I received the following question today:
There is a group on LinkedIn that I would like to “take over” It is an Alumni group in San Diego. I am the current President and we want to use to promote alumni events. The person who set it up has not posted in over a year and they probably won’t care.
Is there a way I can find out who set it up or who is the admin and contact them?
Can they add me as an admin like you can on FB?
Or, can they just give me ownership of the group so I can post, grow it, etc?

The answer to all three questions is YES, YES & YES.
This video shows you how to do it.

I recently invited a large number of offline connections to connect with me on LinkedIn. Since I wanted to personalize the invitation, I chose to send the message from my contact manager as opposed to LinkedIn. Using this method allowed me to send multiple invitations at once and using the mail merge feature, personalize each one with the person’s name.

In order to make it easier for people to connect with me, I created a link that took them directly to my invite page – click here to see it in action.

In the video below I show you exactly how to create your own link so that you can direct people to invite you. If you find this video to be of help please pass it on and leave a comment below. Thank you.

This is the final question from a recent interview on MO.com.

In addition to your consulting firm you also have a product called ‘QuoteActions’ consisting of motivational quotes and actions sent to businesses each day. How do you continually find inspiration and why do you feel it’s important to pass it on?

I’ve been a quote collector for years. I find that quotes pack a lot of punch. However the inspiration comes from doing not thinking. So that’s where I find my inspiration – from the people doing incredible things. I also get a lot of inspiration from people doing “impossible” things. I do believe that we all need to be inspired on a regular basis. And when you are the catalyst of that inspiration, you build a lot of Visibility and Credibility.

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This is the second to last question I was asked during a recent interview with MO.com.

On your website you ask ‘Are you ready to triple the number of referrals you give and receive?’ Tripling the number of referrals is an impressive promise, what strategies to you employ to fulfill it?

It is all about using the VCP process (this is a registered service mark of the Referral Institute.) This process stands for the following : Visibility, Credibility and Profitability. Simply stated, people need to know of you first (V) then they need to trust that you are both competent and reputable (C) and then only then will then do business directly or indirectly (refer) with you. So I teach strategies to help people increase their Visibility and Credibility on LinkedIn. Plus I also teach them how to integrate LinkedIn with offline face-to-face networking.

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I’m really curious as to what people do with this. Thanks for voting.

This is the fourth question I was asked in a recent interview with MO.com

You’ve recently started to do presentations in Dubai. How have you managed to gain a foothold in the Middle Eastern market? Have you had to change or alter your message at all or does the core remain the same no matter the culture or type of business you run?

LinkedIn is responsible for me doing this! I am a member of a worldwide networking organization called BNI and I was contacted by one of the directors from Dubai who wanted to recommend me to one of his members for a Social Media conference they were having in Dubai last year. I said, “sure” thinking that it would never amount to anything. Imagine my surprise when I received a call from the organizer saying that they had looked at my LinkedIn profile and were so impressed that they hired me. I since have been back another time and will do so again next February.

I have had to alter very little since the core content remains the same. The only thing I change a bit are my metaphors and stories to better reflect the local culture.

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This is the third question I was asked during a recent interview with Mo.com.

What ever made you decide to start your own company during a recession?

Necessity. I am a partner in another business offering personal growth seminars and trainings. The downturn in the economy had a huge impact on our company. As a result, the company couldn’t afford both my partner and I to draw salaries from the company. So I starting my own company was pretty much my only choice – since being an employee is something that I no longer view as an option because it is too restrictive for my personality. I’m an entrepreneur at heart. And as an Entrepreneur, you start a business at any time not when the time is right.

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This is the second question I was asked during a recent interview for MO.com

You only started your consulting firm earlier this year. How have you managed to attract clients and build a base so quickly?

Mostly by getting out in the community and doing presentations where I educate people about the opportunities available for them on LinkedIn. In addition, I share a lot of free and very useful information that has many people subscribing to my funnel. I can then convert a percentage of them to paying customers. Lastly, is that I have accumulated a significant amount of the two currencies I mentioned: Credibility and Goodwill. If you see my LinkedIn profile you will note that there are over 175 recommendations. This makes it much easier for them to trust that I have value for them.

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As you have probably found out by now, LinkedIn is not the most user-friendly site. You can certainly waste a lot of time trying to learn how to navigate the site. In this video I show you how to contact LinkedIn’s customer service. By the way, if you are on the basic (free) account, sometimes it takes up to 72 hours for them to respond.

I received the following question today:

“Is there any way to do an advanced search while you are looking at a connection’s connections. I am trying to target my connection’s connections who are CEO’s, Partners, Owners, etc. A lot of my connections have 500+ connections, so I’m just trying to expedite the process and don’t know if that is even possible?”