Category — General LinkedIn tips
LinkedIn expert tip – find people without paying $25
Want to find LinkedIn profiles for “out of network” people without paying LinkedIn $25? Here’s how you do it for free.
February 2, 2010 4 Comments
LinkedIn training tip – new feature for sales people – see who you know someone “through”
A subtle beta feature was added to LinkedIn that will save sales people time. If you “Search Companies”, it will now tell you who you know someone “through”.
December 22, 2009 No Comments
LinkedIn training tip – put the name of your city in text somewhere in your profile
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Put the name of your city (in text form) somewhere in your LinkedIn profile. Otherwise, you may not be found in searches.
December 17, 2009 2 Comments
LinkedIn and Twitter can now cross-post status updates, but it could be much more
LinkedIn and Twitter added a feature that allows you to cross-post, but it just embeds functionality that other software already had. Here are some limitations of LinkedIn status updates, and some features they should implement.
November 11, 2009 No Comments
LinkedIn – the Search People results are no longer “relevant”
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What happened? I used to be #1 in the search results for Patrick O’Malley in LinkedIn, and now I’m not even in the top 90! Did you check to see what happened to you?
This is basically a pointless rant.
August 27, 2009 12 Comments
LinkedIn training – tips for job hunters, Part 1
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Here are 3 tips for job hunters – change your professional headline, answer questions, and put the words “seeking” and “looking” in your profile.
“I hope it’s gonna make you notice, someone like me” – Kings Of Leon
July 8, 2009 No Comments
LinkedIn training tip – Email your Boston connections about a local event
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If you are having a local business event, and you want to send an email to your LinkedIn connections in Boston, how do you do it? It isn’t easy…
June 3, 2009 No Comments
LinkedIn training tip – Hiding your connections
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You can hide your LinkedIn connections, even from your other connections, with a simple switch. Here is how you do it, but it does have a set of implications.
May 29, 2009 No Comments
LinkedIn training tip – Exporting your connections, or “How do I send a bulk email to my connections?”
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You can export some information about all of your LinkedIn connections to a file. LinkedIn doesn’t give you very much of the information that it has, but it will give you all of their email addresses. Therefore, there is a way to send your connections a mass email. However, please don’t be a spammer.
May 12, 2009 No Comments
LinkedIn training tip – Your Professional Headline should be a marketing phrase, not your job title
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The Professional Headline in your LinkedIn profile should not just be your current title. It should be a marketing slogan.
May 7, 2009 7 Comments

