Share your phone number and more on LinkedIn

Lawyers moan about not having enough good work, yet make it difficult for people to reach them via social networks.

I don’t know how many times lawyers have told me, “I value my privacy, I don’t freely share my contact information online.” C’mon get over it. What do you really think is going to happen to you by making it easier for people who want to reach you to do so?

LinkedIn is today’s profile of record for professionals, including lawyers. A lawyer’s LinkedIn profile is likely to rank higher on a Google search for a lawyer’s name than the lawyer’s profile on a law firm website. The first place business people like me go to look up someone when we get their name is LinkedIn.

Your contact info is as much needed, if not more needed, on LinkedIn as on your firm’s website.

LinkedIn makes it very easy for you to include all of your contact information. Phone, cell, address etc.

Go to your ‘Connections Page’ on LinkedIn. You’ll be prompted to go to page to complete your contact info.

You’ll then go to a page where you can key in your contact info.

When completing your info, liberally share your contact info that would be needed by someone to reach you wherever you are. I share my cell phone as it may be someone at a conference that wants to reach me.

This information and your email address will then be displayed to your ‘connections’ on your LinkedIn profile. Both on a desktop browser and on LinkedIn apps available for mobile devices.