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How LinkedIn Answers Can Help You to Understand Your Customers

  • January 25th, 2012 by SEM Contributor

LinkedIn is a fantastic online resource for all those interested in learning from their peers. The networking site is growing every year and is now connected with professionals from over 200 countries. The great thing about LinkedIn is that it brings together millions of professionals from across the globe, creating a very useful resource if you are looking for specialist… Read more

5 Simple Steps for Improving Your LinkedIn Visibility

  • October 27th, 2011 by SEM Contributor

So you have got yourself a LinkedIn profile and are all set to build up your professional network. A natural question at this point would be how to set your profile up in such a way that it stands out from the 120 million other profiles out there. How do you attract the right visitors to your profile?
How do… Read more

The World’s Top Ten Social Networks

  • September 21st, 2011 by SEM Contributor

Social Networking has become a global phenomenon over the past 8 years and continues to grow year on year. So we’ve all heard of the big players like Twitter and Facebook, but there are thousands of Social Networking sites out there, many of which have been left by the wayside since the introduction of Facebook. Let’s take a look at… Read more

LinkedIn Adds Volunteer Experience, Why It’s Great for Your Career

  • September 13th, 2011 by SEM Contributor

LinkedIn, the social network for business professionals and recruiters, added a “Volunteer Experience & Causes” section to users’ profiles. The new section lets users showcase their charitable and volunteer experience. It also makes for a more complete LinkedIn profile and online resume.

Under the new section, users can give information about causes they support and their experience. First, users check… Read more

Is Your Business Social Enough?

  • August 22nd, 2011 by SEM Contributor

In a day and age of ever-growing social media, how much importance does your business place on this subject?
Marketing one’s company is more important than ever given the struggling economy and the fight for every business dollar. Is your company positioned to take advantage of the social media revolution?
If you are not currently using social media or are… Read more

LinkedIn Launches Virtual Profile Adviser

  • August 15th, 2011 by Cijo Abraham Mani

LinkedIn is the best platform for your online professional identity. A complete and up-to-date profile in LinkedIn helps you gain new professional connections and job updates. The “Improve Your Profile” Tool was launched to help professionals personalize their profile. This tool recommendations help you redesign your profile page.
The PDF downloading capability is going to help every LinkedIn user. The… Read more

LinkedIn: The Targeted, Professionally Social Network

  • July 12th, 2011 by SEM Contributor

Business networking has moved beyond the corporeal boundaries of business dinners and cocktail parties and into the ether world of the Internet. LinkedIn is arguably the most effective professional and business-oriented social networking organization available today.
Whether you are looking for a job, have a job to offer, are searching for investors or want the perfect contact for a business… Read more

Is There a Benefit to Using LinkedIn?

  • June 23rd, 2011 by SEM Contributor

We have Facebook and Twitter, perhaps hundreds of thousands of forums and websites pertaining to our business niche, email, text messaging, phones – why should we use LinkedIn?  Is it not just another website that will take our or our marketing team’s time up?
The value of LinkedIn, for many, is not the quality of the site or the tools,… Read more

Social Companies Digging Deeper into Data Analysis

  • June 9th, 2011 by Damian Davila

Given the recent performance from the LinkedIn IPO, there is now an ever-growing concern on whether the social media industry is not the newest market bubble (anybody remember the dot-com bust?). While Facebook is the leader in the ad-centric tech that focuses on pouring through volumes of data to learn about people relationships, turning these findings in key insights for… Read more

Discover the Most Talented People in Your LinkedIn Network

  • May 11th, 2011 by Damian Davila

Savvy business professionals spend a lot of time building up their LinkedIn profile so that they can use it both as a presentation card and a way for others to find them.

However, in a sea of LinkedIn profiles, how do you know who’s the best professional out of the bunch?
Based out of Redwood City, CA, Mixtent is a… Read more