I spent last night in DC, where I talked about LinkedIn to a financial group in DC. These were savvy, successful individuals whose organizations are just starting to embrace social media. One of the more common questions I was asked during the cocktail hour: “How many LinkedIn connections do you have?” There is a rich [...]
As I write this, I’m in NYC at LinkedIn’s financial services conference. Seeing lots of friendly faces from clients and partners, plus making new friends and connections, too. I’ve also been learning a surprising amount. A few things that have really stuck with me so far: $1.7 trillion-with-a-t has been cut from consumer credit markets [...]
Think you might have a duplicate LinkedIn account? Here’s what to do: Do a search on LinkedIn for your name. If you have a common name, use the Advanced Search (the link to Advanced Search is just to the right of the search box) so you can use additional identifying information, such as your location [...]
Ajax has staffed a couple of “social media labs” at recent conferences, where we’ve put people through a mini-version of our 1-on-1 LinkedIn coaching. (Picture a constant flow of 15 minute conversations about peoples’ profiles.) And, we have some data from these experiences. Below is our assessment of where the value is in LinkedIn training, [...]
“I don’t have a complete profile, what should I do?!” You should chew your fingernails down to the nubs, pull your hair out, and scream. Or, you should chill. Like many social media platforms, LinkedIn scores your degree of site usage. In this case, they score you based on the completion level of your profile. [...]
Are you Bill or William? Mike or Michael? Beth or Liz? Or Elizabeth? It may seem like nothing to you—after all, it’s your name, you’re used to correcting people who get it wrong—but to someone else, knowing what to call you can be the difference between calling you today and calling you… never. I’ve worked [...]
It’s 4:54am in Las Vegas, and I can’t sleep. Yesterday, the Ajax team helped 83 people optimize their profiles at our “Pimp My Profile” kiosk, and I’m going through the data. We had 3 consultants on site, each spending an average of 13.4 minutes with our guests and creating a sheet with notes. I played [...]
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