Don’t Spam Your LinkedIn Connections

Great posts and comments! I only pitched my services to companies that I truly feel need my services. One company's Facebook page and Twitter messages were so bad that I had to write to the Marketing Chief. There is nothing wrong with helping companies that are lost on social media. They may thank you later for it. I don't offer my clients any services that they don't want or need. If you see someone doing something wrong, wouldn't you want to help? After all, isn't that what LinkedIn is for? To help each other with our businesses. You can say that it all about the relationship but really we build relationship to grow our businesses. Why pretend otherwise?

I agree, don't spam your connections but see how you can help them.

Great post, thanks!! A lot of people are still getting their heads around social networking and its business possibilities, and a lot of people still haven't realised there's a difference between outbound marketing and inbound marketing. It takes a lot more time to build relationships online and it's a lot easier to just blast out sales messages. Unfortunately, it's getting easier every day to do the latter. It may take a couple of years for people to catch on that actually building relationships online is worth investing time in.

Hello Jay, I too dislike the spammers on LinkedIn. Apart from the distraction of receiving messages about reading someone's blog about renewable climate Wall St eurozoning, these bedroom-based CEOs of unheard-of corporations seem to offer one hell of a lot of silly and unwanted advice. I feel a great release of tension when I press that disconnect button on these time wasters. Just that simple click of a mouse and I know that my screen will never be filled with unwanted pixels from a two-bit wanabee from somewhere else.

This made me smile wryly - likewise I and many people I know are getting more of these annoying spam messages. I don't think it's just from connections though, it's from premium users also abusing their premium rights and it's something LinkedIn needs to clamp down on sharpish before people fall out of love (if that's possible on LinkedIn - powerful it is, exciting it is not) with it. It would be great to know when you flag this rubbish that LinkedIn actually do something.... I'm with Rand also, hating the amount of abuse within discussion of random blog posts and automated drivel/self-promotion masquerading as discussions from people outside of who the group is intended for - the problem I find is some moderators, as we all get more and more busy and more stretched online, don't have as much time to moderate the groups effectively. I'm clamping down in the group I contribute to most and flagging merrily away, I've had enough! Great post, as always, loving your style :-)

...and I hate spam in discussion groups as well. So much so I began my own group. It's just me and one other guy. And he is a bricklayer in Peru who doesn't speak English. *total bliss*

Oh, I hear you loud and clear. I hate LinkedIn SPAM. :( Maybe I'll stop unfriending/blocking people that SPAM me in LinkedIn.