1.) Finish your profile- if your profile is not at 100%, you are not showing up in as many search results as you might like. You can view your profile from the main LinkedIn screen, and it should hopefully look like this:
2.) Make sure you are joining appropriate LinkedIn groups for your industry- I call this the "one of these things is not like the other" rule. If you are in a great deal of groups that have nothing to do with your industry, you are not gaining the advantage of LinkedIn groups to build your network. One of these things is not like the other:
3.) You can't just send invites and hope that LinkedIn is going to work for you. You need to be posting industry related updates, and post within groups to be seen as an industry expert:
4.) Make sure you don't just bombard people on LinkedIn. LI is just like any other potential sale that you need to make, but look for opportunities to communicate to your network, and to people looking at you!
5.) Last but not least in my top 5, always let people do your work for you. The following is a message posted in a group on LinkedIn regarding Pro-E jobs. Look for easy information out there.
