Commentaires sur : LinkedIn elitism

By: Naina Redhu

Naina Redhu — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:54:45 +0000

Hey Robin, Even with the warning at the bottom of your LinkedIn profile, I’m sure you must still be receiving many irrelevant enquiries! That’s the nature of online networking I suppose - impersonal - if you metup with some of your contacts and told them verbally that you did not like receiving calls that waste your time, you’d probably have a higher success ratio. Our e-mail inboxes are like voice mail - anyone can leave a message. I think the inboxes should be like out personal mobile phones - atleast we can decide whose call to take and who to classify as a time-waster!

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:45:40 +0000

Hi Scott,

Thank you for this precisions about your own point of view.
It helped me make the distinction between your own and the one of Mr Allen.

Please keep us informed through your book and through your site about the best ways to use the net to enhance our business abilities.

Robin

By: Scott Allen

Scott Allen — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 16:38:18 +0000

Well, I guess I should have clarified in that story that I don’t agree with his strategy either. To say he wouldn’t even talk to you if you’re not on there is perhaps a bit excessive. I know some very smart, well-connected people who have opted out of it for any number of reasons.

But I could maybe see saying, “If you want me to invest, you need to join LinkedIn, because it’s an essential tool that will allow me, your other investors and advisors, and other people in our portfolio to help you more effectively.”

The point of me telling that story, though, is that if you’re an aspiring entrepreneur looking for investors, partners, customers and employees, that’s not the time to decide, “Well, I’m well connected already - I don’t need a tool like LinkedIn.” That’s perhaps not “suicide”, but certainly self-defeating.