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The power in a link : open doors, close deals, and change the way you do business using LinkedIn

Author: David Gowel
Publisher: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, ©2012.
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"Make your LinkedIn account work for you and your businessLinkedIn is not just another social media tool. It's the world's largest professional online network, with an expected 100 million users in mid-2011, and active in over two hundred countries. How to Use LinkedIn shows you how to utilize this remarkable new resource to execute networking strategies and processes for your business, secure deals, and maximize  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David Gowel
ISBN: 9781118134672 1118134672
OCLC Number: 731913184
Description: xxii, 169 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Foreword by Roger Staubach vii Preface ix About the Author xii Introduction xiii Part 1 Why Wake Up? 1 1 Engaging in the Social Capital Trade 3 2 LinkedIn-a-Nutshell 17 3 Social Network Analysis 27 4 A Search That Is Truly Advanced 37 Part 2 From Army Ranger to LinkedIn Jedi 47 5 A Lesson in the Power of the Network 49 6 Well-Connected Connections 59 7 When Recommendations Are Powerful 65 8 Make Better Introductions 77 9 In Like a Ranger, Out Like a Rockefeller 87 Part 3 Getting Technical 97 10 Disrupting Your Privacy and Security 99 11 Projecting the Right Message 111 12 Effective Network Growth 127 13 Business Tools 145 14 The World at Your Fingertips 155 Notes 161 Acknowledgments 163 Index 165
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