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Casual Articles - Expanding Your Business Network via LinkedIn
Food, kids, pets, money, health, and sex. Yes, these are each topics with large audiences and interest, at least in North America and some other countries of the world. You may have personal or professional expertise in one or more of these topics. Seems like any of those would be a great place to start writing a booklet, wouldn't it?I would agree, to a point. That point is marketing. Successful, easy, cohesive marketing is based on your level of enthusiasm about the topic you choose topic, and how it all fits in with the rest of your life. If your business is focused on one of those topi
3. Browse over the LinkedIn Q&A section to see if there are people looking to expand their network and e-mail those which reply.
4. Consider adding a link to your profile via your e-mail signature. LinkedIn can provide you a nice signature box with a lot of contact information to include in your outgoing e-mails. Go to My Profile --> E-mail signatures to set one up.
5. Promote your profile on your blog or website.
6. Ask a public question on LinkedIn u
Often you see job postings with a request such as “Send resume with salary history to…” I don’t know about you but the first thing that pops into my mind is what do they expect to pay? The next question I ponder is whether or not it’s legal to request this information. Who will see my salary history when my resume and accompanying documents are received? Will it be the hiring manager, someone in the human resources department, or will it be a notoriously nosy employee whose job it is to open the mail? Will that individual broadcast my confidential information to other employees?Some emplo
LinkedIn is one of several online networking sites aimed squarely at the business community. Others include Ryze, Spoke, Tribe.net, and Xing (formerly OpenBC). This particular site is very powerful if you invest a little time into it, and I would imagine it has massive potential to help you in your career or business. Having a vast network of contacts never hurts regardless of how successful you are at this moment. I choose to focus on LinkedIn due to its membership (more than 10 million people) and its easy to use interface, but I am not affiliated in any way with any of the services mentioned.
Here’s an example of the power of networking based on my own experience using this tool thus far. I joined LinkedIn on Thursday January 4, 2007. Since then my network looks like this: 149 direct connections, 109,500+ friends of friends (two degrees away), and 2,830,900+ contacts three degrees away.
That’s a lot of potential reach! I only wish I had discovered this tool when I was in technical sales. Oh well, better late than never right? Some of the contacts I have made have led to partnerships, but the primary benefit has been the relationships built that have enabled me to bounce ideas off like minded folks, receive real world advice from people in similar situations, and expand the potential reach of my consulting business without investing a lot of money into marketing and advertising.
So, how would one go about expanding their network and reach rather quickly?
1. Upload your contacts from Outlook or your e-mail software. Let LinkedIn search their database to see if any of your contacts exist and invite those people to join your network.
2. Visit http://www.toplinked.com and browse over some of the top linked folks. If you see some that mesh well with your goals and objectives, send them an invitation or direct e-mail to join your network. Most people will do this if you ask politely.
3. Browse over the LinkedIn Q&A section to see if there are people looking to expand their network and e-mail those which reply.
4. Consider adding a link to your profile via your e-mail signature. LinkedIn can provide you a nice signature box with a lot of contact information to include in your outgoing e-mails. Go to My Profile --> E-mail signatures to set one up.
5. Promote your profile on your blog or website.
6. Ask a public question on LinkedIn un
I was reading an interesting story on President Bush in Yahoo News (because, of course, I so seldom get away from my PC). There was a picture of the president trying to make a hasty retreat from reporters in Beijing, only to discover that the doors had been locked. Apparently, he hadn't decided on an exit strategy beforehand. His predicament reminded me of a problem that entrepreneurs may often encounter. The lack of a feasible exit strategy.Why would you need an exit strategy for a plan, a partnership or your relationship with a vendor? Because the consequences are TOO high for you
Here’s an example of the power of networking based on my own experience using this tool thus far. I joined LinkedIn on Thursday January 4, 2007. Since then my network looks like this: 149 direct connections, 109,500+ friends of friends (two degrees away), and 2,830,900+ contacts three degrees away.
That’s a lot of potential reach! I only wish I had discovered this tool when I was in technical sales. Oh well, better late than never right? Some of the contacts I have made have led to partnerships, but the primary benefit has been the relationships built that have enabled me to bounce ideas off like minded folks, receive real world advice from people in similar situations, and expand the potential reach of my consulting business without investing a lot of money into marketing and advertising.
So, how would one go about expanding their network and reach rather quickly?
1. Upload your contacts from Outlook or your e-mail software. Let LinkedIn search their database to see if any of your contacts exist and invite those people to join your network.
2. Visit http://www.toplinked.com and browse over some of the top linked folks. If you see some that mesh well with your goals and objectives, send them an invitation or direct e-mail to join your network. Most people will do this if you ask politely.
3. Browse over the LinkedIn Q&A section to see if there are people looking to expand their network and e-mail those which reply.
4. Consider adding a link to your profile via your e-mail signature. LinkedIn can provide you a nice signature box with a lot of contact information to include in your outgoing e-mails. Go to My Profile --> E-mail signatures to set one up.
