LinkedIn Q & A [Part 5 of 7]: How To Get High Quality Recommedations On LinkedIn
February 26, 2010 Networking, Social Media TrackBack URL
Question: How do you get genuine, personalised recommendations on LinkedIn?
Answer: Here are 4 tips to follow:
1. Make personal requests for a recommendation via phone or face to face before sending the LinkedIn request for recommendation
2. Request results and benefits driven recommendations
3. Ask people to include comments on what they feel makes you different or unique
4. Get into the habit of giving your contacts personalised recommendations (without wanting anything back)
Have you any more tips or suggestions…? Feel free to add them in the comments box below.
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