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Are you satisfied with LinkedIn services? [poll]

Are you satisfied with LinkedIn services? Please explain the why? Thanks

Are you satisfied with LinkedIn services ?
  1. Yes
  2. No
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    The price and ROI of what you get for paid membership is "off". So far I am not getting $600/year worth of value from a paid account and I suggest that their current pricing does not scale with startups/smallbiz.

    On the advertising side, I've looked at taking out paid ads on the site. It appears expensive as compared to Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Spotify ads. It also appears to be far more complicated than other ad platforms. I should not have to do a bunch of reading and understand every aspect of the ad platform to take a simple, small business ad.

    And finally, on Twitter I can setup a saved search/filter for "data posts in my area". LinkedIn hashtag and group features are severely lacking and do not allow filtering by location to make for a hyper-local network.

    Long story short, I'm on LinkedIn because my [potential] customers are but I severely dislike it.

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      And actually, I've posted in Facbook groups and on here that it seems to me there is a hole & market-need for "Indie Hackers for small retail". Why is there not something where local small business can go, share their challenges and share knowledge/solutions?

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        If you are to build it, what features would it have?

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          I've seen a number of attempts at replacing LinkedIn so I think the #1 thing is it needs a decent sized user base. The challenge of all social networks is that you need numbers to make it work.

          Second, I think the "online resume" idea is outdated and useless. If you look at a persons profile on LinkedIn in there is a great deal of space devoted to employment history, education, etc. There's an extremely small little box for "activity" so that highlights what LinkedIn thinks is important. I would say how a person comments and helps in the online community us far more insightful than where they went to school 20yr ago.

          I could go on and on but I think that's enough for an MVP if you did do it.

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            Actually, I just had a thought.

            You could leverage existing tools to simply make a "professional profile". Use your own DB or Linkedin for work/school history, Git for code history, Twitter for social history. And then show "questions asked on Quora" and "questions answered on Quora" to provide insight into what the person is talking about and their engagement style.

            That would at least, hopefully, begin to replace LinkedIn as the professional profile. Once that portion is upset/replaced then it becomes easier to build the "online professional community" and "small business knowledge network" that I think is really missing.

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    Depends what a person uses it for:

    • I use it for looking for connections I have, so when I travel somewhere I give them a message and meet up with them.
    • I also look maybe to hire some people through there and through other channels
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