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Make it Easy for Your Customers to Recommend your Product & Services on LinkedIn

LinkedIn recently added Company pages to their site to allow for businesses’ to showcase their product and services.  Additionally, last week, LinkedIn also released a “share” button to make interacting socially with LinkedIn effortless.  Now to draw more attention to the already over 50,000 products and services on Company pages, LinkedIn rolled out 1-click recommendations for the products and services on your website.  By embedding this “recommend” button on your business’ site, pleased customers are directly linked to promote your products and services on LinkedIn with just a click of the mouse.  Making it easy for your happy customers to bring in more customers.

Adding this new button is a simple as copy and pasting a code into the HTML of your website, you can get the  code from your company page on LinkedIn for your specific products and services.

Here’s the code snippet you’ll need to embed the button for each of your services (or products).

Product or service name: Extreme Makeover: LinkedIn Edition

Code snippet for LinkedIn ‘recommend’ button:
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://platform.linkedin.com/in.js“></script><script type=”in/recommendproduct” data-company=”661863″ data-product=”10972″data-counter=”right”></script>

Product or service name: LinkedIn in 15 Minutes a Day

Code snippet for LinkedIn ‘recommend’ button:
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://platform.linkedin.com/in.js“></script><script type=”in/recommendproduct” data-company=”661863″ data-product=”10977″data-counter=”right”></script>

To get code snippets for additional services (or products), just replace the Product ID # (data-product=) in the code snippet above. You can find the Product ID # for any of your products from the URL of the respective product pages – it’s the number that follows “prdid=” in the URL.

With just a simple cut and paste customers can recommend your product living on LinkedIn from anywhere! Increase the engagement of your business’ LinkedIn company page and add these buttons today!

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