How to Find Talented Interns for Your Small Business through LinkedIn

Summer Interns Bring Value When You Least Expect It!

It’s summertime and remarkably there are hundreds of thousands of students looking for summer jobs or internships. This is the best time to get some really talented and bright students who can help you or your business and to leverage man power to increase your revenue.

I was recently talking to a close friend of mine that is about to finish up her exams and she is

Who is on LinkedIn in May 2010?

LinkedIn is growing every single day.  For me, it is one of the best sources of leads, sales, even website traffic with up to 40,000 unique visitors per month.  What is LinkedIn doing for you?

These are the last numbers from LinkedIn membership in May 2010.

·         LinkedIn has over 65 million members in over 200 countries.

·         A new member joins LinkedIn approximately every second, and about half of our members are outside the U.S.

·         Executives from all Fortune 500 companies are LinkedIn members.

The last time I reported on LinkedIn members it had 45 million.  Wow, now it is up to 65 million members.

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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.

Recording on How to be a Super Open Networker on LinkedIn – Tele-Seminar

Don’t forget to review the LinkedIn For Marketing, Sales and Self Promotion presentation by clicking this link 

WHY be an open networker on LinkedIn?

LinkedIn is a professional network – a social network for grown ups

It has 30 million professionals

It is a great way of self promotion

You can use it to get a job or sell products or services or get funding

First of all you need to join the following groups:

-LinkedIn For Marketing Group

-GON Global Open Network

-TopLinkedIn Group

-All of the LION groups

-OPEN NETWORK

Joining these groups will allow you to add people at random and most importantly, others will find you and add you to their network.

Automation of your profile

-If you want automation of your profile join the paid subscription at Open Networker Site

-This will add a few thousand subscribers to your network by sending emails to several thousand people informing them that you are a paid member.

Profile

Make sure that you announce on your profile that you are an open networker by writing the words “Open networker accept all invitations” and your email address on your network.

Do a good job at finishing your profile and adding a photo as it will increase your changes of getting invitations.

Don’t forget to sign up for our LinkedIn For Marketing Newsletter to get free videos, audios and strategy once per week.

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Don’t miss part 2 of the Audio Teleconference “Fiding a Job Using LinkedIn”

Learn how to get a job NOW using the social network LinkedIn.com Learn how to treat your job or employment hunt like a sales process and get your dream job today. After you identify the perfect job for you don’t forget to follow up. It is not enough to send a resume or an email. Try to find a connection in the company, follow up with a phone call, be active, and make sure your resume goes to the “A” pile and not to the “B” or “C” pile or resumes.
LinkedIn for Marketing Teleseminar – Radio Show Details

Tomorrow, Thursday March 12 at 3 PM PST 6 PM EST

Listen on the Web:
www.BlogTalkRadio.com/LinkedInForMarketing  

Listen over the Phone:
Phone: (646) 200-4444
Show ID: 422973

If you decide to listen over the web you will be able to ask question as we have a chat tool!

If you miss the live event come back to listen the recording

You can find Part 1 of the teleseminar here http://linkedinformarketing.com/how-to-get-a-job-now/

Don’t forget to sign up for our LinkedIn For Marketing Newsletter to get free videos, audios and strategy once per week.

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