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I Did Not Get the Value of LinkedIn? Do You Get It?

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Like many people, I was not quick to join LinkedIn. As a matter of fact one of my friends invited me and it took me 2 months to accept his invitation and join. What I thought was “not another time wasting black whole of a social network”. When I finally joined the network I added people from my outlook and found that several of them where already on the network, a total of 30. I thought, “Cool, I know some people here” so I added them to my network on LinkedIn. After that I joined 4 different groups that where of interest to me including one on venture capital, one on marketing, another for book authors and the last one on keynote speaking.

Now I was on LinkedIn and had my 30 connections, my 4 groups and I thought buy cheap amoxicillin I was done. Then I asked myself: “What next?” I already know the 30 people I added to the network I don’t need them to contact them. I wondered what the value was? What’s the difference between this and Facebook, or MySpace, or Hi5? What’s the buzz on LinkedIn?  Can you use Linkedin for marketing?

For months I did nothing, thinking this was a place to socialize with people you already know. One day I was looking on Google the keywords “Venture Capital” as I was advising one of my customers get some funding. I then visited LinkedIn and logged in. Buy Cialis Then I did a search on Venture Capital once more. Wow, 50,000 + came up. Quickly I noticed that these where not just company names, I was getting the name and many times Tadacip email and phone number of actual people, with photo, title, Ampicillin buy cheap interests, hobbies, all what you would wish for.

The downside of my Venture Capital search is that none of them where connected to me directly so I could not contact them as in LinkedIn it is considered Spam. Now it was clear that this web 2.0 site called LinkedIn had value for self promotion. Imagine if of these Cheap Levitra Super Active+ 50,000 I could have a few hundred connected to me directly. I could call them and ask for advice. I could email them and see if they are interested in my project or ask them to point me in the right direction. Now the task was connecting to them.

I did have some connections at a 3rd level. This means that I know someone that knows someone that knew lot’s of people in Venture Capital. This one contact was my friend Tony. My friend is an engineer and one of his is a Venture Capitalist Exetive. Cialis Jelly order levitra That one person connected me with 300 people at a third level. If I really wanted to speak with one of those 300 people I could ask Gustavo for an introduction through his customer; but that was not my idea, I did not want just one connection, I wanted hundreds, or thousands.

I played more with the software and did more targeted searches by clicking on “Advanced Search”. On the search I looked under the zip to see the contacts close to me. Some western union california merced other words I searched included “energy drinks” and “bottled water”. For every search I got great contacts. I thought this could turn out to be my very own private rolodex.

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Jorge Olson is an author, speaker and entrepreneur.  You can find his latest book on self promotion and cheapest viagra online pharmacy levitra marketing “The Unselfish Guide to Self Promotion” on Amazon.com  You can read more about how to use social media and social networking from his books and blogs.

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