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linkedinLinkedIn is an online network of more than 7 million experienced professionals from around the world, representing 130 industries.

When you join, you create a profile that summarizes your professional accomplishments. Your profile helps you find and be found by former colleagues, clients, and partners.
 
You can add more connections by inviting trusted contacts to join LinkedIn and connect to you.

Your network consists of your connections, your connections’ connections, and the people they know, linking you to thousands of qualified professionals.

Through your network you can:

  • Find potential clients, service providers, subject experts, and partners who come recommended
  • Be found for business opportunities
  • Search for great jobs
  • Discover inside connections that can help you land jobs and close deals
  • Post and distribute job listings
  • Find high-quality passive candidates
  • Get introduced to other professionals through the people you know

LinkedIn has executives from every Fortune 500 company and millions of employed professionals open to hearing about new career opportunities. LinkedIn also has more than 50,000 companies worldwide and experts in all major industries.

Using LinkedIn's own  contact system you will be able to manage your contacts efficiently. The service is:

  • Fast and Direct
  • Delivered to the user’s email address
  • Displayed on the user’s LinkedIn homepage
  • Trusted
  • LinkedIn acts acts as a secure communications broker. Your professional profile gives your recipient the confidence to respond 

Web Site:
 
www.linkedin.com
 
Type:
 
Online
 
Membership:
 
Basic Account:

Linkedin offers free personal accounts with robust features, including the ability to:

  • Build and maintain a trusted professional network of unlimited size
  • Find and reconnect with colleagues and classmates
  • Request and provide recommendations
  • Create a professional presence on the web
  • Request up to 5 Introductions at a time
  • Search for and view profiles of other LinkedIn users

There are 4 types of Premium account which include better communication, more powerful search tools, and enhanced access to decision makers and other resources on LinkedIn.

Personal Plus includes:

  • 10 Introductions open at a time
  • OpenLink Network membership
  • Unlimited OpenLink messages
  • Premium Access content
  • One-business-day Customer Service

Business accounts includes:

  • 3 InMails per month, with a seven-day response guarantee
  • Unused InMail credits roll over each month, up to a maximum of nine
  • Expanded Profile views for the top 100 search results outside your network
  • 15 Introductions open at a time
  • Unlimited one-click reference searches
  • OpenLink Network membership
  • Unlimited OpenLink messages
  • Premium Access content
  • One-business-day Customer Service

Business Plus accounts includes:

  • 10 InMails per month, with a seven-day response guarantee
  • Unused InMail credits roll over each month, up to a maximum of 30
  • Expanded profile views for the top 150 search results outside your network
  • 25 Introductions open at a time
  • Unlimited one-click reference searches
  • OpenLink Network membership
  • Unlimited OpenLink messages
  • Premium Access content
  • One-business-day Customer Service

Pro accounts includes:

  • 50 InMails per month with a seven-day response guarantee
  • Unused InMail credits roll over each month, up to a maximum of 150
  • Expanded profile views for the top 200 search results outside your network
  • 40 Introductions open at a time
  • Unlimited one-click reference searches
  • OpenLink Network membership
  • Unlimited OpenLink messages
  • Premium Access content
  • One-business-day Customer Service 

Cost: 
 
Basic:
Free

Premium:
Personal Plus - $60 per year
Business - $19.95 per month or $199.50 per year
Business Plus - $50 per month or $500 per year
Pro - $200 per month or $2,000 per year 

 

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