LinkedWorking: Generating Success On The World's Largest Professional Networking Website

by Frank Agin, Lewis Howes

LinkedIn Works ... It actually works incredibly well. For those who know how to harness the power of this Internet phenomenon, it opens the door to amazing opportunities, a world of new contacts and a plethora of potential success.

If you want to take advantage of LinkedIn, there are no secrets, tricks or magic. The key is to simply approach this online experience in the same manner as you network in the real world.

In LinkedWorking, a networking expert and LinkedIn guru join forces to show you how you can …

Position yourself on LinkedIn to capitalize on extraordinary opportunities …

Identify connections in LinkedIn that will generate remarkable additional contacts for you

Undertake certain actions on LinkedIn that creates unparalleled success for you, and …

Gain so much more from your networking experience … all by practicing the same networking habits you use in your everyday life.

LinkedWorking … It will revolutionize how you network online.

Genres: Business, Nonfiction

132 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 2, 2009

Reviews

[Loy Machedo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Loy Machedo’s Book Review – LinkedWorking by Frank Agin & Lewis Howes

Social Media is no more a hype. Today is become a part of our lifestyle, an unavoidable necessity and a fiercely debatable subject of good versus evil. In the whirlwind of this fast-paced confusion, comes a book that tries to make sense of this unpredictable phenomenon. Frank Agin of AmSpirit & Lewis Howes of Sports Networker combine their Experience, Expertise & Enigmatic Success on Linkedin into a step-by-step recipe balancing it out with good old hard work, commitment to a task every few minutes every single day to carefully choosing whom you decide to network with and how you introduce yourself. The concepts are very basic and easy to understand which gives the reader the required encouragement to believe that he can achieve the level of success many Linkedin users have experienced.

The entire book is hardly around 100 pages and can be completed in and around 15 minutes. It is illustrated with real life examples and points of wisdom.

Suggestions if any – well it was way to basic. Honestly, I would have expected a few ‘secrets’ at least.
Having said that, no complaints. But yeah, this book is highly recommend to Linkedin beginners and skeptics who have yet to understand the power of Linkedin.

Overall Rating
7.5 out of 10

Loy Machedo
loymachedo.com

[Joan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Son Jim got me connected to LinkedIn and then decided to loan me books to learn how to use it. I read this one = a piece of information followed by a "success story" from a LinkedIn user on how LinkedIn had helped the writer. I was so impressed with the last article by Shiela Etheridge called "Don't be Afraid to Ask" on how many people she had contacted and how well known she was. I decided to reach her to thank her for the article. Guess what? I couldn't find her site. I needed to know her e-maial address in order to do that. And I don't. I am not sure I learned much, but it was a fairly easy read. Next I will try the more technical stuff.

[Amanda · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was misrepresented to me. I thought that this book would help me learn to use LinkedIn to be able to find a job faster, but this book is more for people who already have an established career and set of colleagues, friends, and acquaintances with which to network. I don't. I am just starting out in life, and am ashamed to say that I do not have a single friend, colleague, or acquaintance. The only people who talk to me are blood relatives (and 90% of them hate me). So this book wasn't really that helpful for me. It might be helpful in the future, but not at the present time.

[Dane Cobain · Rating 4 out of 5]

If a book has a special forward written by Chris Brogan, you know it's going to be pretty good. LinkedWorking is written by two professionals - Lewis Howes started out as a pro athlete, before an injury drove him to start spending time on LinkedIn. Frank Agin, his co-author, is a networking expert and an author.

If you want to study in-person networking, go elsewhere - while LinkedWorking will help, its true strength is its ability to strengthen your existing network using LinkedIn.

[R.S. Kellogg · Rating 2 out of 5]

The networking advice in this book is thought-provoking and makes sense. The stories are interesting. But in the copy I read, as of late 2011 the cited supplementary websites were not relevant (other than LinkedIn itself).

[Russ · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the perfect, short book for increasing your success on Linkedin. It suits novices, the socially awkward (like myself) and even expert networkers. There are great hints and instructions to do it yourself. At 93 pages, there is no fluff. Buy it, use it and become more successful

[Peter O'Brien · Rating 4 out of 5]

Virtual networking 101.