Invitations from people you don’t know can be frustrating! Frustrating because you may not know how to categorize the person for your method of communication system. Personally I like to tag all of my connections. When teaching LinkedIn workshops, I make the participants promise to never send a generic invitation again. Usually I hear an…
Message Center in LinkedIn made some big changes! As I was teaching class on Monday for some job seekers at the Illinois workNet Center in Arlington Heights for Harper College, one of the students said he couldn’t find the option I was showing on the screen. I took a look over his shoulder and sure…
Reply Don’t Accept Yet – LinkedIn feature is still there! I don’t know about you, but I receive a number of invitations from people that I haven’t met. I don’t mind expanding my network through LinkedIn connections, but I try to tag my connections so know where the invitations are coming from is very helpful.…
Next in the series of my Top 5 LinkedIn tips is Invitations Since you have been networking, you have collected a ton of business cards, right? What do you do with all the business cards that you collect? You could do several things with them – toss them into a basket, bag, drawer or box enter…
When you send an invitation to a new connection in LinkedIn, do you use the generic invitation? Please don’t! OK, raise your left hand and place your right hand on your heart. Read the following out load: I promise to never ever, ever, ever, use the generic invitation to connect from LinkedIn. What I teach…
