Mario from LinkedIn
If a company is using your Job posting facility – can we have the jobs listed on the profile page too? Would be a great addition…
@Amanda,
That’s great feedback. I’ve passed it on to the Jobs team.
Mario from LinkedIn
I worked in a company named Sema Group a few years ago. The company has now been purchased (once) and merged with another one (once). Because of the email verification system and because the company no longer exists, I cannot create the company profile.
Unfortunately, a group named Sema is already registered (related to cars). As the official name of the company was Sema Group plc (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sema_Group), would it be possible to create the corresponding profile?
Note: I posted on this blog because it seems the current system is definitely missing something about shut-down companies…
@haruman – It is not possible to create a company profile for a closed company as this feature is designed to support active companies with unique email domains. If I have misunderstood and this is not the case, please contact Customer Service by clicking on the link at the bottom of your homepage. They will be happy to investigate further.
How do I edit my company profile?
@dp – You must have a confirmed email address at the company you are wanting to update as well as a current position listed on your profile with that company before you will be allowed to edit a Company Profile. Click on ‘Help’ at the top of most any page for instant answers to questions like the one you just asked. Our Customer Service Library of Frequently Asked Questions is growing daily. Here is a link to the answer currently posted: http://linkedin.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/linkedin.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1591
A bit ‘buggy’, this new feature. First the link to the “create company” page just returns an “Oops” page all morning, then when the page does finally load, I fill it all in and it returns an “unexpected error” message, and dumps my work.
Very useful.
Is there a way to only allow an administrator to post information?
I was wondering whether I can link my linkedin-generated company profile to my group profile? This way the connection could be visible, as well as group discussions, job postings etc.
IS it possible to have more than one admin of the company profile?
RE
“IS it possible to have more than one admin of the company profile?”
Any updates?
Tx
IS it possible to have more than one admin of the company profile?
Where’s the link to start a company profile vs a personal profile?
I tried adding our company several times today, but it always give me this error.. “There was an unexpected problem that prevented us from completing your request.”
My company has two officies, can i create two different profiles using the same e-mail address?
How can i add my company logo to companies area? Pls help
I’ve confirmed my company e-mail address, but it still won’t let me edit our company page. Do I simply need to wait a bit longer, or is something amiss? Thank you.
@Tully,
It should be working now. Else, please contact our customer service teams.
Mario from LinkedIn
I’m a little confused. It seems that anyone in the network would be able to edit this company. Is there any way to allow this only by the administrator?
I am trying to set up a company profile on linkedin. I was able to complete step one and was able to confirm my e-mail address but I cannot add information about the company or make any edits.
we really need to be able to allocate administration functions for the company profiles!
Hi,
Is it possible to change a company’s name after it’s been created? And if so, will that break the connection to employees that are currently connected to the company online?
Thanks!
Hi,
I added more locations to my company’s profile, but they do not appear in View mode. Please advise.
Do you have any idea when I will be able to create a new company profile as the feature seems to be switched off.
Many thanks
Hi. My employee already created a company profile with the company email address. I as CEO (tud@firstdawood.com) would like to admin this and remove him as admin. He is happy for me to take over admin but we don’t know how to make the switch. Please advise.
Any ideas of how to edit a company profile once it’s in the section?
Trying to make some general marketing updates to the description and location of my companies page??
Thanks a Mill!
as of now our company have a profiles, its really cool. thanks..
Hi! How I can change a company name I’ve created? Meaning, if I’ve created a company, doing all those steps you’ve mentioned but then I’ve realized I have put the name of the company in a wrong way (is not a spelling thing but I want to know if for instance sommeone put “Example GROUP” and it’s only GROUP the real and correct name).
Thanks!
Moira
Thank you for this article. Has there been any update on whether or not we can add multiple administrators to a company profile?
I do social media for different companies. Logging into the administrator’s account, often times the company president/owner, is neither comfortable nor professional. Please advise!
What is the step before step one that gets you to the page to create your profile?I cannot access this page.
I keep getting a “forbidden” message when I try to go to “create a company profile”. Am I going to be able to create one even though I ahve a personal profile?
I’d like to setup a Company profile for a division of a global banking client. However, the parent bank owns the email domain and already has the Company profile. Both the B2C and B2B subsidiaries share the same email domain. Therefore, we can’t take advantage of the enhanced Company Profile customer segment targeting feature since we can’t create a separate Company profile page for that purpose. Having a distinct email domain created just for the B2B subsidiary in a banking organization is mission impossible. Any workarounds? This seems to be a huge issue for many large siloed client organizations. Thanks.
Hi,
Can you register a unique url with your company name to include in email footers and printed materials?
Thanks
Kate
Our CEO created our Company page but its my team (Marketing) who would need to manage the page. Is there any way two users can manage the page? How can he give me access? Thanks
I have confirmed my email but linked is still not letting me set up a company? Any ideas?
Thanks, it was really helpful. But, how can I put the name of the company at the link? For example, the link for the company profile I’ve created is: http://www.linkedin.com/company/quartarh—sistemas-para-recursos-humanos?report%2Esuccess=se2U8YjzSfSLqmrvJWfkzmUYKl6uKkphatxlAbbto9OkvCyhhsMCP1nNWIEQv6pq2D50iVxJ
And I’d like it to be something like: http://www.linkedin.com/company/QuartaRH
Could you help me on that?
We are trying to resurrect our company page but the original administrator has left. Obviously we don’t want to have to set up a new company page as this will be confusing for people if there are two versions.
Is there any way we can make someone else the administrator?
I’ve started a separate company facebook page for my QVC show fans but unfortunately my original facebook page is still up and fans are clicking on that instead of the company one. Is it easy to make someone else the administrator of my company page as I want fans to only go to the company one. HELP & advice welcome on how to quickly sort this admin issue out – many thanks.
I am really struggling to add any colleagues contact details to the product pages within our company profile. I am connected with my colleagues but nothing happens when I enter their names – any thoughts/suggestions?
Trying to setup a company profile, following the instructions from the blog but just keep getting …
“We’re sorry that a new company cannot be created at this time. For further questions, please contact us using the Customer Service link at the bottom of this page”
Regards
Keith
I tried to add my company -http://inventikasolutions.com- but I’m getting an error.
Is there any feature to remove past or non existent employees in the pipe line? The company should always have ultimate control over it’s employees. I have a case of misrepresentation by one of my past partners, who resigned after I discovered evidence of misrepresentation. The person today although not part of the company is still claiming ownership of the company. Due to the nature of the problem the presence of this person on the profile may cause harm to the company. I have removed all right to editing, and the persons email address is also no longer valid, but still comes up in the company profile. Which means the person is only coming up cause he declared he is an employee of XYZ, which also means any person can pick and choose the company he wants to be part of….this is not what I would consider safe! Any idea what can be done?
Good morning,
I have seen in a company page on the right a list of afiliated companies. How I can do the same?
I mean how can I relate different companies of the same holding group?
Best regards,
Fabio
Hello:
If I want to create a company profile, can I change the e-mail adress that I have to enter in step 1 later?
Hello LinkedIn,
It seems that you have associated my company email domain with the wrong company as I can’t add a Company Page even after meeting the requirements.
Could you please advise ASAP as keen to make use as the great features on your Company Page?
Thanks
Great news!
I’ve been waiting for this for a long time.
Thanks
1. How do I change an email associated with a company?
2. I have a couple different companies – how can I create a company page for all of them if my email address is already associated with another company?
Hi there,
can i change my company profile name? I tried to contact the linkedin support center, but i did not receive any answers …
You should be able to if you’re the owner.