So how do we actually go about finding people on Linked-In that we want to commit to and avoid a lot
of the hard work effort and time and asking people for the mission and introducing people via third
parties and that sort of thing.
How do we do it with the smooth a simple and the minimum effective dose way of going about it.
Well it's dead simple.
So in this example I'm just going to search for a generic name and let's say we can connect with this
guy so I'm going to search for Davey Smith right.
Davis David Smith search for David Smith's name as you can see it's a fairly generic name and there
are twenty thousand seven hundred and fifty nine David Smiths on LinkedIn.
So first of all I've got this guy here Dave.
Dave Smith second degree connection co-director sultriness principal consultant marketing strategy and
technology.
So now what we can do here is we can say that Dave's got one shared connection with myself so we can
say it's Lisa and we can see some other similar people in our network.
What I we do here.
The easiest and quickest way is not to press the connect button Hey it's actually to click on dives
time from here then press the connect button and link to it and we'll ask you how do you know dive.
By default I always suggest we've done business together.
I choose the company that is relevant that he would know me from now.
I've never done business with Dave but if you select.
We've done business together Linked-In Don't ask me any more questions or ask to be introduced or anything
like that so you can reach out to any second degree conviction in this way.
So what you would do now is always select the business that's most appropriate for you to reach out
to him from an never ever ever send an individual collection request using the default template that
Linked-In give you.
It's a total waste of time and I generally tend to get most people into my network anyway.
However if I get a standard template response.
Hi Chris I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.
Hi Dave I'd like to add you to my personal network on LinkedIn.
If I get those sort of responses or correction requests it doesn't really say a lot.
I'm not really excited by the prospect of connecting with this person I don't know why they're trying
to connect with me or anything like that.
So the simple way in which I do it is to type a message in here.
Hi Dave I noticed we both were connected to lease you when we obviously mix in the same circles.
Why don't we couldn't get it right.
Or something similar to that you don't have to type out exactly that but I give Dave a reason I give
David a reason for connecting with me the fact that we both know somebody already.
Now in later lecture We'll talk about templating this sort of communications request or contact request
connection request and that will make this process a whole lot easier.
But the simple thing to remember here is when you do a name search or search for whatever reason.
Don't press this button here that says connect.
Always click on Dave's name or the name of the contact.
Then click on Connect then select.
We've done business together.
Choose your company and then write Dave a personal message.
It's the easiest and quickest way to get connected to new individuals that you want to connect to.
It doesn't rely on any third parties being able to make the introduction for you or anything like that.
And from my own personal experience I get between 70 to 80 percent success rate for connect into absolutely
anybody using this method.