Archive for the ‘LinkedIn Introductions’ Category
Thursday, February 14th, 2013
Sorry for the whiny rants lately.
Recently someone asked me to forward an introduction to someone. When I clicked on the link from my email, I went to a page that was hard to understand. I can't remember if I needed to click on stuff to see the next step or ...
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Friday, January 11th, 2013
I don't go by my first name, I go by my middle name. If you call me by my first name I know you got my name from some government list or something like that. You immediately disqualify yourself from being legit if you don't call me Jason.
Could be the ...
Posted in LinkedIn Connections, LinkedIn Introductions, LinkedIn Profiles, LinkedIn Recommendations | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
Here's a question I recently got from a reader. His question is in bold, my response is not.
>> Is it appropriate to make connections with 2nd degree people on the lists of your connections as long as you have a group in common or they have a contact email address ...
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Monday, June 25th, 2012
I got this email from a friend and JibberJobber user:
As you know, I am looking for work. Each time I find a job ad, I look for a LinkedIn connection to find out if the job is active or who is the hiring HR or manager is. The only response ...
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Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
There are a thousand ways to do it right and a thousand ways to do it wrong. I wanted to share some thoughts from one I got this morning. This comes from Carol to one of my second degree contacts:
My question there is.... what next? If I'm Dan, what do ...
Posted in LinkedIn Connections, LinkedIn Introductions, social networking | 1 Comment »
Friday, September 3rd, 2010
I get this regularly. I think this is poor logic and irresponsible connecting.
Just because we share a group means we should connect?
Please... please give me a better reason. Tell me how you found my Profile (same group - that's okay) and then tell me WHY it makes sense to connect.
I'd ...
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
I'm reading through the post on the LinkedIn professional headline and Peter Osborne's great feedback to those who have left comments (I'll probably close the comments in a while). One thing that jumps out is ... how to put this... BORING.
Why is it boring... that's the question I'm asking myself. ...
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
In the last post I talked about how to cheat the system by joining Groups (in regards to contacting people you find on LinkedIn).
Here's another tactic, though, which I've used. When I find a target contact I will use the internal messaging if I have to. I like LinkedIn Introductions, ...
Posted in LinkedIn Companies, LinkedIn Introductions, LinkedIn Profiles, Using LinkedIn | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Last week I wrote about LinkedIn Companies, and the work I'm doing prospecting people on LinkedIn.
I was comped an upgraded account on LinkedIn (thanks LinkedIn!) and have really loved it... I have the ability to communicate with people I'm not connected with quickly, easily and immediately.
However, if you don't have ...
Posted in LinkedIn Groups, LinkedIn Introductions, Using LinkedIn | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
I recently was asked how to request a LinkedIn Introduction. I love Introductions for a few reasons which I talk about in my LinkedIn book and the LinkedIn DVD (2 hours of training!). Here I'll share the mechanics of HOW to do it.
You would use the LinkedIn Introduction request when ...
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