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I didn't realise it was such a big deal. Any chance you could spell out what the key benefits are to you? I use LinkedIn to read up (i.e. spy) on people quite a
by arctangent 15y ago
I didn't realise it was such a big deal. Any chance you could spell out what the key benefits are to you? I use LinkedIn to read up (i.e. spy) on people quite a bit if I am going to be working with them but I don't know why this would be useful for people who are already emailing me.
- shykes 15y agoSure. The key benefit in a nutshell: it makes context switching less painful. I'm introduced by email to a lot of people I don't know - new and potential customers, new and potential partners, lots and lots of potential hires, etc. A fair number of these introductions evolve into two-way conversations. And, as probably everybody here, my overall dose of email is way too high. The result of all this is constant context switching between too many mental threads. Rapportive makes each context switch slightly easier. In aggregate that saves me immense amounts of mental cycles.
- saurik 15y agoI don't use Rapportive, but the idea that when I receive an e-mail it might tell me "you don't know this person, but your coworker Bob knows him from their old company together" (which is what LinkedIn generally provides) is compelling enough that if I used Gmail I'd be installing it right now.
- ig1 15y agoAre you on any mailing lists ? do you receive unsolicited business emails ? Rapportive completely removes the friction from looking up people.