Here is some advice for LinkedIn to make it usable for influencers
LinkedIn has become almost very unusable for me in the last several months.
I have 1 248 pending connections, and even though there is a FOLLOW button above the articles I write, there is no follow button for when people come to my profile, where there is still connect. Those pending connections (unlike on Facebook, where friend requests automatically become subscribers for your feed) are just sitting there and really approving them all if I don't know them they just found me and are trying to follow my content is a bit crazy.
I tried really hard with LinkedIn to get to have a "follow" button and be in the LinkedIn format, and the only way to do that is become an Influencer, which would obviously be nice, but I really intensively care about efficiency and practicality: The key is the follow button.
LinkedIn, at that point of moment where people really start proactively adding you, becomes a very hard-to-manage tool.
2 pieces of advice for LinkedIn for influencers:
1) Add a follow button for anyone, on their profile. Allow them to make it their primary way of being contacted
2) Make any connection that sends you a connection request automatically a follower
Basic stuff to keep up with anyone else.
Update: 1 month later +200 invites, unusability further growing
Update: Few months later +600 invites, unusable
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9 年You are making a good point – this is unfortunate and inconvenient. Hopefully the issue has been resolved for you, but if not, here is a workaround. I recommend adding this one sentence guidance to your summary to enable your readers to follow you: “To follow me: click on the drop down arrow next to “Send InMail” /“Connect” button in my profile; select “View Recent Activity”; click on the Follow button located in the top right corner of the page.” It’s regrettable that you might need to add this to your Summary, but at least you wouldn’t be losing potential followers that simply can’t figure out how to follow you. Also, adjust your Setting so that only people who know your email are able to send an invite to you – this will prevent your invites backlog from getting even worse.
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10 年Would be a good deal for both sides, kind of those WIN-WIN!
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10 年Great idea Jan Rezab!
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10 年And I am one of them: )