Creating Company Profiles on LinkedIn
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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Ronny Vargas November 17th, 2008
Cool, I was waiting for this feature.
Thank you.
Steve Portigal November 17th, 2008
Great. But I don’t see my employees automatically showing up? Does that take a while?
Steve Portigal November 18th, 2008
Okay, now it’s there. Thanks.
Alice November 18th, 2008
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)
Maisy Samuelson (LinkedIn PM) November 18th, 2008
@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.
Francis Grogan, grgprint.com November 18th, 2008
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.
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Ivan Raszl November 18th, 2008
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.
Sharon DeLay November 18th, 2008
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?
Sharon DeLay November 18th, 2008
Forget it…after a few tries, the edit option finally reappeared. Just a little glitch.
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Jeff Tincher November 18th, 2008
thanks for getting this up and running. I’ve been waiting a while to get our training and consulting company listed.
Rohit November 18th, 2008
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.
Christian Lindknud November 19th, 2008
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?
claire stokoe November 19th, 2008
I have been waiting for months for this, its great that its finally live.. Yipeeee
MJ Ray November 19th, 2008
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.
Tom van Brunschot November 21st, 2008
Great.
Tom van Brunschot November 21st, 2008
´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.
Peter Polesel November 21st, 2008
Great stuff. But how can you make the logo bigger. For example like on http://www.new.facebook.com/HRBlockonline.
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Mario Sundar November 23rd, 2008
@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.
Jeff T November 26th, 2008
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.
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Nick Chavis November 26th, 2008
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!
Christian McCarthy December 1st, 2008
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?
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Joe Olsen December 19th, 2008
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
Mario Sundar December 22nd, 2008
@Meeran, @Joe,
I’ve forwarded your request to our company profiles team. Thanks for letting us know.
Mario from LinkedIn
Amanda Payne February 6th, 2009
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…
Mario Sundar February 6th, 2009
@Amanda,
That’s great feedback. I’ve passed it on to the Jobs team.
Mario from LinkedIn
haruman April 3rd, 2009
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…
Dirk Frey April 7th, 2009
@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.
dp May 18th, 2009
How do I edit my company profile?
Dirk Frey May 19th, 2009
@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
Chris July 9th, 2009
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.