Linkedin.com : how to get 1000 plus connections in less than a month

Expand your Linkedin network, Now !

Linkedin is world’s largest business-oriented social networking service with over 259 million members in more that 200 countries around the globe. Linkedin connects world’s professionals to each other.

                           Your network is the most valuable part of your Linkedin profile, we all understand the importance and power of having a large Linkedin Network, the more connections I have the more people will see my status updates and will receive my messages, this way opportunities will rush to me and help my business grow or get me hired in a good organization on a high salary.  In fact recent study shows that Linkedin is especially helpful when it comes to landing high paying jobs. 

                           We all want to expand our network as big as possible however, the biggest question is “how ?”. Its not as easy as it may seem, the biggest obstacle in expanding our network is “Linkedin restriction policy”. We need to be very careful while making any efforts to grow our network, the most common reason for a Linkedin account restriction is sending too many invitations to people you don't know, the fact is only five "I Don't Know" responses Or “Flagged as spam” may get your Linkedin account restricted. So, again, the question of the question is “How can I expand my Linkedin network without getting restricted?”

How to increase connections on Linkedin

Here is the answer : Start Connecting On Linkedin

Start your mission by sending requests to your friends to connect on Linkedin.

This is the best and quickest way to expand your network, start with sending requests to your friends first and then all the people you know. Check your wallet for business cards, open your mobile phones contact lists, check your email inboxes for contacts and email IDs, get more contacts from your outlook account in the office, open your Facebook and twitters friends and contact lists, this way I am sure you will easily get at least  300 to 400 contacts. Send request to them all.

                                Second best thing you can do is send requests to your friend’s connections (your second-degree connection’s), check your friend’s connections and here you will definitely see many people you already know but you were not in touch with them, send request to them all.

                                 Keep a watch on who viewed your profile because people who have visited your profile are most likely to accept your request to connect.

Connect with alumni and ex-coworkers

This is one of the easiest ways to increase the number of connections. Send requests to the Alumni/ alumnae as well as your colleagues/co-workers in the previous organizations.

Write “Hi XXX, we worked (or studied) together at XXX, good to see you on Linkedin, I would like to reconnect with you.”

Personalise Your Message to connect 

     While sending a request, instead of Linkedins non-personal and boring ‘note’ that goes with each invitation to connect; Use personalized note like “It was nice meeting you this morning at the breakfast at Hilton, I’d like to stay connected with you on Linkedin” or you can write “thanks for the great information you shared in the meeting let’s stay connected here on Linkedin”. The message doesn’t necessarily have to be a long and wordy, just write something to help remind them about how you know each other.

Send requests to the people you don’t know

Linkedin doesn’t like this, however this is also one of the best ways to get more and more connections.. you need to be very careful while sending request to the people you don’t know.

                              Do not be that guy “I want To Connect With You On Linkedin”, how would you feel if a stranger walks up to you and say “I want to become your friend” and walks away?

While sending requests to unknown professionals be totally transparent and Explain why you're connecting. Write “Hi XXX, While searching some information i came across your profile, I am very impressed by the achievements that you have and by the progress in your career, I'd like to add you to my professional network” Or write “Hi XXX I just came across your LinkedIn profile and noticed that we being in the same profession have a lot in common and think there may be an opportunity to collaborate at some point of time in the future, please accept my request to connect.”

Next thing you can do is add your Linkedin profile link in the signature on your emails.

Every working professional sends 10 to 30 emails on an average every day, when you put your Linkedin link in your signature you actually send a request to connect on Linkedin with every single mail you send. 10 requests every day is about 300 requests a month. Good number to be happy.

Print your Linkedin link on your business cards.

I personally exchange around 200 business cards every month and when I have my Linkedin link printed on my card, my every business card works like an “invitation to connect card” for me.

Do Email marketing for yourself

Linkedin has a CAP of 100 invitations every day (after 100 it asks you to enter a captcha) and maximum of 3000 invitations can be sent, you can definitely request Linkedin to grant more invitations however it is very time consuming, so what should you do ?

Start doing email marketing for yourself, you can get “N” number of email addresses on many sites, blogs and forums all you need to do is-

Join groups of Linkedin “open networkers”

Like you, Everybody wants to grow their network, some smart people have created groups on many sites and blogs, what they simply do is, start a thread on a forum saying “Hey I am an open networker and would like to expand my network on Linkedin if you also want to expand your network then please put your email address in the comment” this way hundreds of email addresses are shared and connections are increased in no time.

Make your Linkedin account look good : add more information.

That’s right, you need to make your Linkedin profile look good, you need to fill in complete information about yourself, write as much as you can and add more and more keywords in the description . There are two rezones why you should do this.

1.         The more information you add the more keywords are added and the more your account becomes visible on Linkedin

2.         Second rezone is any visitors that your profile has, should feel that you are the person he or she should have in his connection.(trust me this definitely works)

Don’t forget to add profile picture

One of the biggest mistakes people do is no photo, or putting picture of their dogs, husbands/wives, babies. Never ever do that, Always add a recently clicked picture of yourself to your profile so people would recognize you.

 

These are some tips and tricks to expand your Linkedin network easily and quickly.

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