Tag Archives: LinkedIn

Time To `De-Link’ a Non-Responsive Contact?

Last week, I recommended three people who had recently LinkedIn with me, bringing the tally of folks I’ve endorsed to nearly 50. For me, the quality of my contacts is much more important than the quantity. In fact, I’m mulling whether to drop one individual from my LinkedIn roster after he did not respond to […]

Marching Out On a Social Media Note

It’s been a social-media kind of day here at Inside Edge PR international headquarters. Walked a block down the street to Marion Street Cheese Market, where I shared some pointers on how to navigate on Facebook, LinkedIn and the like, at “Social Networking Sites–Are You Connected?” Shared photos and some text with Triblocal.com,as well as […]

A Bounce-Back PR Tale, In More Ways Than One

Whenever I agree to represent a business, it must pass my “newsroom vet litmus test.” In other words, if I were writing for a newspaper or magazine and someone pitched the story to me, would I be genuinely interested in at least digging into story suggestions about this company? In September, after a client, Robust […]

The Missing LinkedIn: Personalization

I’ve written about LinkedIn a time or two. Here’s another account, which dates back to two weeks ago, when a woman asked me to connect via LinkedIn. Problem is, I had no idea who she was. Then I did some cursory searching online and discovered that she and I share an alma mater. One would […]

Show Your Value, Don’t Just Talk About It

In story-telling, a key principle is showing, not telling. In other words, rather than say someone was nervous, you would want to convey, via telling details, behaviors that illustrated the nervousness. When it comes to offering a glimpse at my business value, I like to take the same approach: show it, don’t just talk about […]

Anatomy of A LinkedIn Recommendation

In a recent Inside Edge PR post, I outlined my philosophy of why I write recommendations for as many of my LinkedIn contacts as possible. In this post, I share some of the how.My approach to writing recommendations: 1. I do it whenever I feel I have enough knowledge and interaction with someone to write […]

My Recommended LinkedIn Route

At this writing, I have 94 connections on LinkedIn, the professional online networking site. But the figure that I’m more focused on is 35. That’s the number of my connections for whom I’ve written recommendations. In my observation, most folks have a recommendation rate of less than 10 percent, some recommend maybe 1 out of […]