- Make sure your profile is complete and current
Steps to developing a good profile
- List your previous employer and schools
- Include the details of last five to ten years of employment, prior to that time period a listing of the positions would suffice.
- Update your profile each time you’ve past or encounter major milestone. (Any promotion, awards, recognition or project completion this should be placed prominently on your profile).
- Add value to the conversation
- Having a mindset to help others. Be keen in you’re the introductory process Consider the recipient, customize you introduction to be suited also is the timing appropriate.
- Add any information that connect your introductory request to experiences or a person that might move the process along. Be a contributor be a solutions person
- Observe and follow through with the Request of your contacts
- Most people will clearly state or imply their preferred method of contact. If you are making the contact pay keen attention to their request and contact each according the method of their liking. It is prudence to play the game on their term you’ll quite likely have a friend for life.
- Also don’t forget basic etiquette listen before you speak, or in the case of the LinkedIn profile read before you contact.
- If Follow the request of your contacts, you win
- A LinkedIn Message have equal importance as regular Email;
- Don’t minimize or assume your messages on LinkedIn platform are any less important than those of regular e-mail. Most people will placed a lot of urgency on their email or a phone call but when it comes to social media messages it is not quite as important. Nothing could be further from the truth. Don’t judge the book by its cover you may be missing out on good opportunities.
- A smart tip you may want to observe “don’t turn off e-mail notification”
- Check you LinkedIn inbox daily
- Do it, Delegate it, defer it or delete it
- Be strategic when selecting new contacts
- Actively search for new people to make a connection with, but be careful not expect business to blossom right away.
- setting your profile
- Search for people who’ll compliment your skill set
- Adopt a corporate mentally make introduction of your new contacts
- Participate in Groups or communities
- Be proactive when seeking contacts
- Use your Profile to Advertise the Full aspects of your Business
- Your webpage should contain your full web profile. It should contain everything about your web interest, to introduce others your other web interest. You should be doing these as a good practice:
- Customize your LinkedIn profile links
- Include a connection to your LinkedIn Prolife on your blog
- You should include you LinkedIn on your digital and regular business cards
- Include LinkedIn in your signature file
- Don’t Spam
- One of most despicable practice is to indulge in the spamming of other.
- Follow the basic rules of etiquette
- Refrain from Using status updates to make a connection or as marketing platform
- Refrain from using connection opportunities and a list maker for your new articles
- Never send connection requests to people you don’t know
- Don’t expect others have the Social media network practices as yourself
Set reasonable expectation for your connection, to avoid rigid positions that could become a source of frustration
- Everyone have their measure of standards for connecting, don’t have the position that you have the true model.
- Remember the prospective of your contact will be different than your they will have their reasons for allowing other to view their list
- Understand that many people live busy lives, and timely responses are not at the top of their priority.
- Sometimes recalling a name might not be at the forefront of his/her mind, so don’t think your request is purposely being ignored
- Remember that not all associates feel obligated to you and may not reciprocal in their actions.
- Don’t confuse Quality and Quantity
- Getting involve in many activities is not an indication of true accomplishment. Always have a means of assessing true results. With LinkedIn uses the metrics that qualitatively generated actual results
- Leads and Leads Generating systems
- Business associates and synergizes
- Qualified outsourcer prospects contacted
- Potential Third party outsources contacted
- Webinars setup
- Forum and Live events booked
- Publicity campaigns scheduled
- Don’t use impersonal invitations
- Using invitation that generated to appeal to the masses is a chance to offend your perspective contact. In essence you are telling your potential contact they were not important enough for you to spend some time to draft of an invitation. It is in poor taste and should never indulge in the practice. Requesting a contact is good but think how good it sounds to your perspective contact you have interest in them as a contact.
- Here are a few good tips:
- Whenever necessary be concise, direct and to the point
- Do your research and be certain they are a part of LinkedIn
- Invite the contact to join if they are not a member
- Make it personal