This post is for you, please comment and suggest additions below. We consider this post to be the Ultimate LinkedIn Resource Guide for Using LinkedIn. This page is the result of more than 40 hours of work from our team here at Linked Strategies, aimed at providing a consolidated resource for anyone needing information about LinkedIn.
LinkedIn is an ever increasing Professional Network. Currently at 170+ Million users (June 2012), the platform is used by professionals around the world, including job seekers, human resource departments, sales, business development and professionals of every sort. LinkedIn is one of the world’s most ideal professional business tools online today. The following are resources for everything on LinkedIn you would need for research, resources, “How To’s”, strategies, insights and much more.
| Founded | May 5, 2003 |
| Company Overview | LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network on the Internet with more than 100 million members in over 200 countries and territories. The LinkedIn website launched in 2003 and currently counts executives from all Fortune 500 companies as members. |
| Mission | Connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful. |
| Contact Information |
LinkedIn’s Phone Number:
650-687-3600
How to reach a live person:
Press 1 when recording begins
Email:
Hours of Operation:
Mon-Fri: 9am-6pm PST
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Company Background (Source: http://press.linkedin.com/about)
- LinkedIn started out in the living room of co-founder Reid Hoffman in 2002.
- The site officially launched on May 5, 2003. At the end of the first month in operation, LinkedIn had a total of 4,500 members in the network.
- As of September 30, 2011, professionals are signing up to join LinkedIn at a rate that is faster than two new members per second.
- The company is publicly held and has a diversified business model with revenues coming from hiring solutions, marketing solutions and premium subscriptions.
LinkedIn Facts (Source: http://press.linkedin.com/about)
- As of November 3, 2011, LinkedIn operates the world’s largest professional network on the Internet with more than 135 million members in over 200 countries and territories.
- Fifty-nine percent of LinkedIn members are currently located outside of the United States.
- There were nearly two billion people searches on LinkedIn in 2010. Based on third quarter 2011 metrics, LinkedIn members are on pace to do more than four billion searches on the LinkedIn platform in 2011.
- Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., LinkedIn also has U.S. offices in Chicago, New York, Omaha and San Francisco. International LinkedIn offices are located in Amsterdam, Bangalore, Delhi, Dublin, London, Melbourne, Milan, Mumbai, Munich, Paris, São Paulo, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto.
- The company’s management team is comprised of seasoned executives from companies like Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, TiVo, PayPal and Electronic Arts. The CEO of LinkedIn is Jeff Weiner.
- LinkedIn is currently available in fourteen languages: English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean,Malay, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
- As of September 30, 2011 (the end of the third quarter), LinkedIn has 1,797 full-time employees located all around the globe. LinkedIn started off 2011 with about 1,000 full-time employees located all around the globe, up from around 500 at the beginning of 2010.
LinkedIn’s Official Resources:
Overview
- What is LinkedIn?
- Training Resources
- Customer Service
- LinkedIn Help
- LinkedIn Support Center
- LinkedIn Sign In / LinkedIn Login Page
- LinkedIn Products
- LinkedIn Statistic Resources
- LinkedIn Blog
- LinkedIn New Features
- LinkedIn User Agreement
- LinkedIn Service Provider Directory
- LinkedIn Mobile Apps
- LinkedIn Terms of Use
Marketing Resources on LinkedIn
- Learn LinkedIn/ LinkedIn Tips
- LinkedIn Corporate Marketing Products
- LinkedIn Marketing Solutions
- Contact LinkedIn’s Marketing Department
- LinkedIn Ads
LinkedIn’s Social Links
- LinkedIn Twitter Page
- LinkedIn Facebook Page
- LinkedIn YouTube Channel
- Check out the Video on YouTube on What is LinkedIn by CommonCraft
Site Features
- Homepage
- Profiles
- Jobs
- Groups
- LinkedIn Today & Signal
- Company Pages
- Answers
- Applications
- Mobile
- Settings/Personalization
- Find People
- Find Jobs
- Find Answers
- Find Companies
- My Account Settings
- My Profile
- My Contacts
- My Inbox
- Tools
- Outlook Toolbar
- Browser Toolbar
- About LinkedIn
LinkedIn Official Groups (Ran by the Corporate Office)
- Marketing Innovation with LinkedIn
- LinkedIn Mobile
- LinkedIn Students and Grads
- LinkedIn for Journalist
- Friends of LinkedIn (You need to be an employee for access to this one)
- LinkedIn for Good
- Women at LinkedIn (You need to be an employee & a woman for access to this one)
- The LI Massage Team (This is pretty cool!)
