LinkedIn Groups Tips

I’ve been building up my LinkedIn profile by working on adding lots of groups. It’s a great way to expand your networking reach. Jorge Olson writes about the more effective ways of leveraging LinkedIn in his blog Use LinkedIn for Marketing which covers a wide variety of ways to expand your pool of connections.

I’ve really been using Jorge’s post on How to Close $100,000 In Business With LinkedIn Using 4 Quick Steps. What’s interesting about it is that it has nothing to do with closing a business deal if that’s not your point. What is important is how the four points impact your contact spread.

The keys are to (1) Be An Open Networker (2) Join the Open Network Group on LinkedIn (3) Join 50 Groups (4) Ask Questions. Read Jorge’s post for greater detail on the value of each of key but basically you’re executing everything it takes to be an effective blogger anyway and adding the benefit of volume connections because of the number of groups.

I’m a little more than half way there with my fifty groups. LinkedIn puts a limit on the number of pending groups you can have in the queue so I have to wait for a few more to be accepted and over the next couple of days I ought to have a complete list.

Click on my LinkeIn widget to the left and check out the variety of groups I’ve joined. Once I add the rest I’ll start interacting with the posters and commenters then I’ll really be able to tell you just how effective this strategy is from my own experience. Don’t wait for me to write it about it though. Go ahead and put Jorge’s tips into action today.