10 ways to communicate with your LinkedIn connections
Bob McIntosh
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I tell my LinkedIn workshop attendees that I spend approximately an hour a day on LinkedIn.Their faces register surprise; and I'm sure some of them are thinking, "Does this person have a life?"
Some of the time I spend on LinkedIn, I explain, is communicating with my connections, because communicating with them is the best way for me to let my connections know I'm still there.
Other than sending direct messages to your connections, here are 10 ways to connect with your LinkedIn connections.
1. The number one way to communicate is posting Updates. How many you post is up to you, but I suggest at least one a day. This is when I get remarks from my attendees about them not having time to make an update a week.
To illustrate how easy it is, I post two Updates within five minutes as I'm talking to them. The first Update tells my connections what I'm doing at the moment, which of course is leading the workshop. The next one is sharing an article from my first degree connections or Pulse.
2. Another way to communicate with your connections is to "Like" their updates. Liking their updates is great, but it takes very little effort to simply click the link. Like, Like, Like. Be more creative and add a comment which can generate discussion, or reply to your connections privately.
3. I'll visit my connection's profiles--with full disclosure--many times a day. My connections will visit my profile many times, as well. When they "drop in" and have disclosed themselves (not Anonymous LinkedIn User or Someone from the Entertainment Industry), I'll show my appreciation by writing, "Thanks for visiting my profile." This will also lead to a discussion.
Founder/CEO at Community Health Focus, Inc.
7 年Great information. Thanks. Do you do a workshop on ways to make connections with perspective investors?
CEE Cyber Security
7 年very helpful informations. Thank you !! :-)
Entrepreneur | Eduvangelist I Founder I Lawyer HC I Elected Entrepreneurship-Stanford & CJBS Cambridge Uni. I Pro. Cert. Innovation, Entrepreneurship-BabsonX, HarvardX
8 年Thanks for the wonderful insight.
Business , Logistics and Supply Chain trainer/E-Learning/Lecturer at Australian institute of Business and Technology , Reach Community College , Australian vocational training accedemy ,+1 more Hobart Tasmania
8 年Great article Bruno i agree with what you say and i already do 9 /10 of the ways to communicate with my connections i also send a little pleased to meet you note to my new connections it makes a difference to the depth of the connection between the two of you
Managing Director at Bluegem Software
8 年Great article - thanks. Often there's a fine line between selling and sharing information. One of the groups I'm in decided to appoint a judge and jury to 'protect' the group members from anyone who 'might' have a marketing agenda, whether or not they were overtly selling. What happened to choice and freedom of speech? Is this a common practice with LinkedIn groups?