OK, so most people will not be in the same situation I am in I admit. It is an intersting story either way. About a year ago, LinkedIn did a REALLY WEIRD thing. They capped the size of one’s LinkedIn network at 30,000. Now, that is a lot I admit. It affected about 10 us us super networkers immediately and it is affecting another 20-30 of us here in 2010.
Now, I have a lot of people in my that I don’t know and THAT IS GOOD. They bring in prospects, new relationships, make my searches much more meaningful. More on the ‘Open Networking” element that makes our phone ring with business from NEW customers in another post.
At 27,900 connections and growing by 20-30 a day, I have to do something and relatively quick. I have to eliminate people of little or no value to me so there is room for people that have greater business value. How does one do that?
- Eliminate people with fake profiles, people that don’t exist, spammers in many cases.
- Eliminate people that cheat the system
- Eliminate people that are not using LinkedIn, inactive users
I have developed some strategies in each of these areas and I will report back how it is working so you can see the thought process of a LinkedIn Rock Star, in this case, THE LinkedIn Rock Star (myself). See My Profile.
Side note…
LinkedIn capped the number of groups you can be a member of as well about 2 years ago. In that case it hit a lot of people REALLY HARD. That cap was 50 for primary groups and 50 for subgroups. This did affect each and every one of us. If there were just 500 groups and you got to choose 50, no problem. Make that 500,000 and you get to choose 50 and you get the idea how DEAD WRIONG they were for doing that. More on this in another post.
