With more than 135 million users, 59 percent of which are located outside of the United States, and with 75 of the Fortune 100 companies using the network for marketing and recruiting purposes, LinkedIn has become a critical platform for building, connecting with, and growing your personal and professional networks.

As the leading business social network, LinkedIn offers the chance to connect with professionals all around the world and from all industry backgrounds. But how do you convert networks into customers and ‘likes’ into sales?

By Ekaterina Walter as seen in The Next Web