Don’t Set It and Forget it

http://www.linkedin.com/companies/ladin-ventures-llcinfo@ladinventures.com

What is it

• Professional Resume• Business Orientated Social Network• Establish Connections• Stay In touch with colleagues/friends• 65 million users and growing

Mistakes Made

• Too Strong Of Profile• Blatant Promotion in Groups or Messages• Don’t Describe Benefits In Profile• Joining a lot of groups• Inviting the world to your network

Grow Your Biz

• Use Advanced Search to find “stuff/people/industries”

• Be FOUND• Status Updates - Import Selective

Facebook/Twitter• Recommend others• Discover Events• Set Up RSS feed based around a search

Small Business Use

• Online Recommendations & Word Of mouth• Find vendors to outsource• Find mentors• Stay up to date with business users

Questions and Answers

• Getting and Answering Questions• Shows industry knowledge expertise• Follow discussions that are important to you• Build buzz by sharing with others

Applications

• Amazon Reading List• Box.net - Google Presentations• Slideshare.net• Wordpress• Typepad• Company Buzz• Trip It

Find The Next Rock Star

• Job candidates• Find out when employees leave (network

updates)

Ever Evolving

• Share links to interesting/relevant articles• Company Profile Section • Research tool to explore and find the right

companies to work for and do business with. • Used for job opportunities • View recently joined the hires w/ company• Company News and Statistics

Mobile

• Biz Card 2.0?• Bump