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Forbes has LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner on the cover—but the professional social network's business model is the real hero of the story.
Here are some of the amazing statistics Forbes' George Anders reports:
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Update: LinkedIn's monetization-products team, not its sales force, is called "Team Money." We've corrected the story to reflect that.
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- LinkedIn users spend an average of 18 minutes a month on the site. Facebook users spend 6.4 hours a month.
- But LinkedIn gets $1.30 in revenue for every hour those users spend on site. Facebook: 6.2 cents.
- Anders describes LinkedIn's most expensive product offering, LinkedIn Recruiter, as a "Bloomberg terminal" for talent scouts. It costs up to $8,200 a year per "seat," or user license.
- Adobe, a big LinkedIn customer, has 70 seats. At list prices, that's about half a million in revenue a year from a single client.
- LinkedIn's top salespeople make as much as $400,000 a year selling Recruiter.
- LinkedIn spends 33 percent of revenue on sales and marketing.
- LinkedIn's profits are expected to double this year to $70 million.
Go read the whole profile for more.
Update: LinkedIn's monetization-products team, not its sales force, is called "Team Money." We've corrected the story to reflect that.
Don't Miss: Our exclusive look inside LinkedIn's headquarters >
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