Sunday, July 10, 2011

Linkedin Future

With the advanced and growth of the current free social networks such as Facebook and now with Google +, is there a future for the Linkedin, and especially for its Premium Pay Business Model? Why would users pay a premium service to get all the benefits from Linked In when all the same users are also on facebook and soon Google +.... Everybody is focusing n the effect that Google + can have on facebook and what about the 100 million users that are already in Linkedin? Is there a niche for socializing just for work rather than a general socializing place...? We know from advances that Google + will have different circles from your different group of friends... isn't this replacing the business circle linkedin completely? Plus now you would be able to have free video conference with skype... which would be also very useful for business purposes...
Google have a huge lead in the business world as most people use google for news and business purposes and have also a google account for larger size emails... so is Google + the end for Linkedin?

1 comment:

Chanda Pen said...

I don't believe Google+ will do much damage to Linkedin. If anything, they will take some of the market share from Facebook because of the circle feature which allows people to filter the information they want to share within the different circles.

Linkedin on the hand is more of a resume/reference site for professionals. Most employers use Linkedin to validate a potential candidate's credential. Some people will subscribe to the Premium subscription for the added features. This is why I don't think Linkedin is worried having the most users, I think they are more interested in the quality of their users which gives them an edge when it comes to targeted marketing.