Using Twitter to Help Your LinkedIn Networking and Vice-Versa
Here are a couple of very simple things you can do to increase your success on LinkedIn and for that matter in all of you online business networking. This can also be facilitated by including your FaceBook account in the loop.
Using Twitter to help your LinkedIn business networking
Twitter can be a powerful tool for focusing the type of people in your network. By using their search feature you con find people interested or involved in certain things.
For example, yesterday I went on twitter and searched the term “LinkedIn.” The results were posts about LinkedIn and basically a prospect list of people on Twitter interested in LinkedIn that I could follow and who would likely connect with me on LinkedIn given the chance.
This is such a simple idea most people would probably never think of it. However, in this case, it’s a great way to get more connections and focused ones at that into your network.
You obviously need to put the information in your Twitter account about the fact you are on LinkedIn and that you would be happy to connect.
The other nice thing about Twitter is that they don’t object to you putting your email and contact info on your Twitter page. The simplest way to do this is to create a background with all the information. See my Twitter profile (FlynPenoyer) for an example.
On LinkedIn it technically against the rules to have any personal contact info in your profile and depending on where you put it you could get your account suspended.
How you can use the above to help with your LinkedIn account?
First of all, you can put your Twitter name in your LinkedIn account with out risk and on your Twitter account you can give people the information to connect on LinkedIn. It’s a back door, but its totally safe as opposed to trying to put it in LinkedIn and it gives you more ways to communicate with that person.
Second, of course, you can put in all your communications an invite to follow you on Twitter. Twitters more lenient policies on chatting with others allow you to communicate more easily.
These are very simple ideas but they do add tremendous power to your networking if you use them to your advantage.
I hope you enjoyed this article and please tell me what you think by leaving a comment or asking a question in the comment box below.
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