LinkedIn is a fantastic resource that you can use to make new connections and build relationships that are going to be useful to you in your business. But did you know that you could also use it to find people you may have lost touch with?

I have tracked down several ex colleagues in the past year or so. It has been great to reconnect with all these people, find out what they have been doing, learn about their new jobs and of course to tell them about my business! And now that these connections have been remade it will be easy for me to keep in touch.

It’s easy to lose contact with our friends – people move jobs, move house, relocate to different parts of the country or even abroad. Before we had the internet it was virtually impossible to track them down without doing a lot of hard work or hiring a private detective! But now with tools like LinkedIn around there’s really no excuse for not making the effort to reignite those old relationships. Who knows what will come of it?