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	<title>Comments on: Networking simplified and LinkedIn Answers</title>
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		<title>By: bruce colthart</title>
		<link>http://blog.colthart.com/2008/06/networking-simplified-and-linkedin-answers/comment-page-1/#comment-88</link>
		<dc:creator>bruce colthart</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Vesela:

Thanks for reading and commenting.

That&#039;s a fair request! Both questions had to do with the operations and the future of my design business. The first one asked the community of designers about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linkedin.com/answers/marketing-sales/graphic-design/MAR_GRD/250610-714524?&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;how they differentiated themselves &lt;/a&gt;, beyond serving a niche market; the second question had to do with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linkedin.com/answers/startups-small-businesses/business-plans/STR_BPL/250537-714524?&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;basics of do-it-yourself market research &lt;/a&gt; in the wake of me reading Michael Gerber&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/E-Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses-About/dp/0887307280&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;E-Myth Revisited&lt;/a&gt;. The questions are officially closed [to continued answers] – I believe they close after two weeks – but the raft of responses are still there. I need to review them alll again as well as throw out new questions more regularly. I really dig the community&#039;s thoughts and help.

Have you posted or answered any LinkedIn questions? If so, what&#039;s been your experience with this service? Do you have any questioning or annswering tips? And how might you improve the service if you could?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Vesela:</p>
<p>Thanks for reading and commenting.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s a fair request! Both questions had to do with the operations and the future of my design business. The first one asked the community of designers about <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/answers/marketing-sales/graphic-design/MAR_GRD/250610-714524?" rel="nofollow">how they differentiated themselves </a>, beyond serving a niche market; the second question had to do with the <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/answers/startups-small-businesses/business-plans/STR_BPL/250537-714524?" rel="nofollow">basics of do-it-yourself market research </a> in the wake of me reading Michael Gerber&#8217;s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/E-Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses-About/dp/0887307280" rel="nofollow">E-Myth Revisited</a>. The questions are officially closed [to continued answers] – I believe they close after two weeks – but the raft of responses are still there. I need to review them alll again as well as throw out new questions more regularly. I really dig the community&#8217;s thoughts and help.</p>
<p>Have you posted or answered any LinkedIn questions? If so, what&#8217;s been your experience with this service? Do you have any questioning or annswering tips? And how might you improve the service if you could?</p>
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		<title>By: Vesela Apostolova</title>
		<link>http://blog.colthart.com/2008/06/networking-simplified-and-linkedin-answers/comment-page-1/#comment-87</link>
		<dc:creator>Vesela Apostolova</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And may I ask what were the two LinkedIn questions?  :)...a link to the discussion will work as well..thanks!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And may I ask what were the two LinkedIn questions?  <img src='http://blog.colthart.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> &#8230;a link to the discussion will work as well..thanks!</p>
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		<title>By: bruce colthart</title>
		<link>http://blog.colthart.com/2008/06/networking-simplified-and-linkedin-answers/comment-page-1/#comment-71</link>
		<dc:creator>bruce colthart</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Being fairly anonymous in the community prevents me from properly addressing your question. I think 29 answers is a fairly good response, especially so early in my questioning career.

I think it&#039;s all in the quality of the question.

And yes, I can ill-afford to do this every day.

Time to get back to a dull aspect of my work. This has been satisfactorily distracting...thanks!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Being fairly anonymous in the community prevents me from properly addressing your question. I think 29 answers is a fairly good response, especially so early in my questioning career.</p>
<p>I think it&#8217;s all in the quality of the question.</p>
<p>And yes, I can ill-afford to do this every day.</p>
<p>Time to get back to a dull aspect of my work. This has been satisfactorily distracting&#8230;thanks!</p>
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		<title>By: Judy Dunn</title>
		<link>http://blog.colthart.com/2008/06/networking-simplified-and-linkedin-answers/comment-page-1/#comment-69</link>
		<dc:creator>Judy Dunn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Haven&#039;t done this yet, Bruce. How many hours again are there in a day?  : )

What a great idea, using answers to jump start a new blog post. Hadn&#039;t thought of that. 

Do you find in LinkedIn Answers that the better known you are in the community, the more responses you get to your questions? I sure found that to be the case in my early days on biznik.

Judy Dunns last blog post..&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MarketingYourSmallBizBlog/~3/315580692/hard-hat-blues.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hard Hat Blues: Websites &#039;Under Construction&#039;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Haven&#8217;t done this yet, Bruce. How many hours again are there in a day?  : )</p>
<p>What a great idea, using answers to jump start a new blog post. Hadn&#8217;t thought of that. </p>
<p>Do you find in LinkedIn Answers that the better known you are in the community, the more responses you get to your questions? I sure found that to be the case in my early days on biznik.</p>
<p>Judy Dunns last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MarketingYourSmallBizBlog/~3/315580692/hard-hat-blues.html" rel="nofollow">Hard Hat Blues: Websites &#8216;Under Construction&#8217;</a></p>
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