Linkedinformed Podcast. The Linkedin Show

In this special episode I take a break from the normal format to concentrate fully on a comprehensive review of LinkedIn's Sales Navigator product.I believe that this product is critical to the future of LinkedIn who are still trying to break away from an unhealthy reliance on their flagship Recruiter product so I thought it was about time I upgraded and gave Sales Navigator a thorough appraisal.What is Sales Navigator?The first thing to understand about Sales Navigator (SN) is that it is not a conventional premium account. It's DNA comes from the Recruiter product and so it sits separately from LinkedIn.com.To access SN you click on a link from within your normal LinkedIn account which opens a separate tab with a different user interface. Premium accounts are basically normal accounts with added features, SN is very different and is designed for people who are focussed on using LinkedIn as a social selling tool.It is principally a lead generation and social listening tool, it's not a CRM (contact/customer re

A review of LinkedIn's messaging app.

LinkedIn wins a UK podcasting award.

New LinkedIn Acquisition. Fliptop, the lead scoring business announces LinkedIn takeoverLinkedIn launch a new app called LookupForeign spies use LinkedIn to recruit civil servantsEx Tesla engineer joins Apple - How LinkedIn profiles are making corporate secrets harder to keep!Slideshape changes it's name to 'LinkedIn Slideshare' and announces an interesting new feature called clipping. It would be great if they brought this technology to LinkedIn.LinkedIn share price hit by worldwide stock market crash but hasn't recovered as well as others.Users are reporting a change to their LinkedIn inbox. The invitations and archive folders have gone now but you can still see your invitations, they are just in a different section.CommentaryIn this interview with Forbes magazine Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn CEO) reveals that they are currently testing a new messaging feature for LinkedIn. This is great news and not before its time. What do you think it will be like? Will it be on the desktop app or mobile or both?I can't wait to

A change from the normal format this week as I interview the team behind Autopilot for LinkedIn. A system that allows you to view multiple profiles automatically.On the call are Scott Offord and Philip CardwellI have been using Autopilot for about 10 weeks now and i have been really impressed with the resultsIt is really important to note that using Autopilot is NOT just about getting profile views, this is merely an indication of potential. In order to make your profile views count you need the following;A strong profile picture that grabs the viewers eyeA clear and focused headline - this may change depending on who you are viewing.A targeted advanced search of your prospects that has been saved.Follow up with prospects who view you back with an introduction, not a sales pitch.Connect once contact has been made.Because Autopilot views more profiles than possible on a free account you will need to upgrade your LinkedIn account to a Business Plus premium account (you may have the option of a free months trial

NewsGroup Managers can now send unlimited messages to their members in the 'participants' section.LinkedIn release information from their economic graph regarding job migration.LinkedIn joins up with that famous 'great leader'(?) Alex Ferguson to find great British business leaders (and help promote Ferguson's book!).Blabbing with Blam.im. Krishna De has created some excellent instructional videos on blabbing here.You can now buy .grip domains but LinkedIn.gripe is not available.SSI update, I think that to improve my 'Engage with Insights' score the following four areas are importantStatus updates and published postsComments and likes of both the aboveDiscussion activity in groupsInMail response ratesCommentaryWhat is a connection and does this change over time? The following post from a senior executive at Facebook got me thinking.Is trimming your connections a good idea? I can see how it would help with engagement and that is a very important aspect of using LinkedIn but it would also reduce your opportunit

Is this the end for Google Plus?LinkedIn Publishing now available for Portuguese speakersPublishing soon to cover other languages starting with French & GermanPresumably this provides opportunities for new INfluencers?Group discussions seem to be getting more likes. Have you noticed a difference?Finally the biggest news of all this week is that this show has been shortlisted in the management and marketing category at this years UK Podcasters awards! Thank you to everyone who nominated the show, I am really excited and honoured to be in the top three in this highly competitive category.Now I need you to VOTE for the show to see if we can win! Please click on the image below to register your vote for the show....just imagine if we won?!CommentarySocial selling Index is now available for all of use, just click here to see yoursWhat is the social selling index?Is this just a ploy to get people to buy LinkedIn Sales Navigator?QuestionThanks to Gary Stockton for sending is his voicemail this week with a questi

LinkedIn's U-turn on connections.

