LinkedIn Christmas Tips ????

Ho ho ho, LinkedIn friends! ??

'Tis the season of giving on LinkedIn, so I'm stuffing your stockings with a sackful of festive Linkedin tips & tricks.

Let's start off jolly with some hot-off-the-press new stuff:

Tip 1

Certain LinkedIn Company Pages now have an inbox!

Want to make images like you're seeing in this newsletter? ??

Tip 2

Most people with a gold Premium badge on their LinkedIn profile will have enabled the 'Open Profile' feature.

This means any non-connection can message them for f-f-f-free! ??

For non Premium LinkedIn members it looks like there is soon going to be a limit of 10 connection requests (with an additional note attached) limit per month, so this approach could be huge for people in the not-to-distant future who only use the free version of LinkedIn, so get in there now before the gold badge train sets off at full steam, because everyone will be doing soon!

Tip 3

LinkedIn native scheduling update - good tidings!

You can now finally schedule LinkedIn polls and posts with multiple images via the clock symbol in the post composer.

This Christmas miracle works on personal profiles and company pages.

Tip 4

Now I know I've been beating the drum of SmartLinks for a while...

...but that's because they let you wrap up content in a neat little shareable package with a big bow on top. ??

Here's an example of one we built:

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• In 1-on-1 communication via LinkedIn message to connections
• Via LinkedIn InMails to 2nd and 3rd degree connections

On your profile in your featured section:

Via your profile link (if you have enabled this):

With the new profile link on premium this link also shows in your posts!

There are also many 1-to-many communications aka in your email signature, in your newsletter or anywhere else you do 1-to-many comms.

The important thing is that everyone who clicks becomes instantly visible to you!

And LinkedIn also give you a breakdown of how long the read for too!

Bonus Tip

LinkedIn now has 985 million members, as announced recently in Microsoft's Fiscal Year 2024 Q1 results. Almost a billion people! ??

LinkedIn Sales Navigator list building tools will soon have AI built into them in order for you to filter through the noise and efficiently find ideal buyer personas you want to talk to, but it's always best to send them something valuable first (before trying to sell them anything at all), therefore I suggest combining SmartLinks with Sales Navigator in order to get the best possible results.

Instead, host an informative SmartLink & send it to your prospect and track if the prospect clicked the link and if they potentially found it of enough valuable to share it with others! This is entirely possible with SmartLinks, so give it a go!