What I learned when trying to setup a company profile on LinkedIn:
1. You can’t use gmail, yahoo or the like as your contact email for a LinkedIn company profile. While this is probably a vetting tool for LinkedIn to make sure that a company profile is legitimate, for small businesses that haven’t set up such an email website domain, this is problematic.
2. LinkedIn doesn’t make it easy to remove a profile once it’s created. If you are a small operation and you might either go back to full-time employment or merge into another small business, LinkedIn makes it difficult to remove a company profile. In the email they sent when I inquired about this, they wrote: “I have received your request to remove a Company Profile however this is usually a request that is only granted in extreme cases.”
3. Don’t create a company profile on LinkedIn without seriously considering that it will not be as easy as clicking on a “remove” button should you change your mind.
4. LinkedIn doesn’t provide much guidance about the business considerations for creating such a profile in its FAQ. This seems like a no-brainer. Questions like what, “what are the benefits of creating a LinkedIn company page?” and “What size companies should consider creating such a profile?” come rushing to mind but not to LinkedIn.
Tags: company profiles, Linkedin
Reading Tea Leaves by Randy Wilson 
August 20, 2010 at 12:04 pm |
I WISHED I’d read this wisdom BEFORE creating my company’s profile. However, I THINK I have been able to edit it in my favour. This will only lead LinkedIn to known as a source of MIS-information… which, I feel, the deserve for not allowing deletions when/where necessary.
Thanks for posting this. I shall be warning others!
September 7, 2010 at 9:11 am |
hi..
thanks fr the inputs from your end, i m facing similar probs with company profile on linkedin.
but yea..only editing is a solution to it…