Comments on: How To Ruin Your Social Reputation on LinkedIn Before it Starts

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By: Melanie Goetz

Melanie Goetz — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:07:21 +0000

You are absolutely correct and unfortunately I initially was “That Person”. Maybe it was because I was nervous about social medial and thus used stock invites. I have since learned to check out websites and learn about who I am trying to connect with. Thank you for the article. Hopefully others will not make the same initial mistake that I did.

By: Christine Best

Christine Best — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:33:38 +0000

I don’t care for responses that ask ‘me’ to do the inviting in order to grow the other person’s network, however if the person is asking to connect and gives a fairly good reason I do connect more often than not. I do take the steps to review their profile though prior in order to see if it is just a spam connection. I agree also that Linkedin is a forum to connect with others even if you don’t know them, it gives a chance to connect with others and potentially learn from those who have more experience in other fields and have more people to bounce ideas off of.

By: Christine Fife

Christine Fife — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:40:23 +0000

Absolutely! Don’t send me canned connect requests. If you know me, fine, I’ll see that it’s you and I’ll accept it, but I’m not accepting from people I don’t know because the “connection” implies you have one.

I think this discussion is missing the most important point of “connecting.” I view this from a conversation marketing perspective (on a friend/personal level who cares how you do it.) From a conversation marketing standpoint, the purpose of connecting with people is to build relationships for interacting with the market conversation and the Influencers who drive those conversation and their Participants and Listeners. By now, every marketing, sales, and business professional should understand that #s don’t necessarily mean anything. Just because a million people accept a connection request to you, doesn’t mean you have a relationship with any of them–so what is the point?

By: Elisabeth Lenain

Elisabeth Lenain — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:42:15 +0000

Excellent advice. Thank you.
When I don’t have time to open the profile of the requester, I generally postpone my acceptation for a better time to give a personal answer. Elisabeth

By: Cheryl Darby

Cheryl Darby — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:11:51 +0000

As a very new user to Linkedin I am glad I joined this group first. The advice will certainly help me start off on the right foot. Thanks

By: Paula Cowan

Paula Cowan — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:44:37 +0000

This is a great article and I’ve read some really good comments regarding this subject. But let’s look at this like educated adults and remember that good advice is just that. One must do what works best for that person in that situation, and everyone is different. Use common sense and be sincere.

By: Kenda Swartz

Kenda Swartz — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:42:46 +0000

I am in complete agreement, and I appreciate how you articulated your thoughts. That which is ideally common sense for some, simply is not. One message I would like to delicately send out and that also impacts a first impression…As a writer, I tend to notice the typos of others much more easily than my own. I was not sure if you meant Your (as in a possessive) or You’re (as in you are) one step closer to never connecting…

By: Peggy Schultz

Peggy Schultz — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:36:57 +0000

You are so right on! I received a request from a fellow Realtor and after finding comments on her site related to “beer bongs” I decided not to be associated with her. Some people just don’t get it…