90% Linkedin users think Linkedin is an useful social networking site and I am definitely one of them. A survey done by lab42.com (infographic below), 90% of the respondents said Linkedin is useful.

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Source: 90% Linkedin Users Think Linkedin is Useful

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If your business is B2B, Linkedin is your best choice for social network. It has higher real profiles compared to Facebook. It  brings business value to Linkedin users. Its members are more wealthier than Facebook and Twitter.

The relationship that I built through Linkedin groups is much genuine compared to Facebook and Twitter. The most important thing is Linkedin has the less spammers. Study the infographic below to get to know more about Linkedin.

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We know that there are a lot people talk about how to increase fans for your Facebook pages and how to increase followers on Twitter. A lot of software or third party applications are created in order to try to increase the numbers of fans and followers. But there are few people talk about how to increase connections for your Linkedin profile and Linkedin groups. Why?

This is because you need to build relationship, but not the numbers, especially business relationship on Linkedin. Focus on number doesn't help you and your businesses.

From my point of view, the relationship between members are much closer compared to Facebook and Twitter (this is especially true for B2B businesses). I get most my business deals on Linkedin compared to Facebook and Twitter.

After I joined other people's groups and started my own groups, I started engaging group members and position myself as an expert. I use comments to trigger them to browse my profile and my websites. If they like me, most probably they will give me business deals.  :)

Below is my group - Search Engine and Internet Marketing Malaysia. There are few big groups that I have joined on Linkedin, you can browse my profile.

Again, it is about human relationship. There is no difference between offline relationship and online relationship. We just bring the whole offline relationship to online.We need to use the same technique to build your offline relationship for your online relationship.

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On 27th May 2011, I blogged "How to Building Targeted Markets on Non-targeted Social Networking Sites". In this post, I am going to share with you how to build genuine relationship on Linkedin so that you can build your targeted markets.

Since percentage of real profile on Linkedin is very high, you don't have to worry about percentage of real and fake profiles, but how to engage the right people is the key. You can't just simply add anyone without browsing their profiles and even without understanding them. Relationship starts with communication. We need to communicate in order to build genuine relationship. So, the tips I share with you today is building relationship even before you adding them to your networks.

There are 3 ways I usually use to build genuine relationship on Linkedin.

Linkedin is the most popular social netowrking sites for professionals In the previous post, we explained why you can't miss Facebook as a target market. In this blog post, we will tell you why you can't miss Linkedin as an another target market, especially when your businesses are B2B.

First of all, Linkedin has 100,000,000 members all around the world with 44,000,000 from US and 56,000,000 from other places.

Second, Linkedin audience profiles have higher house hold income compared to Wall Street Journal, Forbes and Business Week.

Third, Linkedin audience has higher educational level compared to the other three websites.

Fourth, compared to other websites, Linkedin has more Senior-Level Management. With 555k in Executive Vice President (EVP), Senior Vice President (SVP) and Vice President (VP). And 2.7 million for Middle Management or above.

And, this is very important when Linkedin has 3.5 million users are able to make decision in business purchasing.

This is another very important figure we should know. Active users are very important for social networking sites. We need active users to talk, to communicate and to do business with. Linkedin has 7.6 million users online daily.

Last but not least, Linkedin has 3.7 million users access Linkedin from work. A lot of companies block Facebook but not Linkedin.

Honestly speaking, between Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin, Linkedin brings me the most businesses. :)