Some tips from me on how to increase the number of connections and followers on LinkedIn.

1. Put a good photo on your profile to show your face well and set you apart from other users. A good photo will help you get more followers.

2. Write a quality title.

A good headline will help attract attention. It can be your title, your profession, your message to others, your mission or what benefits you bring to people.

3. Tell us about yourself in the profile.

By providing more information about yourself, you can interest others in your person. It can be your knowledge, achievements, a story about your personality, your life experience, your work, hobbies, interests. You can write anything that you think might interest others. By the way, common interests will help you strengthen relationships, inspire trust in each other and find new connections.

4. Share your achievements with connections.

If you have received an award, a certificate of appreciation, acquired new skills or received other achievements. Place them on your profile. It shows that you know how to work for results, benefit people and constantly work on self-improvement.

5. Indicate your work experience.

Where did you work? In what position? What were your responsibilities?

6. Indicate where you studied.

Write in which educational institutions and in which specialties you studied, licenses and certificates that you received in additional courses.

7. Indicate the skills you have.

By pointing out the skills you have, you help people better understand what you are aware of.

8. Help a friend confirm his skills and write a recommendation.

Going to your friend's page, another person may come across you in his profile. A good recommendation to a friend will help not only him but also you to promote yourself. so helping a friend will not only make him happy, but also help yourself.

9. A good recommendation will help you get more contacts.

If people use your services or admire you as a person, ask them if they did not do it themselves, let them write you a recommendation. When a new person comes to your profile and reads your recommendations, he can better imagine you and how you can be useful to him and send you a request for connection.

10. Add your contacts to your profile.

Your contacts will help people contact you faster.

11. Fill in the profile to the maximum.

When your profile has enough information about you, people who visit your profile can learn more about you, and you will have more opportunities to get new connections.

12. Create good content.

Be interesting and benefit people, create positive feelings. Share your experience, knowledge, motivate, inspire, share interesting facts, positive content, entertainment. Your content should attract attention and encourage others to send you a request for connection or follow you. You do not know what content will lead to success, experiment and observe what your audience likes best.

13. Be active and show yourself.

Share different content with your audience. Write posts, articles, share quality pictures, photos, record videos. Participate in various activities.

14. Help others grow.

When your connections distribute content, like it, comment, share, mention them to your posts and to the posts of your connections and influencers, because by helping others to grow you can get new connections and followers.

15. Don't be afraid to send a request for friendship.

If you like a person's content, or you think it's valuable to you, send them a connection request.

16. Greet your connections with the holidays.

Have any of your connections have a birthday, promotion, anniversary or other accomplishments or seasonal holidays have begun. Make them a holiday and greet them with these events. People will be glad that you took the time to remember them and congratulate them. This will create a warmer and friendlier relationship that will help you in future cooperation, and they can recommend you to their friends.

17. Don't let your audience forget about you.

Content should be distributed daily, if there is no time, then at least several times or once a week. This will not only give you new connections and followers, but will also remind your existing audience about you, making it easier to get in touch with you.

Written by Tatiana Shevchuk.