Create LinkedIn connection messages that never get declined

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Key quotes:

  • "First, I’ll walk you through the exact process you can use to get a job interview at your dream company even if you don’t know a single person there — you won’t even need to apply online."
  • "I personally used these exact strategies to get interviews and offers at companies like Google, Uber and Twitter."
  • "Looks like a spot is open in New York: Next, you are going to find someone who not only knows about the role, but could potentially have an impact on hiring for it."
  • "The easiest way to get a hold of a company email address is to reach out to someone in sales or media because both of these departments usually have inbound lead forms and people on the other end ready to pounce on those leads."
  • "I’m sure you’ve read the horror stories about crazy questions they ask people like “Quick — How many golf balls can fit inside a school bus,” or, “how many gas stations are there in Manhattan?” The truth is, most of these companies have done away with those questions."
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Key quotes:

  • "You send the LinkedIn invitation to your friend or colleague from work and very often it is accepted within 24 hours."
  • "People want to see a good profile that reads well and communicates serious thoughtfulness."
  • "If you are going to get anything wrong, it should not be the names of potential connections in LinkedIn Messages."
  • "If you are offering a job, don’t use a LinkedIn invitation for it."
  • "So yes, your message was compelling and they will want you to be in their connections because they like your profile, but a lunch and similar request in the first invitation is just taking it too far."
  • "Do not make people commit to your LinkedIn request other than accepting your invitation."
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Key quotes:

  • "When you create updates via the new company pages admin center you can make edits to the social media copy in the space directly under your company logo."
  • "If you don’t have very many page followers then the rest of this article will be useful in showing you how to amplify your company page content via personal LinkedIn updates."
  • "A share also enables you with options to share: Update: Admins are now able to like, share, and comment directly from the company page feed."
  • "You can only do this in the admin center now: Once you find the page update you want to promote, then, just like in your LinkedIn feed you hit the like or the share button of the update which you’d like to share with your network."
  • "When you share an update from a company page — or from a company page post in your home page feed, it renders differently than when you cut and paste a link or when you use a LinkedIn social share button."
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Key quotes:

  • "Rule number one is emotion is what creates viral posts on LinkedIn and this only comes from acting like a human and not like a robot from a company."
  • "If you’re not adding value and just promoting yourself, then I promise you, you will be ignored ” There seems to be this unwritten rule that you can’t add connections on LinkedIn that you don’t know or haven’t met — this is total BS."
  • "Find people who you don’t know from companies you are interested in and add them so you can start to expand your world."
  • "When you post, try and think of ways you can add value to your audience and share tips that people will find interesting."
  • "Through these two actions, you will get sales prospects but these people won’t become prospects until you take the conversation off LinkedIn."
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Transcript: Would you like to send a personalized Linkedin message automatically to a targeted list of contacts in your Linkedin Network Or send connect request to a preferred selection of new potential business partners Up to now this has been a painful process you have to choose a person's profile page hit the send LinkedIn message or connect button copy and paste your message manually personalize it and only then can you send it when you do this hundreds or even thousands of times you lose a lot of your most valuable resource time introducing LinMail ! LinMail allows you to send a personalized message to your chosen list automatically simply target those you wish to receive a message or connect request and type or paste your template LinkedIn message LinMail will then individualize the message with each recipients name with one click even your personalized message to your targeted list eliminate mind-numbing repetition and save hours a day LinMaill is a chrome extension you'll be up and running in minutes LinMail is scalable and there's a configuration and meet your needs from solo professional to linkedin marketing manager with many clients enhance your marketing and save valuable time with linkedin... See more →

Transcript: This is to clean and today we're going to talk about how to get 500 connections on LinkedIn a lot of people they want to know how to get five mil connections because what happens on LinkedIn is if you get like any number between like zero and 500 the LinkedIn profile will actually show 13 connections hundred and twenty-one connections and for some reason people feel insecure about having less than 500 because if you have 500 a thousand or 10,000 we're just a show 500 plus a so long as people want to get 500 people and I'm gonna show you a couple of ways how you can do that one of the key things if your profile is in default mode your profile will set the default connection on your profile to connect so that's the big blue button on your LinkedIn profile if you have changed it to a follow button I'm gonna put a link below in the comments or descriptions you can check how to make this happen if it was set to follow as a default you might want to check this back to connect so you get more people to connect with... See more →

Key quotes:

  • "It goes both ways: the LinkedIn connection request is nuanced and problematic."
  • "To help navigate design limitations and personal expectations, I suggest a LinkedIn philosophy (balanced with healthy online security practices and social networking courtesies)."
  • "When I talk to professionals who are building the confidence with LinkedIn, they’re often anxious about the cultural norms of connection requests."
  • "LinkedIn “strongly recommend that you only accept invitations to connect from people you know.” Realistically, we’re all searching for opportunities (jobs, talent, business development, influence) through access to and insight from people beyond our immediate social graph."
  • "I’ve experimented with a few difference practices around accepting connection requests."
  • "While I can unfollow users in my feed but remain connected, spamming and similar behaviour usually encourages me to remove the contact with the confidence that I gave them a fair chance."
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Transcript: Hey guys how's it going this is Viper Cindy and welcome to the second hack of the LinkedIn growth hack series well let me show you something I have a total of 27 thousand connections life time on LinkedIn and look at the growth but I've been telling you have started concentrating on my profile in the last three months and look at the growth of my network has been it's been crazy from 29th to 6th you look at the graph how it has grown to a 2,000 connections right how do I do this and more importantly why do I do this right this video is about teaching your small hack on how you can quickly grow your network and well and when I mean that quick lead actually doesn't mean the most effective or the efficient way but a lot of people keep asking me how do you grow your network really fast and this is the video about right the reasons why you should grow your network fast and big and relevant is because this if you can see there are total of 22 thousand 137 views in last 90 days on my LinkedIn profile that... See more →

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