Posts Tagged ‘LinkedIn’

LinkedIn has announced that revenue has more than doubled in the last quarter and they’ve increased their 2012 revenues, and the stock has jumped accordingly.  The social network reported $167.7 million in revenue for the fourth quarter, beating the average analyst estimate of $159.8 million in the quarter.  The good news also comes at a [...]

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

Career networking sites like LinkedIn were supposed to replace business cards, but exchanging email addresses with a smartphone just isn’t as smooth as handing over the real thing. Last year LinkedIn acquired a mobile business card transcription service called CardMunch to bridge the gap between an in-person meeting and an online connection. Now the network [...]

It’s no wonder that people turn to Twitter for tech support. In the heat of a frustrating moment, it is much easier to fire off a quick question on Twitter than to wait on hold for an operator. But how effective is the microblogging site as a customer service tool? Here’s how Spotify, LinkedIn, Pinterest [...]

I’ve been waiting to see a good service that ranked LinkedIn pages by follower count, and the folks over at ZoomSphere have done the groundwork to get such a service up and running.  They’ve got a database ranking the top LinkedIn pages on the social network by follower count, and you might be surprised at [...]

It’s a surprise to some, but email marketing is still one of the most powerful forms.  While social media is important to get the word out, there is still nothing that generates click through than a well timed email to a person’s inbox.  That said, a recent study shows that while social and email battle [...]

The recent 2012 Consumer Electronics Report announced the results of a user survey last month, and found some interesting statistics about LinkedIn users.  Just about half (49%) have household incomes over $100,000, and LinkedIn users are more likely than the general population to own tablets and smartphones.  Read on for more.

Let’s say you’re a happily employee who finds out about this new must-have professional social network called LinkedIn. Maybe you want to sign up, but if you do, you’d better be careful not to click the box that says you’re interested in “career opportunities” — it may be enough to get you in legal trouble. [...]

I remember when I first heard the buzz about this “LinkedIn” social network.  I imagined some upstart entertainment social network that would help me keep ‘up to date with all the in stuff going on in my community’.  As the buzz continued to grow and the term started getting thrown around more and more, I [...]

Put 135 million professionals into one country-sized room and give each of them a mic, then tally up the number of times they use words like creative and problem solving.  You can’t, but LinkedIn can, and did.  Following up on last year’s analysis of overused buzzwords, LinkedIn has published their latest list of the 10 [...]

It doesn’t matter that we’re coming up on the end of Q4. There’s A LOT happening in the social media IPO market right now! Check out these 10 companies: