{"id":528,"date":"2013-06-20T17:41:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T22:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/?p=528"},"modified":"2013-06-20T17:41:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T22:41:03","slug":"cultivate-your-linkedin-network-heres-step-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/cultivate-your-linkedin-network-heres-step-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultivate Your LinkedIn Network, Here&#8217;s Step One."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/linkedin.banner.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-529\" alt=\"linkedin.banner\" src=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/linkedin.banner.jpg\" width=\"905\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/linkedin.banner.jpg 905w, https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/linkedin.banner-300x110.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LinkedIn is the world&#8217;s largest professional network with 225 million members. It&#8217;s a great&#8211;and probably the best&#8211;source to cultivate your professional network. LinkedIn is swimming with potential clients, business partners, subject matter experts, employers, and employees. The question is, are you taking advantage of it?<\/p>\n<p>One of the best ways to begin developing your network and establishing yourself as an industry expert is to participate in targeted Groups. Check out these 4 new Groups that we&#8217;ve created for this sole purpose:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups\/Operations-Professionals-5066570?trk=myg_ugrp_ovr\">Operations Professionals<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups\/Strategy-Consultants-Worldwide-5066543?trk=myg_ugrp_ovr\">Strategy Consultants Worldwide<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups\/Operations-Consulting-Worldwide-5066556?trk=myg_ugrp_ovr\">Operations Consultants Worldwide<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups\/Strategy-Marketing-Sales-Professionals-5066558?trk=myg_ugrp_ovr\">Strategy, Marketing, &amp; Sales Professionals<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This are very young groups, so it&#8217;s a great time to join and make your mark. Would you like to be a moderator? Email David at\u00a0dave@flevy.com\u00a0and we&#8217;ll make it happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LinkedIn is the world&#8217;s largest professional network with 225 million members. It&#8217;s a great&#8211;and probably the best&#8211;source to cultivate your professional network. LinkedIn is swimming with potential clients, business partners, subject matter experts, employers, and employees. The question is, are you taking advantage of it? One of the best ways to begin developing your network&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/cultivate-your-linkedin-network-heres-step-one\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cultivate Your LinkedIn Network, Here&#8217;s Step One.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[134,78,212,213],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flevy-news","tag-consultants","tag-consulting","tag-linkedin","tag-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}