(We believe there is a few more Official LinkedIn Groups – If you know what they are, please comment them below and we will get them added)
User Guides (According to LinkedIn Corporate)
- Visualize your LinkedIn Network with InMaps by Ali Imam
- 100 Million Members and counting… by Jeff Weiner
- Top CEO Names across the Globe: Bad, Bland or Brand? by Monica Rogati
- The New LinkedIn Platform: Help Build the Professional Web by Adam Nash
- Introducing LinkedIn Skills by Peter Skomoroch
- LinkedIn Student Job Portal: Helping Recent Graduates Find Jobs by Christina Allen
- Introducing LinkedIn Today by Liz Reaves Walker
- The Power of LinkedIn Everywhere: Apply with LinkedIn by Jonathan Seitel
- Privacy, Advertising and Putting Members First by Ryan Roslansky
- LinkedIn Files Registration for IPO by Steve Sordello
Worldwide Membership (Source: http://press.linkedin.com/about)
- 135m+ professionals around the world as of November 3, 2011
- 31m+ members in Europe as of November 21, 2011
- 8m+ members in the UK as of December 6, 2011
- 3m+ members in France as of November 29, 2011
- 3m+ members in the Netherlands as of December 6, 2011
- 2m+ members in Italy
- 2m+ members in the DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland)
- 2m+ members in Spain as of December 1, 2011
- 1m+ members in Belgium
- 20m+ members in Asia and the Pacific as of November 21, 2011
- 13m+ members in India as of December 21, 2011
- 3m+ members in Southeast Asia as of November 21, 2011
- 5m+ members in Canada
- 6m+ members in Brazil
- 2m+ members in Australia
- As of October 2011, LinkedIn counts more than 14 million students and recent college graduates around the world as members
LinkedIn and Business (Source: http://press.linkedin.com/about)
- As of September 30, 2011 (the end of the third quarter), LinkedIn counts executives from all 2011 Fortune 500 companies as members; its corporate hiring solutions are used by 75 of the Fortune 100 companies.
- More than 2 million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages.
- LinkedIn represents a valuable demographic for marketers with an affluent & influential membership.
- More than 40,000 developers are using LinkedIn APIs to create innovative tools and services for professionals, averaging over two billion API calls per month.
- There are now more than 180,000 unique domains actively using the LinkedIn Share button on their sites to send content into the LinkedIn platform. Referrals from LinkedIn to publisher sites around the Web are up more than 75% between June 30, 2011 and September 30, 2011.
- LinkedIn members are sharing insights and knowledge in more than one million LinkedIn Groups.
- As of September 30, 2011, mobile page views account for more than 11 percent of total member visits to LinkedIn.
- As of September 30, 2011, hundreds of thousands of job applications have been submitted using Apply With LinkedIn.
LinkedIn Financial Metrics (Source: http://press.linkedin.com/about)
- Total revenue advanced 126 percent year on year to $139 million. This was our eighth straight quarter of accelerating top line growth and our fifth straight quarter of more than 100 percent growth.
- Hiring Solutions revenue was $71.0 million, increasing 160 percent compared to the year ago period. In the quarter, hiring solutions comprised 51 percent of total revenues compared to 44 percent last year.
- Marketing Solutions revenue was $40.1 million, increasing 113 percent compared to the prior year.
