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One of the ways that search engines determine their organic listings is based on the number of sites that connect to your site and the relevance of key words.  My site www.atlantahealthlife.com has been up for over 5 years and on a quick search on “Atlanta Health Insurance”  I come up as the 32 listing […]

If you have read the previous posts you noted that the first way I found LinkedIn to be relevant was that It Enhanced My Chamber Networking.  Now we have #2. It Facilitates Receiving Recommendations. I’ve been helping folks with health insurance for 7 years and in that time I have had a lot of positive […]

Every other Wednesday I attend the North Fulton Leads Alliance.  It’s been great to recognize people that I am connected to through LinkedIn, and usually anywhere from 25 to 40% of the people there are connected to me. There are a lot of people though who may have heard of LinkedIn, but either have not […]

Recommendations are a pretty powerful thing within LinkedIn. You can’t write your own, and you can’t edit what someone has submitted for you. You can just decided whether you want to show a recommendation or not. Because of this, each recommendation carries some weight. Read the full story This article is written by Jason Alba, author […]

When it comes to connecting through LinkedIn you will encounter different perspectives on connecting. 1.  LIONs:  These are folks that believe in having as many connections as possible, regardless of how well they know those in their network.  They will typically accept an invitation from anyone.  You can recognize them by their number of connections […]

Byron Lewis is on a roll.  I know Byron through networking and we’ve talked about LinkedIn.  You have to understand that if it involves technology, Byron is usually on the ball.  While he was familiar with LinkedIn he had not really jumped on the bandwagon. Well about a week ago Byron decided to take the jump […]

I’m closing in on a month since I decided to find relevance in LinkedIn.  I have increased my connections to 109, which is much better than my goal of 100 by February 1st.  I still have about 64 invitations outstanding, so I will be personally contacting these folks to talk about connecting. Today’s topic is […]

Over the last month I’ve focused on building my connections.  A natural place to start was with the GNFCC (North Fulton Chamber).  Over the past year I have scanned every card into Card Scan to build a list of people participating in the chamber.  Some of these people I’ve met and some we’ve just crossed […]

Expand, Expand, Expand. One of the first things I do when someone connects to me is take a look at their connections.  I’ve noticed several people that are connected to 15 to 20 people, but its primarily people at their current job.  That’s definitely a good place to start. If you really want to grow […]

This week, Amy Otto (a connection) invited me on her weekly radio show to discuss LinkedIn.  Amy hosts the show with Lee Kantor (a new connection) every Wednesday at 10:00 AM and then posts a podcast online. You can hear the interview by going to http://atlantabusinessradio.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=295090 The LinkedIn discussion starts about 10 minutes into the interview […]