Let's talk about LinkedIn networking best practices.
I'm gonna share with you ten best practices.
Again, we'll look at these a little bit more when we go into LinkedIn, but I need you to understand
this list of ten best practices.
Number one, you must focus on searching for and finding ways to connect with your target audience.
It's really important that you focus on your target audience.
You don't want to focus on everyone on LinkedIn.
You want to focus on the right people.
You want to also include your focus on your target audiences influencers.
Because these people can introduce you to your target audience and help you get a conversation started
with them.
Now, while you're focused on what's important for you in your business or your career, you also need
to be accepting of invites from others whom you may be able to help along the way.
Now they need to be relevant to you in some way or another.
That's important.
But don't make your networking so one sided that you're not helping others because it's the process
of helping those others that can help you create value as well.
There were four.
Don't send a LinkedIn to anybody who does not know who you are.
There's better ways of doing this rather than sending an invite and hoping and praying that they will
accept your invite.
But I hope it and praying are not business tactics.
There were five.
Every time you send a LinkedIn invite, you must use no ifs, ands or buts.
About this, you must include a personal note.
That person could be sitting right beside you.
You could have just hung the phone over.
That doesn't make any difference.
You use a personal note because a it's the right thing to do and b it leaves a crumb in their inbox
from you that they can bump into later.
Number six Tips for Networking in the Best Practices for Networking on LinkedIn.
Once you connect, you must find a way to engage with your new connections in ways that are relevant
to their relevance to you.
At some level based on how relevant they are to you, you must engage with them immediately because
if you don't engage immediately, you miss out on building the strongest relationship from the get go.
Number seven.
You must make the conversation with your new connection all about them until they give you permission
to make it about you.
You can encourage that, but you need to start with making that conversation about them.
No rain.
US manager LinkedIn invites.
Don't let them get out of hand.
Don't let there be so many that you haven't accepted that it becomes daunting or overwhelming or tough
for you to manage those invites because then you won't go do it.
And furthermore, don't leave so many you sent out pile up because then it becomes overwhelming and
daunting for you to clean that up as well.
So manage it on a regular basis.
Number nine, don't get rambunctious with your LinkedIn invites and don't deviate from a good process.
I remember of the days years ago, this is probably 2005, 2006.
I had the LinkedIn app on my phone and I saw I could just bang on it.
Connect, connect, connect, connect.
I just kept hitting the connect button.
I'm like, Wow, all these people connect, connect, connect.
The LinkedIn shut me down because I was sending out too many invites.
So we're not getting accepted.
You don't want that to happen to you.
It is still it happens even more so now.
Number ten.
I say this?
You, me?
You need to make a new LinkedIn connection every day.
Average it out if you would like.
But you really want to focus on growing your LinkedIn network in meaningful ways, connecting with the
right people, getting into conversations with the right people.
It's not a matter of how big your LinkedIn network is.
It's a matter of that next connection, that next person you meet, that next person you get introduced
to could make all the difference in the world, in your business or your career.
Make a new connection every day.