LinkedIn Tips: Register Email Addresses and Take the LinkedIn Tour

LinkedIn Tips
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Tip 1

Register your business and personal email addresses.

On the LinkedIn system you should register all business and personal email addresses with which you may potentially receive emails from current or potential LinkedIn contacts. Before proceeding to the numbered steps below, please note the following:

o Say you received your invitation from me in your personal email, and as a result you set up a LinkedIn profile using only that personal email address. Now if you receive and accept a LinkedIn invitation sent to your business email from someone else, you may accidentally set up a second account in LinkedIn

· If you do accidentally create two profiles, go to https://www.linkedin.com/feedback?displayContactCustomerServiceFeedback, select “I have two accounts,” then click “Contact Customer Service”.

o You may not want to add every email address that you have. For example, I have one email address that I only use for eBay purchases; I don’t plan to add any eBay vendors to my LinkedIn contacts.

o You should consider making your personal email address the primary email address. This means that you will receive LinkedIn invitations, requests, and other LinkedIn related email at your personal email address. One of those requests may be in regards to a job opportunity for you, hence the personal email address.

At the top of every LinkedIn page, there is an “Account & Settings” link. Click on the link.
On the Account & Settings page, click the “Email Addresses” hyperlink on the right side of the page.
Under “Current Email Addresses”, you will see a list of all of the email accounts that are currently associated with your account.
If you need to add an email address, enter it next to the button “Add Email Address”, then click the button.
If under “Current Email Addresses” you see an email address that has the word “unconfirmed” next to it, then do the following:

a. Select the unconfirmed email address by clicking the circle to the left of the email address.

b. Click “Send Confirmation Message.”

c. Log into the email account to which you just sent a confirmation message.

d. Open the email from “LinkedIn Email Confirmation,” and click “Click here” to begin the confirmation process. Follow the instructions on the page to complete the process. At the end of process, you will need to click the “Account” and “Email” links again to proceed with the next step below.

Under “Current Email Addresses,” notice that the first email address is labeled the “Primary Address.” If you would like to set a different email address as a primary address, then follow these steps below:

a. Select a confirmed email address by clicking the circle to the left of the email address.

b. Click “Make Primary.”

c. Near the top of the page, you should see a message “Your primary address is now…” that verifies your selection.

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Tip 2

Take the LinkedIn Tour.

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