So I woke up the other day and checked my email and I read this message from LinkedIn.
When you work at home, and spend most of your day helping others reach their goals, it’s nice to get a little kudos for you own hard work as well.
Top 10% of Linked In Profiles by views… NICE!
Here’s my top 10% profile. 
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/profile/3/4ba/a35
What’s interesting is I could make more improvements on the profile, but the quote by George S Patton applies here, “A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.”
Just set your goal to always improve on your social media presence and I promise you’ll make progress.
So I’m posting for a few reason:
1. As a little pat on my own back for my hard work.
2. To point out that Linked In has grown to a huge 200 million users. Don’t ignore it, but have a plan.
3. To ask if Linked In is something your would like to see me write about a little more often.
We focus on Facebook so often here that maybe you’d like to some Linked In, pop up every so often.
Thank you to everyone who viewed my profile, and help me achieve the top 10% of Linked In. I look forward to meeting all my new contacts from this past year and the coming year.
Cathie Frizalone February 11, 2013 at 8:36 am
I wonder how many views gets someone in the top 10%? I got the same email today and googled to see if I could find that answer, found your blog. I can’t imagine I get many views at all. I’ve worked for the same company for 24 years, almost all of my connections are folks I know personally or have worked with via phone or email and I am not very active on that site. Do they have millions of members that signed up and abandoned it? Not trying to take anything away from you, you probably do have a highly viewed profile, just curious!
Tom Lyons February 11, 2013 at 9:19 am
Great question Cathie, I went and checked and had 3035 profile views in 2012.
Given top 10% ranged anywhere for 20 million to 10 million profiles, before the 5% award was givin, there could be a big spread in the amount of views depending where you fall.
Also, the views may not have been for one year, some people have hinted that it has been over the total length your profile has been active. So a very old profile would have accumulated views just with time.