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| Nov 23, 2009 9:34 pm |
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LinkedIn Newbies |
John Stephen Veitch
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In my guest book Kayleigh Robinson asked about getting some help on LinkedIn.
Talk about a newbie: Kayleigh is fresh out of the box. She has ONE connection. Here is her public page.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kayleigh-robinson/17/a46/82
If you find Ryze hard and confusing, LinkedIn is 10 times worse. But LinkedIn is also very efficient and it's a great tool to use if you have a lot of connections like I do. 8,000.
But when you have fewer than 30 connections, LinkedIn seems to be a pretty useless tool.
You've seen some shocking statistics for Ryze, if you read the posts in this network? For instance of the 42 November newbies 13 have homepages only viewed by one person in the last three weeks. 15 have homepages only viewed by two people in three weeks.
14 people are making progress.
This isn't unusual, this is NORMAL.
People join networks and do NOTHING.
What I've described is the Active end of the process. About a 1000 new members of Ryze were invited to join Social Networking Newbies for the 42 who joined. Some 20 joined other networks, a few, maybe 40 more will stumble across their membership one day, and choose to become active. The rest, something like 900 people GONE forever.
On LinkedIn it's far worse. People join, they have no connections. That's it. GONE.
LinkedIn try hard to encourage you to look for people you know in the system. ONE connection to someone with 500+ connections gives you a fighting chance.
Most people (50 million members plus) have zero to 5 connections. The mean number of connections is close to FIVE. You need 30+ connections to make LinkedIn useful for yourself.
So get active:
Same rules as applied to using Ryze.
Get your own LinkedIn Homepage in order.
http://www.ryze.com/posttopic.php?topicid=1044746&confid=3530
Join Some LinkedIn GROUPS.
Does that sound familiar?
Visit the homepages of other LinkedIn members. People like the leaders of various groups for instance. Invite them into your network. Explain that you are a beginner
DON'T black flag people who invite you to join their network, by saying you don't know them. If you don't want the connection for some reason, simply archive the invitation.
Knowing Ryze is a great foundation stone for being successful on LinkedIn. It's the same game, but LinkedIn is even less natural to use. Harder in the beginning.
John Stephen Veitch; The Network Ambassador
Open Future Limited - http://www.openfuture.co.nz/
Innovation Network - http://veech-network.ryze.com/
Building an Open Future - http://openfuture-network.ryze.com/Private Reply to John Stephen Veitch (new win) |
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