Episode 98. Twenty Million Brits are on LinkedIn!

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’