So as we're connecting and networking, you know, you find somebody you want to connect with and you
just do a real search for banana farmer.
And I find this person right here, but I want to connect with that person that I'll use this.
This person wants to be followed by default, but I can click on more and there's the connect button.
So again, every time you click Connect button, use a personal note when you send them an invite to
connect.
And then you'll notice that in my under my network.
So remember, always go over here and manage it from here.
Here's all the invites I sent and you can see that I try to keep them all under one month if they get
too old and I remove them and I'll invite them again later.
And then you'll also see, here's the received and under received.
You see all of them.
There are 37 people and two newsletters.
Or maybe if I have a company to follow me another option.
But again, I manage this pretty deliberately and I don't let it pile up more than a week or so old
because if they get too old, then it's not worth doing.
And if they're not willing to engage with me, I'm not willing to connect with them.
That's how purposeful I am about my networking on LinkedIn.
Then I have messaging.
Again, I go to messaging right here, and these are all the messages that I've come in.
The ones that are bright with the with the with the number on them, meaning there are I haven't read
them yet.
I haven't engaged with them yet.
And you can take and look for messages that are unread.
You can look for emails, messages from your connections, look for spam, and then you can look at
archived.
But I manage these pretty deliberately.
But one tip I do I'll share with you is I do not delete any message.
I'm for the most part, I don't delete them.
I may archive them, but I never delete them.
Why?
I want to remember the conversation I'm having with that LinkedIn member.
It's not my responsibility to create space for these messages.
It's LinkedIn's responsibility and they do a good job of it.
But again, I can manage messages over here or I can manage messages over here.
It's the same thing.
However you manage it based on what you're doing.
Messaging is really important, but make sure your messaging again starts with making the conversation
all about the other person first.