- Premium Subscriptions revenues ended the quarter at $28.4 million, up 81 percent year-over-year.
- According to comScore, unique visitors (including members and non-members) averaged 87.6 million in the quarter. In September, LinkedIn ranked as the 34th most visited website worldwide, according to comScore, up from 54th just one year ago. ComScore measured 7.6 billion page views in the third quarter.
LinkedIn Books, eBooks, Guides
The following is a list about LinkedIn books – Free, Paid, Physical & Digital. We of course have our own, including a free resource called The LinkediN Quick Start Guide eBook which you can get here http://www.linkedstrategies.com/quickstart, and our very popular book titled: LinkedIn Mastery: An All Inclusive Guide to Mastering LinkedIn, whcih you can get here http://www.linkedstrategies.com/mastering-linkedin-ebook/. The following books are some of the top books on the market about LinkedIn, please let us know which ones you like the most and why.
- LinkedIn Mastery: An All Inclusive Guide to Mastering LinkedIn by LinkedStrategies.com, Author Nathan Kievman
- I’m on LinkedIn now what? by Imonlinkedinnowwhat.
com , Author Jason Alba - LinkedWorking by LinkedWorking.com, Authors Frank Agin and Lewis Howes
- LinkedIn Quickstart Guide by LinkedStrategies.com, Author Nathan Kievman
- Maximizing Linkedin for sales and social media marketing by WindmillNetworking.com, Author Neal Schaffer
- Windmill Networking: Understanding, Leveraging & Maximizing LinkedIn by WindmillNetworking.com, Author Neal Schaffer
- Rock the World with your Online Presence by Rocktheworldbook.com, Authors Lori Ruff and Mike O’Neil
- The Power Formula for LinkedIn Success by PowerFormula.Net, Author Wayne Breitbarth
- Graduate to LinkedIn by GraduatetoLinkedIn.com, Authors Melissa Giovagnoi and John Fowler
- LinkedIn for Dummies byDummies.com, Author Joel Elad
- How to REALLY use LinkedIn by Jan Vermeiren
- LinkedIn Makeover by Donna Serdula
- The Power Formula for Linkedin Success: Kick-start Your Business, Brand, and Job Search by Wayne Breitbarth
- Windmill Networking: Understanding, Leveraging & Maximizing LinkedIn: An Unofficial, Step-by-Step Guide to Creating & Implementing Your LinkedIn Brand by Neal Schaffer
- How to Use LinkedIn for Business by HubSpot (E-Book)
- The Power in a Link: Open Doors, Close Deals, and Change the Way You Do Business Using LinkedIn by Dave Gowel
- Using LinkedIn by Patrice-Anne Rutledge
- How to Make Money Marketing Your Business on LinkedIn by Jamie Turner
- LinkedUp: The Ultimate LinkedIn Job Search Guide by Chris Perry
- LinkedWorking: Generating Success on LinkedIn … the World’s Largest Professional Networking Website by Frank Agin and Lewis Howes
- Top Secrets for Using LinkedIn to Promote Your Business or Yourself by Gini Graham Scott
- Rock the World with your Online Presence: Your Ticket to a Multi-Platinum LinkedIn Profile 2nd Edition by Mike O’Neil, Lori Ruff, Michael J Dowling and JD Gershbein
- How to Succeed in Business Using LinkedIn: Making Connections and Capturing Opportunities on the World’s #1 Business Networking Site by Eric Butow and Kathleen Taylor
- 42 Rules for 24-Hour Success on LinkedIn: Practical ideas to help you quickly achieve your desired business success. by Chris Muccio, David Burns and Peggy Murrah
- How to Find a Job on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and Other Social Networks by Brad Schepp and Debra Schepp
LinkedIn Articles, News & Resources
Business Development / Marketing / Sales/Lead Generation
- A Guide to Generating Leads on LinkedIn
- 33 Ways to Use LinkedIn for Business
- 100+ Ways to Use LinkedIn
- Top 5 Ways to Market Your Business With LinkedIn
- LinkedIn for Business Marketing Hub
- LinkedIn: Do you know who is Viewing Your Profile?
