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12 Ways To Screw Up A Virtual First Impression

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1) Link to inactive social networking accounts: So there’s a prospect, interested enough to check out your Linkedin profile. They click on your Twitter link thinking “Cool, I spend more time there anyway” then they discover your account either has zero tweets or the last time you tweeted was back in late 2009. I’ve seen this with inactive blogs and even websites. Please go back and update or report to the Principals office folks. Inexcusable!

2) Dancing the “Linkedin two step”. This is when you....Read more at

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Val Jelinic
Innovative Technology Professional
Posted on Sept. 6, 2011
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He he he.. an excellent overview of some of the key ways to really leave a long-lasting bad impression. The analogy of a "first-date" couldnt be more apt, I've witnessed a lot of these mistakes 1st hand and, unfortunately, still suffer from "linkedin two step" (point 2) "sales pitch attacks" almost everyday. I often wonder if LinkedIn should create a profile tag called "Me Me Me" for just these kinds of people. Anyway, enough about me, so tell me what do YOU think about me? ;-)

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