How to Do LinkedIn Without Cringeworthy Connect Messages
Mark Firth
Founder - $ 3.2m | Helping Entrepreneurs Over 40 Win Clients - Even if they are competing against professional creators who already have an audience
Outreach is cringeworthy, nobody wants to do it in the same way as the people that are approaching them.
With all those awful contrived messages that just get ignored
It’s like walking up to a really attractive person in a bar, starting a conversation and they look at you and walk away. Then 2 weeks later, to rub your face in the dirt, you then see them getting cosy with someone you really don’t like
Of course, the LinkedIn equivalent is they just ignore your connect messages and then pay your competitor a few thousand dollars. And this is the competitor who is nowhere near as good as you in what they do
Frustrating isn’t it?
But what if you didn’t have to do outreach on LinkedIn, and you didn’t have to do ANY messaging because in 2019 this really isn’t necessary
Let me explain right now how to spare yourself the embarrassment of outreach
How?
Well, lets think about the conversation in the bar we mentioned earlier and ask ourselves what specifically determines if you are ignored or they engage in conversation
Is it what you say?
No way, the majority of communication is non verbal and we all know that right?
In other words, the success of that interaction depends on
* Your body language
* Your clothes
* Your expressions
* Your hair
* Your gait
* Your confidence
* If you smell like crap
etc etc
In other words, how you make the person feel, NOT the words that come out of your mouth. And because communication on LinkedIn is virtually the same as any normal face-to-face meeting it means the same rules apply only people go straight to looking at your profile and place very little weight on your connect message
Which means, you profile is actually your connect message - it does all the heavy lifting and influences how people actually feel.
Our clients know that and the vast majority of deals start at the connect stage when they see our profiles. Nice and easy.
So ask yourself?
Is your profile the smart guy in nice clothes with a nice energy or the stinking, untidy disaster in old clothes who makes you want to run for the hills, and how does it compare to your competition
It really is everything on LinkedIn