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Playing with LinkedIn's Answers feature - A brief analysis, plus community advice on starting consulting (part 2/2)

Sat, 2007/02/03 - 06:55 — matt

Last week I wrote about my initial foray into LinkedIn's new Answers feature, and shared some of mine. Below I've included the answers I got to my (so far only) question How did you get clients when you started your consulting practice? Before that, let's briefly consider Answers' strengths and weaknesses.

Strengths?

  • Opportunity to share knowledge and help others,
  • Exposure to possible peers (increase connections) and clients,
  • Increased repute

Weaknesses?

  • Many answerers are writing pretty blatantly to self-promote,
  • Ditto for questioners,

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Playing with LinkedIn's Answers feature - Time, cutting costs, and the meaning of life (part 1/2)

Sun, 2007/01/28 - 04:36 — matt

I've been trying out LinkedIn's new Answers feature in the two obvious ways (asking and answering) to see if a) I can help people, b) establish myself as an authority, and c) open myself up to networking and potential clients. So far I've asked one question (How did you get clients when you started your consulting practice?) and answered a dozen or so of the deepest or most interesting ones.

In this post I'd like to share some of my answers (more next week). None were voted "best answer," but hey - maybe folks found them helpful.

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