5. Promote your profile on your blog or website.
6. Ask a public question on LinkedIn u
Franchise businesses are a great way to extend a brand, concept, and company into multiple locations. Franchises operate under efficient processes and a well-developed business model, which makes replication easy and consistent for every location that is created. Today’s strongest industries can be found in a range of companies including home theater systems, cigar and newsstands, wireless communications, and retail gift cards. Each business has developed its unique selling concept, established a target location, and enjoyed success in growth in the process.Today’s leading franchise bu
That’s a lot of potential reach! I only wish I had discovered this tool when I was in technical sales. Oh well, better late than never right? Some of the contacts I have made have led to partnerships, but the primary benefit has been the relationships built that have enabled me to bounce ideas off like minded folks, receive real world advice from people in similar situations, and expand the potential reach of my consulting business without investing a lot of money into marketing and advertising.
So, how would one go about expanding their network and reach rather quickly?
1. Upload your contacts from Outlook or your e-mail software. Let LinkedIn search their database to see if any of your contacts exist and invite those people to join your network.
2. Visit http://www.toplinked.com and browse over some of the top linked folks. If you see some that mesh well with your goals and objectives, send them an invitation or direct e-mail to join your network. Most people will do this if you ask politely.
3. Browse over the LinkedIn Q&A section to see if there are people looking to expand their network and e-mail those which reply.
4. Consider adding a link to your profile via your e-mail signature. LinkedIn can provide you a nice signature box with a lot of contact information to include in your outgoing e-mails. Go to My Profile --> E-mail signatures to set one up.
5. Promote your profile on your blog or website.
6. Ask a public question on LinkedIn u
That's a lyric from songwriter and musician Neil Innes. It amuses me as a song, but in real life, I'm strongly opposed to the message.I like individual excellence rather than conformist, defeatist, mediocrity. If those words means something to you too, here's what it takes to rise far above the rest of the field - 'massive action'.Thinking is great, it's definitely got its uses, but action trumps thinking. You can have the most brilliant thoughts, the greatest ambitions, conceive wonderful inventions, but until you've taken action, they have no more existence than a computer file y
So, how would one go about expanding their network and reach rather quickly?
1. Upload your contacts from Outlook or your e-mail software. Let LinkedIn search their database to see if any of your contacts exist and invite those people to join your network.
2. Visit http://www.toplinked.com and browse over some of the top linked folks. If you see some that mesh well with your goals and objectives, send them an invitation or direct e-mail to join your network. Most people will do this if you ask politely.
3. Browse over the LinkedIn Q&A section to see if there are people looking to expand their network and e-mail those which reply.
4. Consider adding a link to your profile via your e-mail signature. LinkedIn can provide you a nice signature box with a lot of contact information to include in your outgoing e-mails. Go to My Profile --> E-mail signatures to set one up.
5. Promote your profile on your blog or website.
6. Ask a public question on LinkedIn u
The range of activities associated with the buying of goods and services to support business operations is called procurement. When talking about procurement, planning is the first and most important step in the whole process. Planning involves selecting missions and objectives and the actions to achieve them; it requires managers to choose among alternative future courses of action. Plans thus provide a rational approach to preselected objectives.Planning bridges the gap from where we are to where we want to go. It makes it possible for things to occur which would not otherwise happen. A
3. Browse over the LinkedIn Q&A section to see if there are people looking to expand their network and e-mail those which reply.
4. Consider adding a link to your profile via your e-mail signature. LinkedIn can provide you a nice signature box with a lot of contact information to include in your outgoing e-mails. Go to My Profile --> E-mail signatures to set one up.
5. Promote your profile on your blog or website.
6. Ask a public question on LinkedIn under the answers tab and include in the question your e-mail address so people can expand their network if they’re interested.
7. Post a public invitation, including your e-mail address, asking for others to share theirs much like step #3.
8. Include your e-mail address in your profile on LinkedIn. That way people actively searching for networking prospects can connect directly with you.
9. When you post a comment or reply on message boards, blogs, or user groups, include a link to your profile. Or link back to your website or blog (this is a common search engine optimization trick).
10. Lastly, be easy to access! If you want to be able to connect to a lot of people, now or in the future, think like those people would think and make it easy for them to connect with you. That’s networking 101, but it still applies.
There are some people that do not wish to expand their network because of their current job situation or fear of the Internet. I understand. Yes, it is a risk to post your public e-mail address out there because of spam, viruses, and whatnot, but I haven’t run into that being an issue thus far, and the various e-mail software clients are getting better and better at stripping bogus e-mails out. My contact information is readily available on my business website, blog, outgoing e-mails, and on LinkedIn. I’m not hard to find if someone is really trying. Does that scare me? A little, but I figure if I’m going to be successful in my business, there are trade-offs and risks involved that I just have to take. Since LinkedIn is free to use, why not take full advantage of it? It’s a great tool that can really improve one’s chances at success if utilized properly, and it can help eliminate cold calling if your network is powerful and broad enough.
Hopefully this helps, and I hope you choose to expand your network and connect with some really interesting people out there. If I can help you in any way, please don’t hesitate to ask.
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