Linked In Question

by Intermission

Posted: 13 years ago 6 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

I have a profile on LinkedIn I set up a few years ago and I entered my website as one I had recently built at that time. The next thing I know I have all kinds of people 'connecting' or signing up as EMPLOYEES of 'mywebsite.com'!!!

I contacted linkedIn twice through support and they offered ZERO help or assistance on this. They pretty much said there was nothing I could do about it except ask these people to not do that! I only have a free account with LinkedIn and I haven't been able to contact any of these people directly to tell them change their profile or connection (or whatever it is) and remove themselves as employees.

Since then I have removed that website and all mention of it from my profile but those people still say that they are employees of my site! And I have REFUSED to have anything to do with them and LinkedIn for the last few years since. But I really don't want that to be the reason I can't utilize this social medium for my business.

Now I want to try to use LinkedIn to connect with people in the industry that website is based in and do some more marketing, but how should I deal with these 'employees' I can't even fire!?

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JohnMcCabe 13 years ago

Add content to your profile explaining that 'mywebsite.com' has no employees, and that anyone claiming to be an employee is lying.

Odds are, the people you are seeing are jobseekers padding their resumes and adding 'proof' of their claim to work for mywebsite.com.

Adding a statement like this should get most of them unlinked pretty quickly...
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- Dan Allard 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe
  
  Add content to your profile explaining that 'mywebsite.com' has no employees, and that anyone claiming to be an employee is lying.
  
  I agree with John. Not much else you can do. And don't worry about it too much, don't let other users ruin your experience with LinkedIn. I don't think it will affect you in any negative way.
  
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angmoore 13 years ago

Give them a bad reference
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ArranWood 13 years ago

I personally love LinkedIn, If you need a connection search for ArranWood I am always happy to make new connections and I am happy to help fellow LinkedIn members by clicking links, reviewing their sites and much more.

As regards your issue where members are saying that they worked for your company, to easily rid yourself of them find what groups they are in and join the group and post something as a discussion such as "Joe Bloggs has said he worked for us here at mysite.com, this is of course not true, How do you deal with scammers like this?".

That being posted in the groups that Joe is a member of will quickly reveal him to be a scammer and will have many of his connections leave him really quickly. By turning your snipe into a discussion it will highlight far quicker than LinkedIn staff will ever do.

Hope that helps?
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Intermission 13 years ago

@JohnMcCabe, I guess that is what I have to do. I will have to make it very clear I am a sole owner and operator with NO employees. Those saying they are employees are lying and I have no affiliation with them. Thanks for suggesting it.

I do know Linked In is a good social networking site and I don't want this kind of thing to ruin it. LinkedIn should offer some sort of recourse though.

@ArranWood I may look to connect. Thanks.
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Intermission 13 years ago

@JohnMcCabe, I guess that is what I have to do. I will have to make it very clear I am a sole owner and operator with NO employees. Those saying they are employees are lying and I have no affiliation with them. Thanks for suggesting it.

I do know Linked In is a good social networking site and I don't want this kind of thing to ruin it. LinkedIn should offer some sort of recourse though.

@ArranWood I may look to connect. Thanks.
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