Posts Tagged ‘networking’
How to turn LinkedIn into a relationship filter
This interview is with Dave Gowel, who has been recognized as a “LinkedIn Jedi” by Inc.com and The Boston Globe. He is the CEO of RockTech and the author of “The Power in a Link: Open Doors, Close Deals, and Change the Way You Do Business Using LinkedIn” (Wiley, December 2011). Gowel co-founded RockTech with Mark Rockefeller [...]
A quick guide to LinkedIn for lawyers
This post was written by Lior Levin, an online marketing consultant for Web hosting companies who works for the master degree in security program at Tel Aviv University. LinkedIn is a business networking site that has become an invaluable resource for business people around the world — including lawyers. The site facilitates easy networking and [...]
LinkedIn IPO: The reason it matters to your day-to-day
This guest post is by Jason Seiden, co-founder of Ajax Social Media. Connect with Seiden on LinkedIn. LinkedIn began publicly trading Thursday, and immediately the stock spiked, rocketing from $45 to $122.70 before retreating to $94.25 at the end of the trading day. So what? Here’s the so-what: LinkedIn is the single professional profile of [...]
5 quick tips to identify and motivate influencers
This post was written by Mirna Bard, a social media consultant, speaker, author and instructor of social media at the University of California, Irvine. SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Social Media — tracks feedback from leading marketers about social media practices and issues. Last week’s poll question: Have you successfully [...]
LinkedIn’s Mario Sundar on getting the most out of your network
Mario Sundar is LinkedIn’s first social media expert. Having been with the company since 2007, you could argue that no one is more knowledgeable than Sundar about LinkedIn, and the ways that it can be used by busy professionals. I recently asked Sundar a few questions in hopes of gleaning some of his knowledge. An [...]
How a LinkedIn title created a qualified lead
This guest post is by Jeremy Epstein, founder and chief marketing navigator at Never Stop Marketing. According to LinkedIn, he is member #146,795 … out of 100,000,000. Frank sent me an unsolicited e-mail inquiring about my consulting services. I had no idea who he was at all. Being the (hopefully) good marketer that I am, [...]
Using enterprise 2.0 tools to ease into your new job
David Spark is a veteran tech journalist and the founder of the media production and consulting firm Spark Media Solutions who blogs regularly at Spark Minute. He was reporting at the Enterprise 2.0 conference for Dice and Dice News. On the first day of a new job, people would always say to me, “We won’t [...]
How to use Twitter to network at conferences
The value in traveling to an industry conference or trade show often has nothing to do with what’s being said at the panels. They can be fine discussion fodder, but the real heart of the experience is often found in the networking opportunities these gatherings present. Not everyone has the gift of being able to [...]
