How To Reduce The Number Of Annoying Sales Messages You Get On LinkedIn – Forbes

Photo credit getty LinkedIn is a powerful tool for building your personal brand, delivering a powerful digital first impression and building fruitful relationships. It has also become a breeding ground for unscrupulous and annoying sales people who have come to consider the almost billion LinkedIn members as a fully stocked pond of fish, ready to be reeled in. For people who seek to use LinkedIn for authentic networking, The Exploiters have cast a sleazy shadow over the entire platform with their unwanted and often dishonest sales tactics. Many members respond to this by becoming very closed networkers—allowing in only those people they know well. But that will work against you. It’s often valuable to connect with people you don’t know. A lot has been written about the power of weak ties and the value of a truly diverse network, so being a little promiscuous on LinkedIn can be valuable to your career. The challenge is that it opens you up to business developers who are eager to catch you in their net. To return LinkedIn to the professional e-networking platform that you know and love, there are settings you can change and behaviors you can adopt that will minimize the…
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