So how do we go about growing our networks in the first place.
Well first one is really easy pickings and that's the ad too you know.
So if you've got a spreadsheet for example we've got contacts in an address book if you've got it in
Outlook or any of these on the calendar address book tools.
I show you exactly how you can just simply import all of your contacts into linked in and automatically
send those collection requests to.
And you can go through your connections connections to see who you missed because no doubt we haven't
got absolutely everybody we know in our address book.
And if we're connecting to a lot of people who move in similar networks they're great.
You know we can go through a flick through a few of our connections connections see if we can identify
the people that we know that we may have missed and also invite those to connect.
We can use topics of of com more on that in a second.
We can join open network groups now open network groups are really really fantastic way to automate
some of your connection building because if you join open network groups then many of the members within
those groups will try and connect so that instantly helps you grow your legs network without you doing
any work at all once you've joined the group and I'll talk a little bit more about what open networkers
are and the groups in a second.
You can look at your LinkedIn profile to email signature.
So in your normal immersing achieved typically your mobile number a website and an email address and
your LinkedIn profile.
And if you want to be extra sassy about it then what you can do is you can put a reason why people should
connect with you on LinkedIn.
Follow me on LinkedIn for the latest updates in whatever sector Yori And don't forget the people that
you meet.
So networking events luggages tried Jones exhibitions all of this sort of stuff is really good opportunities
for adding further connections to your LinkedIn profile but you can't just simply add people that meets
to try show.
That's just a little bit creepy to be honest so the best way language to do this is to have the conversation
you exchanged business cards.
When you meet somebody in person let them know that you're going to click with them on LinkedIn.
All of a sudden you know the question marks around your reasons for connecting disappear because you
can say something along the lines of.
O'GRADY usually in yesterday.
Oh ok wopping Union vaunts across lights Rob looking for it also BTC to just let them know that you're
going to connect with them and the response rate goes through the roof.
So there's a couple of ways in which you can grow your network on some of it's a little bit more automated
certainly if you join the groups like open network and that sort of thing.
But these are just the basic activities that we can use to grow a much wider and diverse networks.
How would we go about doing this right.
So if you want to answer some of your connections you can go over to Linked-In I'm going to show you
this in screengrab Socan below the screen.
Without losing too much quality and you will notice I'm blue and word network in that top menu there
are fears that network option and click at connections you will be taken to a place that looks like
this and you can import connections from your email Muhamed from Outlook from GMO from Yahoo mail or
any other email that you have.
You simply have to do is select which e-mail account that you have there and then put your e-mail address
and your e-mail password in and your contacts will be imported into Linked-In and linked it will automatically
send you what the vote requested people saying.
All right Bob.
John wants to connect with your link to takes a very quick and easy way of being able to do that and
if you wanted to and connections in another way I know there is a couple of other ways in which you
can do to maybe Excel spreadsheets or maybe connections from some of the apps that you use.
Again if you click on the connections tab and over here on the right hand side you can see this red
scroll wheel that I've put over the top of his support highlighted for me.
There's a little.
And if you press the car this way you can open up some real potential into it and most people miss these.
You are then asked Which sort of contacts so why applications and foreign imports do you want to make
an to to team to automatically go ahead and send these requests on your behalf.
So for the first one here is our contact.
And that is vital for use in toppling.
So this is how we get to that point where we're going to top limit and we've downloaded the spreadsheet.
This is how we upload the spreadsheets.
We go to that little scroll wheel that I've just shown me and you click on Outlook contacts since V
that allows you to import a spreadsheet of contacts first name last name email address that sort of
thing.
Import the spreadsheet full of contacts and then later you will pick those recontact requests.
Act name one word of warning on this.
If you are importing a spreadsheet that's got a couple of thousand connections on there for example.
Watling will do.
It will only allow you to send 3000 connection requests to anybody before they have to manually uncap
that meet.
Now when my own cap.
That means they will look for eye connection request response ratio.
So if you've set aside a thousand connection requests and only two people have responded to those connection
requests Linked-In will think that you're up to something because you blatantly trying to connect with
people that have very little interest in connecting with you.
However if you've sent a thousand connection requests and five or six hundred of them have replied Linked-In
will up that limit for the night.
When we do the top stuff there's actually four spreadsheets that you need to upload and we recommend
doing leaving a little bit of time between each one of those uploads.
But I'll explain more about that in a second.
So you can import your contacts from your mac address book you can import them from applications which
is effen Evernote or Cardman.
And again you've got quite a few other options on the air as well.
So there is absolutely no excuse for not being able to connect with all of the people that you know.
One of our previous clients actually hired a temp because all of his contacts were in a shoe box in
a filing cabinet.
And there were literally business cards that he collected and not really done a great deal with just
dumped him in a shoe box in the bottom drawer of a filing cabinet.
So we hired a temp to put all of his business card contacts first name last name email address into
a spreadsheet.
And he simply just uploaded them to me.
So even if you've got no formalized way of accessing or important your contacts into Linked-In get them
into a spreadsheet at the very least go through all your business cards all your old notes that sort
of stuff and click to connect with as many people as you can on limted now.
Like I said originally it doesn't matter how targeted these first degree connections are.
We can use these to get hold of the people that we really do want.
Further on down the road so once we've had all of the people that we know and all we have to do then
is go through some of our connection so connections are daily that I've got quite a lot of connections
themselves so you can see here.
One of my connections at Google and Carol is going over 500 connections himself.
And you can see that he's a first degree connection of mine cause he's hollowed out on the top right
hand corner there.
Same with the patch that says first.
So I also would do if I wanted to scroll through some of iTunes connections and see if he knows anybody
that I know I would not have to purchase or anything on this at this stage.
This is just simply a quick flick through some of our more connected connections.
Having a quick look through their connections to see if we can add anybody else in there.
What I would do for that is I would simply click on the 500 plus connections wording that we can see
towards the bottom right hand side of the screen.
So I do it will open up police to these connections and I can just quickly flick through a few of those
see if anybody would know and move on.
You see very very low touch activity.