I didn\'t know exactly what to expect when I began my Linked In Journey, but here are the Top 10 secrets I\'ve gained!

2.  Relationships: I have been blown away by the
quality of professional individuals who have made
Linked In their professional networking home. The
high quality, very personable, and responsive
people I have had the opportunity to get to know
on Linked In, has been off the charts. Both
employed and unemployed individuals who are
seeking to improve their employment status. I am
a highly relational person and always have been,
and to find all these new relationships has totally
enriched my personal and professional life.

3.  Recommendations: I have received
recommendations like you never get to hear while
you’re still living. In your eulogy, that is where most of
the comments about your life, sacrifices, service and
friendships surface. I had no idea people felt about
me the way they have communicated in my
recommendations. To say they have been a huge
source of encouragement and inspiration would be an
understatement of immense proportions. The journey
down Linked In Parkway has been worth the price of
the ticket if for no other reason than recommendations
alone.

4.  Research: Once the social and professional
networking journey began, I can’t ever see it coming to
an end. People will always need employment, and
companies will always need quality people. Linked In
offers one of the most remarkable tools anywhere, in
that they provide a search engine with over 40 million
people in the data base, from all corners of the
world, every race, religion, and industry group.
Everyone is seeking to improve the quality of their life
and work by being a part of something unique. You
literally can find the proverbial needle in the hay stack
with the research capabilities on Linked In. WOW!

5.  Resumes: Every profile is a resume or a picture of
your professional life over the past ten to twenty
years. The more you put into building your profile, the
more remarkable results you will receive from it. You
may not be in the job market today, but tomorrow may
be a different story. You may want consulting
opportunities, reference checks, or information in a
given industry or country. Your profile (digital resume)
it the ticket to send you all around the world. It is as
accurate as the individuals are who are filling out their
professional information.

6.  Recruiting: I had no idea how many recruiters
were present in one networking site as there are
on Linked In. Well in excess of 500,000 recruiters
are listed and working on Linked In. If you do
need an opportunity, the place above every other
place to get noticed is Linked In. Recruiters from
every corporate environment imaginable and from
all over the globe are found on Linked In.

7.  Resources: There are professionals that do
everything under the sun, and have all the
answers to the questions you thought you would
have to ask God one day. I say that because
anything you need or could possibly think of can
be found in the resources of 135,000,000
professional individuals. Most are willing to assist
you in your quest for information or desire for
inspiration. You truly have the world at your
fingertips if you desire it.

8.  Results: If results are important to you or your
company, then Linked In is the hub for results.
Need people? They’re here! Need advice? It’s
here! Need jobs? They’re here! Need
information? Need data? Need Money? Need
relationships? They’re all here! Within a level or
two of you, you will find someone who knows
someone who can verify, produce, or gain the
results you need in any given field of expertise.
Results are very close by on Linked In.

9.  Rewards: You are rewarded for your attention to
detail with your profile, recommendations,
connections, and relationships. If you are seeking the
rewards before serving other’s needs, you will find that
will not get you very far on Linked In. Putting the
needs of others ahead of your own needs, will result in
tremendous rewards being offered to you. People go
out of their way to help people, who help people. The
rewards of Linked In are almost immeasurable in
terms of relationships, opportunities of service, and
yes even professional opportunities. It’s the principal
of give and receive. If you give you will receive!

10.  Referrals: Nothing is more satisfying than having
a colleague, friend or even a competitor refer new
business to you. Referrals are the ultimate
compliment any of us can receive from someone
else. Referrals are abundant on Linked In, if you
take your work and relationships seriously, and
are diligent about performing your service at the
highest possible standards of excellence. Linked
In is the referral factory for anyone desiring to
expand their company presence.

11.  Remuneration: Everyone desires to be paid a
fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work. On Linked In
you can utilize the group’s discussion boards to
verify a fair wage levels, ideas, frustrations, idea
exchanges, polling questions, and a myriad of
other usages. Nothing is quite as satisfying as
gaining a new client, job, or consulting gig
resulting from Linked In. The remuneration can be
staggering if you know the secrets and intricacies
of the new social and professional media available
to everyone today