Rule Team is Linkedin! 

The Rule Team is "Linkedin" to professionals and businesses all over the globe.  In a nutshell, it is our hope that our clients can benefit from this vast network in order to connect them to the resources they need to buy, sell, invest and relocate in this real estate market.  Linkedin helps us do that!  Click on www.linkedin.com/in/thebrianrule for more info.

LinkedIn Facts

• LinkedIn operates the world’s largest professional network on the Internet with more than 100 million members in over 200 countries and territories.
• More than half of LinkedIn members are currently located outside of the United States.
• There were nearly two billion people searches on LinkedIn in 2010.
• Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., LinkedIn also has U.S. offices in Chicago, New York, Omaha and San Francisco. International LinkedIn offices are located in Amsterdam, Bangalore, Delhi, Dublin, London, Melbourne, Mumbai, Paris, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney and Toronto.
• The company’s management team is comprised of seasoned executives from companies like Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, TiVo, PayPal and Electronic Arts. The CEO of LinkedIn is Jeff Weiner.
• LinkedIn is currently available in nine languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Turkish and Romanian.
• LinkedIn started off 2011 with about 1,000 full-time employees located all around the globe, up from around 500 at the beginning of 2010.

LinkedIn and Business

• As of January 2011, LinkedIn counts executives from all 2010 Fortune 500 companies as members; its hiring solutions were used by 73 of the Fortune 100 companies as of March 22, 2011.
• More than 2 million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages.
• LinkedIn represents a valuable demographic for marketers with an affluent & influential membership.
• Thousands of developers are using LinkedIn APIs to create innovative tools and services for professionals.