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Why is it so hard to share links on LinkedIn?


You would not believe the level of insanity you have to go through to allow a link to see an organic audience on LinkedIn.

Recently, I caught a video from a guy named Mark P. Jung, a consultant whose startup Authority B2B basically teaches companies and desired influencers the road they need to take to attain LinkedIn success. Jung, in a video shared by content marketer Lindsay McGuire, characterizes the changes as “interesting UI decisions” made since Microsoft acquired the company about eight years ago, changes that have invalidated linking hacks used by the network in prior eras. I missed the Crowdstrike mess as a Linux and Mac user, but I gotta say it’s an excellent reflection of the fact that we put too many of our eggs in singular baskets.

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