You appeared in 4 searches this week
From: [email protected]
Subject: You appeared in 4 searches this week
I've worked in sales for cough years now and there are lots of things that salespeople say, mostly to their line managers.
I just missed out!
It's up for renewal next year.
It's all done in-house.
There's only two people there!
So what set this all off then Pete?
I have a LinkedIn account, if truth be told I don't use it that much, I can't fathom out what it is trying to be. Is it a kind of advertising yourself site for potential employers? Is it a networking site whereby people can sell to one another? Or is it a sort of Social Network site where business professionals can support each other? I get regular emails from them, mostly trying to prize money from my tightly clenched wallet for such things as Sales Navigator and Premium Service all of which I have no need of. This morning I had yet another email from them telling me I had appeared in four searches this week, only four? Normally I just discard these irrelevant messages but today I started to wonder what the actual value of these notifications is? I mean, so four people looked at my profile, are they going to offer me a job? Am I supposed to look at their profiles so that they, in turn, learn that after looking at mine I looked at there's? (Shades of I'll show you mine if you show me yours) just what is the point of these emails other than to say that people are running searches on the site and you for better or worse was trawled into the sweep.The point I'm trying to make is, just like the excuses above, there's no tangible value to them, it's not as if the email says "The CEO of Red Hat is looking for specific people and your skills and abilities matched his search criteria." Now I will say dear reader, the email does slip in a caveat of "If you upgrade your subscription we'll reveal the two people whose names we've held back." but I hardly see that as a reason to upgrade. So what I'm saying is these emails are pointless, they tell me nothing and have very little [sales] benefit to LinkedIN but I bet one of their sales coordinators produces reams of search results data at the monthly sales meeting to justify their position?
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