LinkedIn | Jim Rowe Social Media

Do you find LinkedIn a bit of a chore?

Do you find that you go through spates of using LinkedIn then forget about it for days, weeks or even months?

Are you struggling to find the time to “DO” LinkedIn every day?

If you answer YES to any of these then I might just have the answer you’re looking for. Day-to-day LinkedIn should be quick, easy and part of your daily routine. The daily tasks are not about finding your next best lead or about landing the biggest contract your company has ever dreamed of, it’s about Relationship Management. Those relationships have the potential to bring you the next big lead or the biggest cont…………You get the picture.

Business is all about relationships. Social Media is all about relationships. Guess what Business Social Media is about?

I have been giving away my LinkedIn 5-A-Day guide to clients for some time now and many have found it very useful to help get in the habit of ‘touching’ LinkedIn everyday. Now that LinkedIn have had a little redesign I have decided to give the LinkedIn 5-A-Day guide a refresh too.

I will be giving away FREE copies of my guide as soon as it’s available to just 25 people. To get access simply Register for early access using the button below.

The 25 will be picked at random once I reach 100 registrations. Thats a 1in4 chance of getting early access. Not bad odds at all!

Although invite only, and not available in the UK – Yet. LinkedIn Contacts has the potential to disrupt the hosted CRM (Customer Relationship Management) market. It was only recently that I mentioned to a business contact how LinkedIn was missing that key CRM element that would keep me logged into it all day long. Of course LinkedIn are smart and were well aware of this before it even appeared on my radar. Their Acquisition of the technology from Connected back in 2011 proves it.

Keeping LinkedIn users logged in all day has two advantages for LinkedIn’s long-term survival. Firstly they can advertise to us more. Love it or hate it Social Advertising is here to stay. Personally I have no problem with it. Secondly, if we come to rely on LinkedIn for CRM, we are much more likely to want to pay for it. WIN – WIN for LinkedIn and WIN – WIN for consumers.

At JRSM we are gagging to get our hands on it but will have to wait however, we have signed up for early access and once we have it we will thoroughly test it and post a video review too – We’re good like that!

In the meantime why not try to get early access yourself. Simply head over to the LinkedIn Contacts and sign up.

What CRM do you use? What would LinkedIn Contacts need to do to temp you away from your current preferred supplier?

Have you had your LinkedIn 5-A-Day?

LinkedIn Contacts could be the missing CRM element we have been waiting for

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