Well, yesterday was fun…
I’m working with a charity ahead of a large website redesign. I'm consulting and advising, so won’t be designing and building this particular site. We’re in the process of creating a shortlist of agencies to contact with our project brief.
I naively thought it would be a good idea to post about the project on LinkedIn (with the client’s permission, of course). Perhaps I’d get a few more agencies to add to our shortlist.
In hindsight, what followed was entirely predictable. LinkedIn is a network that exists for the sole purpose of people looking for work, and the project had a reasonable budget. So I shouldn't have been surprised by the result… but I was.
Within 24 hours of posting, it had 289 comments.
I had 399 new connection requests (!!).
28 emails.
I even got 6 WhatsApp messages (all blocked and reported as spam). I didn’t even realise my phone number was accessible.
It really felt like sharks circling after smelling blood.
I should have known better. Lesson learned.