- 11 Reasons You Should Use LinkedIn for Your Business
- Top 10 LinkedIn Business Marketing Tips
- 20 Tips to Becoming Successful on LinkedIn -
- How to use LinkedIn to Build an Advisory Board
- Using LinkedIn for business: an introduction
- 16 Smarter Ways to Use LinkedIn to Build Your Business
- Simple Tips to Maintaining Top of Mind Awareness through LinkedIn
- 2 Simple Tips to Maintaining Top of Mind Awareness through LinkedIn
- Google Results for About LinkedIn
- Small Business Success Summit
LinkedIn Profile Optimization & LinkedIn SEO
- LinkedIn Profile Optimization
- LinkedIn Profile Search Optimization
- 15 Tips To Optimize Your LinkedIn Initiative
- 5 Keys to LinkedIn Optimization
- 5 Simple Tips to Optimizing Your LinkedIn Profile
LinkedIn SEO & Keyword Optimization: How to Rank over Millions in Minutes
How to Build Your Personal Brand on LinkedIn
- Build Your Personal Brand on LinkedIn by Dan Schawbel
- 5 LinkedIn tips on effective personal branding by Dan Schawbel
- LinkedIn Strategies for Personal Branding by Debra Wheatman
- Use Your LinkedIn Profile as a Resume by Alison Doyle
- Creating a Presence w/ LinkedIn Groups by Efesa Origbo
- The 10 LinkedIn™ Strategic Steps to Success by Nathan Kievman
- How to use Linkedin to build a Powerful Personal Brand by Dr Amit Nagpal
- LinkedIn Mistakes: Top 5 Ways to Kill Your Credibility INC Magazine Online, Geoffrey James
- What McDonald’s Can Teach Us About Our LinkedIn Profiles by Nathan Kievman
- Unlock the Secrets of LinkedIn INC Magazine Online, Marta Tabaka
- Using LinkedIn for Competitive Intelligence Linked Intelligence, Scott Allen
Career Management
- Career Management with LinkedIn by Kimm
- LinkedIn and career management by Jason Alba
- Successful Career Management via the LinkedIn approach! by SVProjectManagement.com, Author Dr. Shree Nanguneri
- LinkedIn as Resume 2.0 – by Linked Intelligence, Author Scott Allen
Job Search
- How to Use LinkedIn in Your Job Search
- 6 New LinkedIn Job Search Tips by Jason Keath
- LinkedIn and Your Job Search by Alison Doyle
- LinkedIn Job Search Secrets by Kevin Donlin
- Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn to Find a Job by Guy Kawasaki
- How to use LinkedIn for Job Searching by Laura Schneider
- How to find a job on LinkedIn by Jason Alba
- 5 Quick Steps to Get Your LinkedIn Profile Noticed by Cheryl Palmer
Recruiting
- Use LinkedIn for Recruiting Employees by About.com, Author Susan M. Heathfield
- Optimize Your LinkedIn Company Profile for Recruiting by Mashable.com, Author Sharlyn Lauby
- How To Use LinkedIn For Recruiting by BusinessInsider.com, Author Nick Saint
- How To Recruit Globally Using LinkedIn by OpenForum.com, Author Sharlyn Lauby
- 6 Tips on LinkedIn for Recruiting: My Advice for Recruiters & Headhunters by WindmillNetworking.com, Author Neal Schaffer
How to Network on LinkedIn
- 15 Ways to Grow Your LinkedIn Network by WindmillNetworking.com, Author Neal Schaffer
- LinkedIn Open Networking? by LinkedStrategies.com, Nathan Kievman
- 10 Steps to Grow Your Business and Your Network with LinkedIn by Dotconnectorblog.com, Author Regis Hadiaris
- LinkedIn Power Tips for Growing Your Network: Lewis Howes Interview by FastCompany.com, Author Rich Brooks
- How to Handle Recommendation Request By a Stranger by LinkedStrategies.com, Author Nathan Kievman
- The Single Most Important Benefit Of LinkedIn by How-to-Really-use-LinkedIn.com, Authors Jan Vermeiren and Bert Verdonck
