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98. Twenty Million Brits are on LinkedIn!
Description
News
- LinkedIn hits 20 million members in the UK
- How many users are actually active though? I estimate the figure is nearer to 6-8 million that are regularly using LinkedIn - still an impressive number!
- LinkedIn announce UK top 10 power profiles (most viewed) in 6 categories
- Is a LinkedIn takeover of the Financial Times as crazy as it sounds?
- Top Seven Stupidest Titles on LinkedIn
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Commentary
How do you become a top ten power profile on LinkedIn?
I might argue that Charlotte Proudman must have been in one of those top ten lists but she was excluded - maybe for good reason but who else was excluded?
So what do you have to do to get profile views;
- Being famous obviously helps!
- Laura Chetcuti isn’t famous and her posts are not very well read but she is very active and has 14,000 followers (presumably mostly connections
- Ian Moyse (previous guest and LION) has a massive number of connections (33,772 followers) and came in the top ten technology list.
- Bianca Miller - not especially well read but fairly active and has nearly 11,000 followers. She managed to get into the Leaders list alongside Richard Branson and David Cameron!
Question
is there a polite way to let people know that you are NOT an open networker / LION? Our marketing strategy has led me to be featured by LinkedIn as "someone you might be interested in following" as part of the on-boarding process of the new app, and this has increased my exposure hugely and I've gone from 3,000 followers (2,500 connections) to 16,000 followers in the last 2 months. Nice. But it also means I get invites from engineering graduates from every corner of the globe.... Can I stop that?
Answer = The best way to deal with this would be to prevent people from inviting you to connect, unless they have your email address.
Go to settings > Communications > ‘select who can send you invitations’
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