News    China passes 10 million LinkedIn members    Google+ share link disappears from published posts    There is a bug with skill endorsements    You can no longer download your connections! Well you can but it comes as part of the archive and takes a couple of days to arrive.    New LinkedIn Slideshare lead generation feature    Slideshare presentations are appearing in some channelsCommentary    LinkedIn ads could work if you combine them with Google re-marketing.....and you have a decent budget!    Lottery ticket updates have no place on LinkedIn    How often do females get harassed on Linkedin? This is the blog post I refer to.    Keeping your profile up to date. These politicians show varying levels of accuracy        Jo Swinson - good work, lots of information and fully up to date      &nbs

NewsAustralian politician suffers extortion attempt via LinkedIn from a fake anti child trafficking advocateThe best LinkedIn profile pictures are "slightly happy" This subject was also covered in my other podcast WinbussinesIn I was sexually harassed on LinkedIn and it made me question the site's credibility...not me, that's the title of the article I referred to! I also mentioned the website socialcreeps.comCommentaryPositivity works!  I am a great believer in the power of engagement on LinkedIn. Too many people post updates that receive no comments or further interaction but it has been an observation of mine that when you do engage on other people's posts you often attract negative comments and people even start to attack you!People become very brave online and are often unnecessarily rude, something they would be highly unlikely to do to your face! I see this on a regular basis and find it quite depressing because all this does is discourage people from engagement.When commenting on LinkedIn keep yo

News    Two new LinkedIn apps are rumoured to be in the works. A new Groups app and one called 'LookUp'.    Instant messaging may finally be coming to LinkedIn!    LinkedIn's new marketing podcast    Check out the LinkedIn profiles of your website visitors with this hack. Disclaimer - Do this at your own risk, I'm giving it a try on a dummy account and will report back next week.    Over 1 million users are now publishing on LinkedIn    How being a 'hot girl' on LinkedIn attracts attention.    The Prophet Chrome extension has been working really well.    You can now add any skills you want, including made up silly ones!    This podcast has been running for 18 months now and over that time we have built a strong community of loyal listeners and followers. I really enjoy collating all the weekly news, thinking of interesting topics, interviewing guests and getting your feedback

Plenty to talk about in this week's show from Web clippers and extensions to LinkedIn admitting they too hate quiz updates!NewsLynda.com shareholders cash in on LinkedIn takeover and cause LinkedIn's share price to fall.Evernote updates its web clipper allowing very useful integration with LinkedIn profiles.LinkedIn are now ranked as the 2nd largest job board in the world....even though they are not a job board!LinkedIn wins case against Irish domain registrant.Searching a connections connections is now back! You now can also search the shared connections of a 2nd tier.3rd tier connections can now be saved to contacts.You can now follow anyone from the front page of their profile (see below)Interesting interview with LinkedIn's VP of Engineering. In this piece he reveals that LinkedIn do not look kindly on quizzes and other Facebook type posts (as discussed last week). See clip below and you can read the whole article here.Questions 1.      Sanity check: I got really excited about the tag

News    LinkedIn have a private 'invite only' bug bounty program.    LinkedIn's 'Member first' focus apparently boosts satisfaction and engagement - really?    LinkedIn appoint a new Chief Marketing Officer.    Economic graph projects are appearing all over the world    LinkedIn IT department in top 10 places to work    There is a better way to search a connections connects, it's not a complete workaround as you can't search keywords but you can filter. All is explained in the video below.CommentaryWhere is the Line? I asked subscribers to my LinkedIn updates service the following question;Where's the line?LinkedIn status updates and posts have definitely changed over the last couple of years. What was once a place where we only saw serious topics we now see puppies, quizzes, cars for sale and even naked women (I'm not kidding!)I'm in favour of LinkedIn being inclusive, I really don't buy into the idea of it only being f

News    Measuring Gender Diversity with LinkedIn Data    LinkedIn's weird names for software. An explanation.    Have you taken up the offer of a free trial of Lynda.com?    Viveka Von Rosen's excellent article on LinkedIn mobile    LinkedIn's economic graph comes to Manchester in an attempt to bridge the skills gap. This is also an interesting Q&A from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority perspective.Commentary    This week I take a look at LinkedIn's new revamped Pulse mobile app. Are LinkedIn at last starting to get the hang of mobile apps? You can view my video review belowQuestionsThis week I have a question for you! Although the above post/comments are funny there is a more serious point that I believe is worth discussing in next weeks episode.    Should LinkedIn just be about 'serious business topics?    Is it becoming more like Facebook and is that a bad thing?  &n

