Trust Your Strategy, Not LinkedIn - CareerEnlightenment.com

Have you asked yourself exactly how you are going to meet those people?Theyre there! With 80,000,000 possible connections on LinkedIn, the people you need to know are there. Your job is to find them and make your best impression.LinkedIn as a Yellow Pages, or as a Laser BeamThere are basically two schools of thought on this issue. The first camp, calling themselves LinkedIn Open Networkers, LIONs, believe there is more power with a larger, diversified network. They vow to never say, I dont know him when theyre ,invited to connect.In contrast, there are the LinkedIn Libertarians who follow LinkedIns original premise of networking with folks youve at least had a conversation with, or with whom you have something in common. These folks accept invitations only from people if there is some kind of real connection. Perhaps they met at a trade show, or were referred by someone, or worked together for 20 years.The first part of your LinkedIn strategy will be deciding which camp you fall into , and at what stage in growing your network.Dont let a website make the decision for you. YOU are in control.Decide on a destination for your LinkedIn efforts and map your way back to the present moment. What is your next step?