Linkedinformed Podcast. The Linkedin Show

Welcome to episode 139, this week I’m mainly exploring a subject which many people find a real challenge - how to promote you or your products/services without appearing cheesy or being too pushy! But first…. Interesting Stuff I Saw This Week The three articles I refer to are shown below; Microsoft set to win EU approval for LinkedIn buy LinkedIn files suit to stop bots from data scraping its site I also have a further update on the article about LinkedIn being banned in Russia I covered in last weeks show. It seems LinkedIn have been somewhat arrogant in their handling of this issue which could have been sorted out before going to court (according to a contact I have in Russia). The Art of Social Selling A good rule of thumb when selling or promoting something on LinkedIn is to take your lead from off-line behavioural norms. You wouldn’t walk into a networking event and think “right, how am I going to sell sell sell to this lot”! In reality you would ‘work the room’ talking to people, asking questions, bui