Comments on: SMM Countdown – Why LinkedIn Is Essential If You Want Business Or Work

By: Mitch

Mitch — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:48:46 +0000

First, it’s about time you added a gravatar!

Second, I do think it’s important as a business venture to help spread your influence; man, there’s that word again. lol I went and looked at the Q&A thing and frankly that bored me to death. I seem to be getting many more people who want to connect with me based on what I’ve been writing in some groups.

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:49 +0000

I knew that you must have written something about LinkedIn…

I have a LinkedIn account, but I haven’t even logged in in a few weeks. I take it that you do see a value in it?

I have tried using LinkedIn when I first made the account. I was really active in the Q&A, but then I started to stray away from it because I wasn’t seeing results. I realize that with social media the results are not immediate, which is why I am looking in to becoming more active on it again.

I’m gonna give it another try to be more active on it because it sounds like you think there is a lot of value…

By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:39:58 +0000

Glad to help, Damien. LinkedIn definitely works pretty well for business contacts.

By: damien sayer

damien sayer — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:53:52 +0000

i am a linkedin user since 6 months. but i was not familiar with benefits of linkedin & uses. by reading your post i have earned full knowladge about linkedin. thanks

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:17:14 +0000

I keep wondering why people say it’s hard to use, Carolee. Maybe you need to find a way to get to my social media workshop, eh? lol And you’re saying “strange” people; nope, can’t say that’s happened, since they’re all business people.

By: Carolee

Carolee — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:06:17 +0000

I have a LinkedIn account and quite frankly, I’m not a big fan of it.

I find it somewhat difficult to use, too and I’ve had requests to get linked with some strange people…..

All part of the social networking game though…..

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:25:29 +0000

Actually John, I think LinkedIn is important for even people in your own community. See it like this. Your community probably has a grocery store. That store still has to buy much of what it sells from outside suppliers. If that person was on LinkedIn, he or she might find someone who supplies just what they’re looking for at a much reduced price. And they just might be located near where you live, but no one would know because of losing the opportunity to find those people in LinkedIn.

I have connected with so many local people who I’d have never known existed if it weren’t for LinkedIn. Now, to be fair, I used to think about it like you do now, but they’ve made some very significant changes to it, and as a business force it’s hard to reckon with. Truthfully, being rural would seem to be more incentive to use it than to back away from it. These days, even the Amish realize they need to market to those who aren’t within their community to get what they want.

By: John Dilbeck

John Dilbeck — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:05:21 +0000

Good morning, Mitch.

What you say may be true, but not for me.

Practically nobody I would be trying to work with is on LinkedIn. I’ve met some people I’ve worked with in the past, but I’m going in a new direction and it’s no longer applicable.

I’ve always found LinkedIn to be hard to use, too. Maybe it’s just me and my personal style.

Most of the people I want to work with are on Facebook or other specialized communities and I find they are more effective for me than LinkedIn or sites like MeetUp will ever be.

I’m in a remote rural area. If I still lived in Atlanta or Phoenix and was heavily into consulting, it would probably be an entirely different story.

All the best,