Market America Inc. is proud to announce that it now has a LinkedIn profile, at www.linkedin.com/in/MarketAmericaInc
For those who don’t know, LinkedIn is a social networking site for companies and professionals. It’s basically a professional’s version Myspace or Facebook. Below is a chart of quick comparisons between Myspace and LinkedIn profiles.
| Myspace | |
| Friends | Contacts |
| About Me | Education / Work Experience |
| Leave Friends Comments | Leave Contacts Recommendations |
There’re many benefits of having a LinkedIn profile. Below is a quick list of what Guy Kawasaki, one of my favorite venture capitalists, has to say about LinkedIn:
- The average number of LinkedIn connections for people who work at Google is forty-seven.
- The average number for Harvard Business School grads is fifty-eight, so you could skip the MBA, work at Google, and probably get most of the connections you need. Later, you can hire Harvard MBAs to prepare your income taxes.
- People with more than twenty connections are thirty-four times more likely to be approached with a job opportunity than people with less than five.
- All 500 of the Fortune 500 are represented in LinkedIn. In fact, 499 of them are represented by director-level and above employees.
Personally, I love LinkedIn. I keep up with lots of my ex-coworkers, ex-business partners, and industry colleagues through it. While I lived in DC, I’ve had recruiters representing major companies such as Yellow Pages and CarMax approaching me because they’ve found me on LinkedIn trying to fill a search marketing position and liked my job experience.
So to all that reads this post: If you currently have a LinkedIn profile, send us an invite. If you don’t, create one at linkedin.com and send us an invite. We’d love to be connected to you!