If you're serious about connecting with someone on LinkedIn, skip the boilerplate invite. Instead, follow these three steps to make connections effectively. We’ve all done this: You sign into ...

or employing bad LinkedIn etiquette, can alienate your contacts (known as “connections”). It can also turn away potential employers interested in hiring you. We caught up with Kirsten Dixson ...

Each direct contact in your network becomes one of your LinkedIn Connections ... as long as you follow the correct etiquette for making contact. Before contacting a user outside your network ...

When you use LinkedIn for business networking, here are good-networking etiquette tips to keep in ... Some people happily connect to anyone and everyone they meet whether there’s a strong ...

But despite the social platform’s growing popularity, confusion about its rules and etiquette ... to connect is inappropriate . . . and tacky”) that went viral. Although most LinkedIn ...

Most LinkedIn etiquette experts put the limit at once ... 3) Request recommendations from the people who know you well. Not all your connections will give you an endorsement, nor should they.

Donna Serdula is the the author of LinkedIn Makeover and hosts a site bearing its name. I phoned her offices in New Jersey to — wait for it — connect. “My belief is that you shouldn’t be ...

While some individuals are willing to accept any request, others are more guarded about who’s allowed in their networks.

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or employing bad LinkedIn etiquette, can alienate your contacts (known as “connections”). It can also turn away potential employers interested in hiring you. We caught up with Kirsten Dixson ...