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What is LinkedIn?
Douglas KarrThanks for stopping by my personal blog on Marketing Technology! Over 50,000 visitors a month find my content worth returning for, so don't forget to subscribe to the Marketing Technology Blog RSS feed or to the Marketing Technology Email to have new content sent directly to your inbox. You may also find my other business blog helpful, Social Media Domination.
What’s LinkedIn? Why should you join LinkedIn? Here’s another great video from the folks at CommonCraft on just that topic!
The one thing I will say is that LinkedIn isn’t all that effective, for the most part, for finding or sourcing Vendors. The approach mentioned requires you to push your need at the time you have it to people who may or may not have the time or the referrals for you. At VendorCity, we’ve reversed this process and ask business owners and professionals to put their recommendations online. That way, it is always there and accessible the moment the need arises. Not only are you then able to immediately find the vendor you require when the need arises, you are also rewarding good vendors with additional business to anyone in the VendorCity community.
By the way, another good article on business networking was recently posted by a UK B2B business owner. It can be seen here:
http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008603o-2000561249b,00.htm
Douglas, I hope you’ll take a moment to checkout VendorCity.com as we think it is entirely different and better way to do business networking and find the best vendors in your area. Drop me a line if you think you’d have a moment to chat about the concept.