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How Can I Help You with LinkedIn?

March 21, 2009 by Sean Nelson

Over the last year I’ve written a book about LinkedIn, written over 70 blog posts, presented numerous talks on LinkedIn, created a tool to grade your profile and presence on LinkedIn, and used LinkedIn to enhance my networking and grow my business.  If I am to be considered a LinkedIn expert, I’m not your typical expert.

My background isn’t in training, I didn’t start doing this with a plan, and 15 months ago I had 19 connections and no clue how to use LinkedIn.  I’m not a social Media expert.  All that I am is a small business person that was referred business based on my LinkedIn profile.  At that point I decided that it would be in my best interest to learn as much as I could about LinkedIn.

Since December of 2007 I have tried to learn as much as possible about LinkedIn.  I’ve read every blog, article and bit of data I could find about LinkedIn online.  Then I started documenting my experience.  This led to trying to write a short guide about how to use LinkedIn as a gift to the people I was connected to.  This guide grew into a 115 page eBook and this blog.

There are a lot of LinkedIn experts.  I make it a point to read Jason Alba‘s blog.  Chris Rollyson always leaves my head spinning with his take on LinkedIn.  Peter Nguyen is another one that I keep up with.   Scott Allen is another favorite. And finally, I just discovered Neal Schaffer’s blog.    Each of these people provide me with a different perspective.

I once wrote that if they are writing text books, my contributions would be considered a comic book.  And that’s OK because I think there is a section of people out there that are looking for a simple, everyman perspective on LinkedIn.

You won’t walk away from my blog thinking you’ve just read War and Peace, but Bloom County or Calvin & Hobbs provide worthwhile perspectives too.  Any day that you can manage to get Bloom County and LinkedIn into the same conversation isn’t a bad day.

Filed Under: LinkedIn Tagged With: bloom county, Chris Rollyson, how to use linkedin, jason alba, LinkedIn, networking, Peter Nguyen, Scott Allen, sean nelson, Social Media

About Sean Nelson

Sean has been a Keynote speaker at Norvax University, conducts social media workshops and webinars, and has released three books on LinkedIn and written several social media guides.

Sean currently runs Social Media Sonar, which in addition to providing free resources, manages social media strategies and tactics for companies. He is also a partner in Surge Labs, a conversion rate optimization company, helping companies improve conversions and profitability through scientific testing of Landing Pages, Websites, Email communications, and Shopping Carts.

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