• Dean Holmes

    For all the people with Outlook, here is a real simple solution to get the LinkedIn Badge on your email signature:

    1. After you login to LinkedIn, look to your left bar and click “Edit My Profile” link
    2. Just under the 2nd Blue box, look for “Promote your profile with customized buttons” and click “customized buttons”
    3. Drag and Drop any of the Button Images (Badges) you like to your desktop – this should save a copy and easy to find
    4. In Outlook (I am using Outlook 2007) go to “tools” and then “options” from the menu bar
    5. From the dialogue box, select the tab “Mail Format”
    6. Toward the bottom, select the button “Signatures”
    7. Select your Signature (or create a new one)
    8. Place your mouse wherever you want the LinkedIn button (Badge) to appear in the edit window below
    9. Look for the icon just above the window you are in for “picture” and click on that
    10. Go to your desktop where you saved the LinkedIn button (Badge) and select that
    11. You should see the LinkedIn button (Badge) in your signature window now
    12. Select the LinkedIn button (Badge) and click the icon just to the right of the “Picture” icon called “insert hyperlink”
    13. In this window look on the left and select the “Existing File or Webpage” icon
    14. Go back to your page you copied the LinkedIn button from, your LinkedIn Profile, and select on the left the “View My Profile”
    15. In the URL Address Bar of your browser, highlight and copy this url
    16. Go back to Outlook and past this url in the window and white box labeled as: “Address”
    17. Save the Signature and hit ok until you are back in the main Outlook window
    18. Test your email signature before using by sending yourself an email and click the LinkedIn button (Badge) AFTER the email arrives to see if your profile is accurate
    NOTE: If you test only with an email that you start as “New Message” in Outlook, you will need to hold the control key down and select the LinkedIn button (Badge)
    Good Luck.

    Best,

    Dean Holmes
    CSO at Selling At The TOP

  • http://www.omertech.blogspot.com OmerTech

    Oh I use LinkedIn for quit a while now and it's actually not bad at all. Yea I think I'll put the LinkedIn Badge in my blog too.

  • http://www.omertech.blogspot.com OmerTech

    I use LinkedIn for quit a while, but I didn't know about the badge. I'll probably put it in my blog too.

  • http://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanawaddell nathan

    very good tutorial. i'm using the badges now. thanks!

  • http://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanawaddell blog king

    thanks again. good work. using it now.

  • http://www.dotnetlife.net Ricardo

    LinkedIn should highlight this feature more. Very useful tip!

  • http://www.minutebio.com Jeff Goldman

    I also created some “power tips” for LinkedIn that everyone will hopefully find useful. These are interactive sims that I created with Adobe Captivate and can be found at this link: http://www.minutebio.com/LI/PowerTips.htm

    Thanks,

    Jeff

  • http://nickyjameson.com Nicky

    Heartfelt thank you! And I have tweeted your blog.

  • http://www.nmgresources.ph Outsourcing Manila

    I will refer everyone I know. LinkedIn has really helped our business. We’re loving it.

  • http://marketingmeerkat.com/ Julien

    Thanks for that! That's very useful. ;-)

  • http://nathansblogspace.blogspot.com/ Nathan

    Thanks for the info, you are right it is very hard to find and I just Google it rather than spend ages trying to find it.
    Cheers

  • http://twitter.com/WindowsTalk James Fisher

    Thanks for this article, Steve! I have 're-Blogged' it.

  • Guest

    thank you!! what a life saver!!