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I am using LinkedIn to maintain with my professional contacts and support them with introductions. Since youre one of the people I suggest, I wanted to ask you to gain access to my community o-n LinkedIn.   Basic membership is free, and it takes less than a second to sign up and join my network. I have received more than 3-5 announcements similar to this, worded almost exactly the same manner. The senders have served surprise... Like me, have you received invitations like these?  I am using LinkedIn to maintain with my professional contacts and help them with introductions. Since you are among the people I suggest, I wanted to invite you to gain access to my network o-n LinkedIn.   Basic membership is free, and it requires less than a second to register and join my network. Ive received more than 35 announcements like this, worded almost exactly the same manner. The senders have acted upset and surprised that I did not jump to benefit from this request. Lets consider the problems in this request from the marketing perspective. * The majority of the invitations I received were from individuals whose names I did not identify. Why would I desire to be a part of their network? The request does not say who they are, who they have access to and how Id reap the benefits of their system. * Whats Linked In, how does it work and what are the advantages of using it? No-one has yet explained this clearly in their invitation. You cannot expect that someone receiving this invitation knows what youre asking them to participate or how it would be advantageous to them. It would be useful to have a passage or two describing how it works and stating a particular effect the person behind the request enjoyed from membership. It may be that people think that since basic membership is free, the normal individual of the request will go ahead and join. But even though it does not charge money, time would be taken by joining. You still need to sell people on going for a free activity, particularly with respect to an activity or organization that could be unfamiliar for them. * No one took some time to head off possible misunderstandings or objections for this membership. As a non-member of Linked-in, Im concerned that joining would open me up to large amount of email and phone calls where Id have no interest and that would spend my time. Again, you cant assume that something free is therefore enticing; you should imagine why some-one may have questions or dismiss the theory and address those questions. * Using a canned invitation thats almost the same as everybody elses doesnt produce a great impression. Even if the text supplied by Linked In were successful, which it is not, youd need to give your personal stamp to it. Apart from being irritated that they are apparently encouraging people to send announcements that make little sense, Ive nothing against Linked In. Navigating To http://www.ynpahy.com/national-organization-recognizes-achievement-of-orange-county-schools-3/ certainly provides lessons you could give to your father. Perhaps its a good business. My position is that its members have to use common sense and fundamental marketing maxims to encourage active, skeptical people to give an opportunity to it..