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LinkedIn for Business: Using LinkedIn Answers

LinkedInAlthough LinkedIn is the social media site for businesses and professionals, a lot of people still struggle with how to use LinkedIn to build their business.

One powerful area of LinkedIn is Answers. Within Answers you can find questions from other business people, either in your extended network or by drilling down into categories such as Business Travel, Product Management, and Sustainability. You can even subscribe (via RSS) to your favorite categories to get regular updates of new questions.

By answering questions you can connect with prospects, establish your expertise and build your business. To help you out, I’ve created this video, How to Build Your Business with LinkedIn Answers.

You can also connect with me on LinkedIn at my new public profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/therichbrooks.

Rich Brooks
Are We LinkedIn?

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  • http://www.boldvisionconsulting.com Lynnelle

    Nice & concise. I haven’t spent much time on LinkedIn Questions or Groups, but I have gotten good feedback and work from it. I need to allocate a little more time to it. Also, I love the way you’ve organized your iGoogle home page. I’ve been using the Google Reader and that’s become unwieldy of late.

    Thanks for the post.

  • http://www.boldvisionconsulting.com Lynnelle

    Nice & concise. I haven’t spent much time on LinkedIn Questions or Groups, but I have gotten good feedback and work from it. I need to allocate a little more time to it. Also, I love the way you’ve organized your iGoogle home page. I’ve been using the Google Reader and that’s become unwieldy of late.

    Thanks for the post.

  • http://www.flyte.biz brooker

    Lynnelle,

    I think both groups and answers are helpful. Groups has connected me with more people locally, where answers tends to cast a wider net. (Although this is also in part due to a lot of the groups I belong to are Maine-centric.)

    I never used Google Reader, but kind of stumbled into iGoogle and then realized I could add any RSS feed to it.

    Thanks for leaving a comment!

  • http://www.flyte.biz Rich Brooks

    Lynnelle,

    I think both groups and answers are helpful. Groups has connected me with more people locally, where answers tends to cast a wider net. (Although this is also in part due to a lot of the groups I belong to are Maine-centric.)

    I never used Google Reader, but kind of stumbled into iGoogle and then realized I could add any RSS feed to it.

    Thanks for leaving a comment!

  • http://www.squaremartinimedia.com Alan Underkofler

    Simple and to the point post. I really enjoyed how you recorded and how you discussed adding the question categories to your RSS reader. iGoogle rocks as a reader and adding question categories is a great idea! Great job Rich!

  • http://www.squaremartinimedia.com Alan Underkofler

    Simple and to the point post. I really enjoyed how you recorded and how you discussed adding the question categories to your RSS reader. iGoogle rocks as a reader and adding question categories is a great idea! Great job Rich!

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