Traction Marketing Group

What is LinkedIn?
LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003 mainly used for professional networking. As of December 2007, its site traffic was 3.2 million visitors per month, growing at an astonishing annual growth rate of about 485%. As of March 2008, it had more than 20 million registered users, spanning 150 industries.

Why should you be on LinkedIn?
The purpose of the site is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business. The people in the list are called Connections. Users can invite anyone (whether a site user or not) to become a connection.

This list of connections can then be used in a number of ways:

• A contact network is built up consisting of their direct connections, the connections of each of their connections (termed second degree connections) and also the connections of second degree connections (termed third degree connections). This can be used to gain an introduction to someone you wish to know through a mutual, trusted contact.
• It can then be used to find jobs, people and business opportunities recommended by someone in one's contact network.
• Employers can list jobs and search for potential candidates.
• Job seekers can review the profile of hiring managers and discover which of their existing contacts can introduce them.

We encourage all our readers to 'get to know one another' by starting their FREE account and using us as a central hub to connect and network.  You can find some of our profiles with the following links.  Tyler Smith - Randy Nichols - Jill Farrand - Myka Gilliam - Tanner Tate