It is sort of a step in the right direction. Personally, I would rather have the option than having it happen automatically, but the convenience outshines the drawback.  After accepting, you can send a message right then and there.  This message, what we call a Thank You Message, is a terrific way to get ROI from LinkedIn.

In our LinkedIn trainings (400 so far) we teach to send Thank You Messages as a way of drumming up business.  Give it a try and see your wallet get thicker.

We have a wealth of great tips in our hot new LinkedIn book entitled Rock The World with your Online PresenceSee the Book Site

Rock The World Book Cover Mike-Lori 1-14-10

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We’ve got some great news for you… We wanted to let you know we’ll be speaking March 19-21 at Jeff Mills’ upcoming “Boost Seminar” in St. Paul, Minnesota. And there is a great chance you’ll be able to meet us and the other speakers at that event to network and learn together how people are making money online as well as building successful businesses with internet marketing practices.

Go here now and sign up for their free training: http://www.shopgoldmills.com

Jeff invited Mike and Lori to be his guest on a special tele-seminar which took place February 9th at 8:00 EST.

Once you sign up for the free training via tele-seminar (or webcasts), you’ll get to hear about his fantastic conference and all the other great speakers coming to the Boost Seminar.

Why You Need to Attend Seminars:

Networking at these internet marketing events are some of the best business boosting tasks that I think you should be focusing on. I can tell you for a fact, it’s helped me in my own business, meeting people at events and making deals happen.

So, to hear the tele-seminar, just go to

http://www.shopgoldmills.com

and sign up to listen in on the call where Jeff and the IA team shared some great content.

NEWS: We have 10 FREE Passes to Jeff’s Event!

How would you like a free ticket to Jeff’s event?

Normally Jeff charges $997 to attend, but if you enter the code: lrboost on the checkout page, you’ll see the price go to ZERO. (You’ll need to do this quickly cause these tickets will all get picked up fast).

Now, we cannot do this for our entire list, we’re not sending out an email, and it’s only the first 10 absolutely serious people. If you wait, they’ll all be gone for sure, so be one of the 10 people now. After 10 are gone, you’ll have to pay the current price. It’s worth it, but FREE is better!

Listen to the call!

Sign up at the Link Below:

http://www.shopgoldmills.com

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If you follow the LinkedIn best practices we teach (and many other experts as well), you are making use of most, if not all of the text space that LinkedIn allots in your profile. This is especially important in the Headline, Summary and Specialties – prime real estate.

Well, things just changed and some people will be really scratching their heads on this one. LinkedIn just made a Carriage Return count as 3, yes 3, characters. As LinkedIn and Rock aficionados (see our Rock The World LinkedIn book), we are always “living on the edge” to discover the way for others.

We uncovered this when I went to DELETE a couple of characters and found that my profile was now 24 characters too big as I went to save changes.

Yep.  All those CR’s now count as 3 characters vs. 1 like it has been since LinkedIn was born. LinkedIn is directing people to clump text together vs. spreading it out to make it easier to read. 

Another step backwards that reminds many of the moment LinkedIn limited single invite text to 200 characters and eliminated invite text ENTIRELY when inviting more than 1 person (can you say IDK?).  See related story.

This picture illustrates the point.

Carriage Return is 3 characters pon LinkedIn

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After years of struggling on LinkedIn with check boxes (scrolling a list, checking box after box, scrolling some more, checking box after box, etc.) my business partner Lori Ruff  finally stepped in and showed me a shortcut. So, this is really HER post you might say.  Lori was a Microsoft Certified trainer previous to being a The LinkedIn Diva.

If you are staring on your LInkedIn screen at a list that has check boxes included in it, like when sending a message to a group of people, you can use a series of space bar (right hand) and tab key (left hand) that will let you go do 50 selections in almost no time.

You still must go one letter of the alphabet at a time in MOST cases. It doesn’t skip from the end of one letter to the beginning of the next. Still, it is heaven when you are doing sends on LinkedIn.  Thanks Lori!

Let me know if this helps you.

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A Rockin’ Who Are You? (WAY) Cool Online Presence

January 14, 2010

A Who Are You? Profile that Rocks Their World
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Enjoy a WAY Cool Profile & Network done by the Experts
Your Who Are You? “Rock The World” Profile could be developed in a matter of weeks by a team led by the team at IA Social Media, Mike O’Neil and Lori Ruff.
These heralded social media subject matter [...]

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LinkedIn Career Question

January 9, 2010

I received this question via LinkedIn today. My response follows.  After I hit Send, I realized how often I am asked this or similar questions and thought it prudent to add it as a blog post for people to refer to as they needed rather than waiting for my response. Please tell me if this [...]

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Linked To…

December 25, 2009

Wouldn’t it be great if the local and regional LinkedIn groups were to band together somehow? Frankly, I am surprised it hasn’t happened.
With a 7 year history and a name like Integrated Alliances, we might be a logical choice for it. We just don’t have the time with our big Rock The World [...]

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What Makes a Great LinkedIn Recommendation?

December 19, 2009

In all the training that we do here at Integrated Alliances, this is one of the areas that people ask the most questions about – Recommendations.
First of all, you need to have real meaningful business interaction with someone to have a credible recommendation.  You are not recommending the person, but their actions as a business person.  [...]

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Facebook too complicated? Try Facebook Lite

December 2, 2009

 
 
 
I was just introduced to Facebook Lite by Social Media expert Nick Armstrong.  This may be just what the doctor ordered for seemingly 90% of the people out there that are frustrated by the sheer complexity of  its Big Brother – the tiny icon’s, the terminology, the options, the hidden this and that.
What’s the difference?  [...]

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The New LinkedIn… “way cool”

November 20, 2009

There have recently been rumblings of a new user interface for LinkedIn. I’ve been waiting for more information along with everyone else, trying to find time to read the relevant blogs. Getting Mike’s book off to the publisher and getting through a very busy week were my highest priorities however, so I was surprised to [...]

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LinkedIn Gets Another One Right!

November 11, 2009

LinkedIn’s new Twitter connection has been long in the works; but it was worth the wait! Not only can you now update your LinkedIn status with Twitter, which you DO NOT want to do, but you can target specific Twitter updates to populate your LinkedIn status by including the hastag #in in the Tweets.  Now, [...]

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How will the FTC control Social Media?

November 5, 2009

“New FTC Rules for Social Media!” posted by Go-To-Market Strategies based in Seattle, WA
provides a good summary of the new rules that go into effect December 1.  Essentially, it requires transparency in an industry that purports to be transparent. There are many bloggers and tweeters that promote products and services for which they are an affiliate. The [...]

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