NewsLinkedIn accused of making little progress on diversityHave you claimed your one dollar compensation yet?This published post claims that group messages are restricted to 15 a month! I can prove otherwise.LinkedIn skill endorsements 'chain mail' (below) comes to LinkedInLinkedIn shared some interesting stats about their publishing platform this week.CommentaryHave you registered your LinkedIn profile url yet?Running an event? You might find this article about promoting it through a LinkedIn published post useful.LinkedIn 'Dark patterns' - How to unlink your LinkedIn address bookQuestionsThe administrator for our company page has left the company and I wish to take over administration of the company page myself. How do I do this?ANS =  Firstly make sure that your primary email address is your work email and that your LinkedIn profile has you currently employed at the company that you wish to administer the company page for. Go to the company page and scroll down until you see the "want to help manage t

In this show I talk about how we can all benefit by being more 'sociable' on LinkedIn but first, lets cover this weeks newsNews    LinkedIn group ownership protected in US legal case    Strange LinkedIn profile phrases spoken by actors in this video    LinkedIn invitations 'reason' can be seen after all, it's in the archive folder!    LinkedIn Stock rallies this week.    LinkedIn's weird New York office    Does this new LinkedIn group indicate that groups are safe for now?    Glitch alert! Viewer numbers are not showing in LinkedIn posts    Are LinkedIn disconnecting us? Let me know if this has happened to you.    Customized invitations are now seen on the mobile app, but still not on the desktop shortcut.screenshot2015-06-03_07-36-07_am.pngCommentary    Are you being 'sociable' on LinkedIn?    A recent survey conducted by Pew Research Center foun

NewsSenior LinkedIn Executive hints at why superusers are being ignored by stating they are "making products universally usable regardless of ability"Report claims that Twitter is now the number one social media tool for sales people - I really doubt it!LinkedIn engineer states "We have to constantly re-iterate the recommendation process and make sure that our members always get relevant results by analysis of various user statistics" in this interview. I wonder what those statistics are?CommentaryThe Ingredients of a great post:Topical subjectEye catching headlineStriking header imageAsk a questionAlternative answers work wellTagged for a channelKeyword rich (channel keywords)Quote others (link to their profiles)Link to your websiteSend it to individual connections and ask them to commentReply to all comments and try to keep the conversation goingShare on other channelsRe-share later (if still relevant)And finally....luck!Here is a link to Greg Coopers article on LinkedIn published postsQuestionsI used to se

NewsCEO's prefer LinkedIn & Twitter. In fact LinkedIn is the outright winner really!Why Asia matters for LinkedInUnfortunate names on LinkedIn!LinkedIn are now restricting group messages to 50 a day.Hilary Clinton signs up to LinkedIn but hasn't put skills in her profile - sensible lady!Indian woman 'outs' LinkedIn sexual harasserCommentaryThis week I interviewed a florist from Grimsby about how she has had success with LinkedIn for my other podcast Winbusinessin and she revealed several real golden nuggets.I recently put some LinkedIn profile autoview services through their paces and my conclusion is that they have a part to play in how we use LinkedIn. Services mentioned were;AutopilotDux-soup

NewsPublished post sharing via 3rd party apps appears to be broken, links go to main Pulse page.LinkedIn announce Economic graph challenge winners.LinkedIn stock drops to $193Keen computer gamers are getting information about future game titles from LinkedIn profiles. This article and this one are two separate examples.Jeff Weiner admits "We are sending some members too many emails"!CommentaryPosting articles and links in LinkedIn groups is not effective unless you are actually creating a discussion. People are treating groups as poster boards for 'interesting' articles but all that does is lower the amount of interaction and provides no benefit to the person that shared the link.I was shocked to see these stats recently;Article 1 - 348 views - 41 LinkedIn sharesArticle 2 - 162 views - 302 LinkedIn sharesWhen I explored this in more detail it turned out the the vast majority of the shares of article 2 were people sending the post to multiple groups (each one counting as a separate share). Clearly these group

NewsLinkedIn imposes a limit of the number of group messages that can be sent.Confirmation that the commercial use limit on search is not just the amount of searches but also the number of profile views.Groups lose stats feature but gain a new 'about' page which includes the members section.27,000 US intelligence staff on LinkedIn revealed in a recent report.LinkedIn introduce 'who's viewed your posts' feature.LinkedIn celebrate their 12th anniversary by featuring members stories, I especially enjoyed this one.India surpasses 30 million LinkedIn membersLinkedIn's share priced dropped below $200 last week and still remains weak.CommentaryThis new web product claims to assess someone's personality from their LinkedIn profile. It sounds crazy but my experience is that it is amazingly accurate! Here are the results for meQuestionWhy do some people put their name in their professional headline?ANS= This allows people to be able to see your full profile even if they are outside of your network. When you search for