Todays LinkedOut comic looks at Recommendations.Recommendations on LinkedIn are a great thing. They let others toot your horn while you can do the same or Pay it forward. Here are some tips to keep in mind about recommendations.
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LinkedIn Part 5: I Highly Recommend Recommendations
If you’re a small business or a sales person you’re not selling a product or service, you’re selling yourself. For many, the thought of self-promotion just isn’t one that they are comfortable with. LinkedIn can help you with your discomfort.
Recommendations can serve as an effective alternative to selling yourself.
Service Providers Takes a Back Seat
LinkedIn has four main featured sections on the site. Up until recently it was People, Jobs, Answers and Service Providers. In a recent update LinkedIn Service Providers was replaced by Companies. The Service Providers content is now within the Companies section. Service Providers was probably the least utilized of the four main sections and if […]
LinkedIn Recommendations…Fact or Fiction
Jason Alba recently wrote a post talking about recommendations and made some good points. You can read his full post by clicking here. Having read his post I started looking at recommendations in the Service Providers section (Service Providers used to be a main category, but is now listed under Companies). The most important thing […]