Can you please help me with LinkedIn!

How do you position or Sell IT services to and software ‘C’ Level executives?

When I was selling software it was done the old fashion way… a lot of work and a lot of time…

Now with LinkedIn it is much easier…

Did you know LinkedIn has 7.9 Million Business Decision Makers and 5.5 High Tech Managers?  As a matter of fact I’ll be giving a Webinar on how to use LinkedIn for sales and marketing on Thursday: Click Here to Sign Up to the LinkedIn Webinar

For San Diego Residents: Learn to Become a Self Promotion Superstar

Attend the Unselfish Self Promotion 1 hour presentation as well as Question and Answer session.

Place: San Diego County Office of Education

Address: 6401 Linda Vista Road, San Diego, CA 92111

Date: Saturday May 22nd

Time: 1:45 PM

I will be presenting major self promotion strategies form my book “The Unselfish Guide to Self Promotion” on self promotion and self marketing at the District 5 Toastmasters Spring Conference. Join me for an hour of learning, fun and entertainment.

Is Private Equity Back?

Is Private Equity Back? Are Deals in the Flow? Tell us your experience.

How is business? Are you getting more deal flow, better access to investors and capital? What is the change from last year?

Visit the group here: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=875017   

Jorge S. Olson
Group Manager 

Your LinkedIn Profile Has Been Suspended

I tried to log in to my LinkedIn account as I do every day and to my surprise I read “Your LinkedIn Profile Has Been Suspended”.  Oh my god!

My LinkedIn Profile was Suspended Without Notice!

My account, my contacts, my groups, my business and my marketing are all suspended.  Yes, I do a lot of business on LinkedIn and use it every single day. How what?  What happened? Did I do something wrong? Did I use my LinkedIn Profile incorrectly? Can this happen to you? YES!

I needed to get my LinkedIn Profile back online pronto!

Immediately I visited the FAQ in LinkedIn and searched under “suspended accounts” I read every single question and answer.  No, I did not send unrequested emails or invitations, no, I did not spam, no, I did not do anything wrong.  What happened to my LinkedIn Profile?

After reading the FAQ portion I quickly submitted an email through the web form in the LinkedIn profile suspended account section of the professional social network.  I waited 2 days and nothing.  No account and no response.  Now I visited the social network again and read all pertinent information I could find.  Finally, I found a customer service email.  I quickly send an email explaining my situation and asking for clarification, an explanation or any response.  Even apologizing for whatever unintentionally I could have done to merit a suspended account.

Next day I received a response and my LinkedIn Profile was activated.   What happened?

New Rule!  You may only use the “First Name” and “Last Name” section of your LinkedIn profile for your first name and last name.  You can’t add anything else.  What does this mean?  Well, as a marketing tool I wrote clever messages after my last name on my LinkedIn profile. This is a marketing headline strategy to get more attention, more click-troughs and more exposure.  This is what I had:

Jorge Olson – Just Published a Beverage Book

When you do a search on the site for “beverage”, or “book” my name always came up. Furthermore when someone invited me to join their network or just browned my name they would know I just published a beverage book.  I did this by simply going into my LinkedIn profile and writing the text after my last name.  Now LinkedIn does not permit any messages at all; just your name.

How can this affect you? Simple, you can’t use this strategy on your LinkedIn profile anymore. It also affects “open networkers”, the people who accept all invitations and want to expand their network as they can’t announce they are open networkers anymore. May people belong to groups like LION or TopLinked and other groups of open networkers who require you write their name after you last name; you can’t do it anymore.  Many more of you might write your email after your name to invite people to network, remove it.  These are some of the common uses of your LinkedIn profile name that are being cracked down:

Jorge Olson – jorge@ jorgeolson.com

Jorge Olson – LION

Jorge Olson – TopLinked

Jorge Olson – Phone: (619) 852 6942

Jorge Olson – Any marketing message

If you have something after your last name remove it today before you get a surprise next time you log in to your LinkedIn profile. To learn more about how to have a great LinkedIn Profile visit all the other great post on the LinkedIn Marketing Home-Page.

Keynote Speakers Network on LinkedIn

Network with thousands of other Keynote Speakers, Event Organizers and Speaking Bureaus on this new group on the LinkedIn.com Social and Professional Network.

Professional Keynote Speakers and Event Managers learn abound keynotes, events, technology, knowledge and topics for presentations, seminars or training. It is an active group that talks about sales, books, marketing, social media, and other self promotion and tactical information.

Join the social network LinkedIn.com and then the group Keynote Speakers to network with Professional Keynote Speakers, Presenters and Trainers as well as Seminar and Conference Organizers. The network is based in Southern California and welcomes members form all over the world. Updates are made every two weeks and we have meetings in Southern California.

Join the Group Here: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=883047

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