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10 Tips to Be Successful on LinkedIn

Ari Herzog

LinkedIn launched on May 5, 2003 (on my mother’s birthday) and currently has 277 million members — with two new people creating accounts every second. Here are updated LinkedIn statistics to impress your boss or your mom. This is most important — as 40% of LinkedIn users visit the site every day.

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15 Tips To Optimize Your LinkedIn Initiative

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

LinkedIn has enjoyed explosive growth since its debut in 2003. The real question is whether or not you’re making the most of your LinkedIn efforts and networking in general? LinkedIn is so much more than social networking for businesses and business people – it can totally change how you run your business as a whole.

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Linking Up on LinkedIn

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Launched in 2003, LinkedIn is a business-related social networking site. Mainly used for professional networking, the company reported more than 100 million registered users as of March 2011. With last month’s LinkedIn stock market launch the company is more talked about than ever. Overview of LinkedIn.

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LinkedIn, Social Media And Bubbles

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Late last week, LinkedIn became the biggest U.S. Beyond the hype (the stock doubled in price on its first day of trading) to confusion ( The Atlantic ran a Blog post titled, Did Bankers Scam LinkedIn Out of Over $130 Million? ) The big question is: is LinkedIn just hype or is this the real deal? I joined LinkedIn very early on.

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B2B Marketing needs a stronger Why

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Which reminds me of what Eric Schmidt recently said – that every 2 days we create as much information as we did from the beginning of time up to 2003. The problem is, most B2B companies don’t have a strong why. Share this on Linkedin. What you do, How you do it and Why you do it. Tweet This! Share this on Facebook.

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Five Reasons NOT To Use LinkedIn as Part of Your Job Search

SocMed Sean

With over 800 million users worldwide, LinkedIn is one of the most popular social networks. While LinkedIn offers some value in the job search arena, it may not be the best tool for the job. While LinkedIn offers some value in the job search arena, it may not be the best tool for the job. A Little History of LinkedIn.

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The Life Cycle of a Social Network

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Later, several other websites such as Classmates.com and Friendster contributed to the development of social networking to help reach our present day scenario, where we see the domination of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+. Launched in 2003, MySpace concentrated on the music niche. How can social media benefit your business?