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When I checked my email this morning, somebody who I know invited me to answer a question she had posted at LinkedIn.\u00a0She was asking for suggestions on how to promote something.<\/p>\nWhen I checked my email this morning, somebody who I know invited me to answer a question she had posted at LinkedIn.\u00a0She was asking for suggestions on how to promote something.<\/p>\n
Just as I started to answer it, I\u00a0noticed that she was asking for a private answer, not a public one.\u00a0I stopped in mid-sentence, left the site and started doing something else.<\/p>\n
Here’s why:<\/p>\n
Social networking can eat up hours of time, and I must must make the best use of every minute I spend making connections, answering questions, offering helpful tips and building relationships.\u00a0I answer questions on LinkedIn for two reasons:<\/p>\n
First, it promotes my expertise.<\/p>\n
Second, I’m trying to accumulate\u00a0as many “best answer” designations as possible.\u00a0During the teleseminar I hosted with Scott Allen last year on\u00a0How to Use LinkedIn to Promote Anything–Ethically & Powerfully<\/a>, Scott mentioned that this is one of the most powerful ways to enhance my expertise.<\/p>\n Had I spent 10\u00a0minutes answering her question this morning, nobody else would have been able to read it. So why bother? She already knows I’m a publicity expert and,\u00a0I reasoned, my 10 minutes wouldn’t have gotten me anywhere.<\/p>\n I’d much rather spend that time\u00a0responding to my Twitter followers,\u00a0retweeting, or responding to LinkedIn questions that ask for public answers everyone can see.<\/p>\n Am I being stingy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I checked my email this morning, somebody who I know invited me to answer a question she had posted at LinkedIn.\u00a0She was asking for suggestions on how to promote something. Just as I started to answer it, I\u00a0noticed that she was asking for a private answer, not a public one.\u00a0I stopped in mid-sentence, left\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":21,"wds_primary_category":613,"footnotes":""},"categories":[613],"tags":[637],"class_list":{"0":"post-3559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linkedin","7":"tag-social-media-productivity","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42107,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions\/42107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}