Web Marketing Strategy Update

You might not realise it, but LinkedIn is one of the oldest and largest properties in the world of social networking. Unlike Facebook and similar sites, LinkedIn is unique in that it’s geared towards helping professionals to network virtually.

As as anyone who has used LinkedIn to expand their professional network can testify, it works very well. The fact is it wouldn’t have been around this long — never mind continue to grow — if it didn’t work.

Have you been taking advantage of LinkedIn to make contacts and expand your business? Or is it a site you know relatively little about?

Study our handy infographic below to learn everything you need to understand about the professional social networking site, including what you can do with LinkedIn and how you can use it to your advantage:

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Some takeaways from the infographic:

• There are more than 135 million LinkedIn members from more than 200 countries. (Data as of end 2011)

• The leading countries are USA, India, UK, Canada, and Brazil.

• More and more people are joining LinkedIn, and at an ever increasing rate too, with more than two new people signing up per second!

Self-trained professional networker, Albert Parks also dabbles in infographic design, which plays an important role in creating contacts.