- 6 Reasons To Connect With Everyone On LinkedIn by LewisHowes.com, Author Lewis Howes
- LinkedIn Profile Tips: The 10 Mistakes You Want to Avoid and Why by WindMillNetworking.com, Author Neal Schaffer
- 5 Simple Ways to make the Most of your Time on LinkedIn™ by Nathan Kievman
- How to Identify a Fake LinkedIn Profile & What to Do About It by Nathan Kievman
- My Personal Policy Regarding Accepting LinkedIn Invitations by How-to-Really-use-LinkedIn.com, Authors Jan Vermeiren and Bert Verdonck
- Networking Secrets with LinkedIn Master Lewis Howes by TheRisetotheTop.com, Author David Garland
- How to Handle Recommendation Request By a Stranger by Nathan Kievman
Leading LinkedIn Strategists, Trainers, Consultants & Speakers
The following is a list of the top LinkedIn Educators, Trainers, and Consultants that are my friends, peers, competitors and people whom I may not know, but greatly admire for what they do. I only lead with myself because I am a LinkedIn Strategist, Trainer, Consultant & Speaker. The list is in no particular order, everyone on this list is amazingly intelligent and experienced regarding LinkedIn.
Nathan Kievman - Digital & Social Media Strategist | SM Lead Generation & Client Acquisition Specialist | LinkedIn Sales & Marketing Training & Services | Keynote Speaker | Author (http://www.linkedstrategies.com/)
Jan Vermeiren - Networking Speaker, LinkedIn Expert (http://how-to-really-use-linkedin.com: FREE bestseller), Generous Networker (http://www.generous-networkers.com)
Neal Schaffer - Author, Maximizing LinkedIn for Sales & Social Media Marketing | Social Media Agency Executive, Coach & Speaker (http://windmillnetworking.com/)
Lewis Howes - Author of two LinkedIn Books | Founder of the Sports Executives Association | Social Media Marketing Speaker (http://www.lewishowes.com/)
JD Gershbein - SOCIAL BRANDING Consultant ♦ SOCIAL NEUROMARKETING Specialist ♦ SOCIAL NETWORKING Strategist ♦ Author ♦ Global Speaker (http://www.owlishcommunications.com/)
Viveka VonRosen - Social Media Authority. Host of #LinkedInChat on Tue Night.★ Writing “LinkedIn Marketing: An Hour a Day” for Wiley&Sons (http://linkedintobusiness.com/)
Scott Allen - Multi-talented, Entrepreneurially-minded Web Professional, Founder of www.LinkedIntelligence.com (http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com)
Jason Alba - Author | LinkedIn Expert | CEO of JibberJobber.com (http://imonlinkedinnowwhat.com/)
Jerome Leonard - LinkedIn Strategist & Trainer | Principal Siebel Technical Account Manager at Oracle Corporation (Oracle.com)
Stephanie Sammons – Founder & CEO of Wired Advisor – Inbound Marketing Solutions (Social Media) for Financial Advisors & Wealth Managers (WiredAdvisor.com)
We truly hope you found this post valuable and helpful. We have put a lot of sweat into it and look forward to your feedback and additions. This list is a living post. Please add your comments, make suggested additions and insights below and we will add as often as we are able!
To Your LinkedIn Success!
Linked Strategies Team
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Thanks Ross… we are working on one for Groups as well, would love your help, ping me.
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Hey Viveka… thanks for the Love. Of course it’s alright to use it as a resource in your Book. Let me know when you get it published, I will share it with the group as well.
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