How to Search the LinkedIn Network for a Specific Person
When you’re ready to find a specific person, use the LinkedIn search engine to scan the tens of millions of LinkedIn members, based on keywords. The two main ways to search the LinkedIn network for a certain [more…]
How to Build a Meaningful LinkedIn Network
LinkedIn is different from other social networking sites because it focuses on business networking in a professional manner. The best use of LinkedIn involves building and maintaining a professional network [more…]
How to Browse Your LinkedIn Connections’ Networks
Finding connections from your LinkedIn connections is a good way to discover valuable connections. Although LinkedIn can help you search the network, sometimes nothing gives as good results as some good [more…]
How to Remove People from Your LinkedIn Network
You might need to remove someone from your LinkedIn network. Perhaps you added the person in haste, or he repeatedly asks you for favors or Introduction requests, or sends messages that you don’t want [more…]
How to Accept or Decline LinkedIn Invitations
When you receive an Invitation to join someone’s LinkedIn network of connections you can accept it or decline it. Remember to decline LinkedIn invitations gracefully so that you don’t burn your bridges [more…]
How to Send a LinkedIn Connection Request
When you’re on a LinkedIn page and spot the name of a member whom you want to invite to your network, you can follow these steps to send that person a LinkedIn Connection Request to add him to your network [more…]
How to Track Sent Invitations on LinkedIn
As you expand your LinkedIn network, you need to keep track of the Invitations you send to your connections and any incoming Invitations. The last thing you want to do is send repeat LinkedIn Invitations [more…]
Advertising a Job Listing to Your LinkedIn Network
When you use LinkedIn to fill a job, however, you will benefit from the pool of job seekers who search LinkedIn’s Jobs page, but you have a distinct advantage: [more…]
How to Find Job Seekers on LinkedIn
One of the powers of LinkedIn is the ability not just to find the active job seeker, but the passive job seeker or someone who didn’t even realize they wanted a new job! Through LinkedIn you can tap an [more…]
LinkedIn Job Search Strategies
When you include LinkedIn in your job search, you need to prepare your total LinkedIn profile and network to get the optimal job search experience. Although no strategy can 100-percent positively guarantee [more…]
How to Approve Members to Your LinkedIn Group
As more and more people find out about your new LinkedIn group, and as members start joining, you may find that some of the people who have clicked the link to join aren’t on your pre-approved list. Perhaps [more…]
How to Market Yourself to Your LinkedIn Network
Optimizing your profile is one of the best ways to market yourself effectively using LinkedIn. Another is to be alert to how well you’re communicating with your LinkedIn network connections. [more…]
How to Market Your Business through LinkedIn
LinkedIn can play a significant role in the effective marketing of your business. LinkedIn’s value as a marketing tool gets a lot of buzz from most companies’ finance departments, especially because they [more…]
How to Get a Services Listing on LinkedIn
If you provide a professional service, such as consulting or freelance writing, be sure to take advantage of the LinkedIn Service Provider directory. This LinkedIn Service Provider directory consists of [more…]
How to Find Marketing Partners through LinkedIn
When it comes to marketing on LinkedIn, your strategy will typically involve more than just you and your business. Part of the success of marketing through LinkedIn is finding the right marketing partners [more…]
Using LinkedIn to Network with Alumni
LinkedIn can help you with your job search by keeping you connected with alumni. Typically, people who share a school in common have an ongoing affinity, whether the school is an undergraduate or graduate [more…]
How to Use the LinkedIn JobsInsider
Because more and more people are using LinkedIn to get the inside track on their job searches, the folks at LinkedIn developed the JobsInsider tool that works with the major job search engines by scanning [more…]
How Joining a LinkedIn Group Helps You
When people who are familiar with other social networking tools are first exposed to LinkedIn Groups, they will see some similarities. LinkedIn Groups involve members list, discussion threads, and so on [more…]
How to Join a LinkedIn Group
When you look at the LinkedIn groups out there, one of the most important things to keep in mind is that you should join only groups that are relevant to you. Although you might think it's fun to join [more…]
How to Search a LinkedIn Group
After you join a LinkedIn group, you’ll probably want to see who’s in the group and how the group members are connected to you. After all, the point of the LinkedIn groups is to stay in touch with like-minded [more…]
How to Create a LinkedIn Group
LinkedIn has many groups to choose from. But if you don’t find a LinkedIn group to meet your needs, you can always create your own. Review these steps so that when you’re ready to create your own LinkedIn [more…]
How to Build a Member List for Your New LinkedIn Group
If many of the members of your LinkedIn group are already connected to you in LinkedIn, you can simply export your connections to start building your member list. Otherwise, the easiest way to build your [more…]
How to Write E-Mail Invitations to Your LinkedIn Group
LinkedIn allows you to send group Invitations from the Groups page because the folks at LinkedIn feel that the Invitations should come from the group owner — namely, you. Therefore, here are some do’s [more…]
Using LinkedIn to Find a Business Partner
LinkedIn is not just a social networking site. You can use it to find business partners, investors, and team members. Now it’s time to seek out a funding partner, or a business partner. LinkedIn is an [more…]
How to Generate Leads with LinkedIn’s Advanced People Search
When you’re ready to start looking for leads, you can rely on the LinkedIn Advanced People Search feature. LinkedIn's Advanced People Search allows you to search the database consisting of tens of millions [more…]










