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Learn About Your Targets

You have two avenues to understand your possible connections— their profile and their activity.

  • Take the time to read their profile, look for the things they talk about, the problems they solve and the things that interest them. This information will be critical in starting up a conversation.
  • If you look on anyone’s profile, you’ll see the activity section. Focus on the articles and posts tabs. If you can find articles they are the best place to start. This shows the person has put time and effort into this subject, so they will really appreciate anyone that comments on them.

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Build Rapport With Them

  1. DON’T send them a generic sales message as soon as you connect. It doesn’t work, it prevents long-term engagement and gets you a bad reputation.
  2. Talk to them.. Ask how they are. Comment on something you have seen that would be relevant to them.
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Finding Your Targets

Finding Your Targets

You have multiple options for identifying the people you want to connect with on LinkedIn. It could be your CRM, maybe using the search function on LinkedIn or setting up alerts on Google. 

With some of this you’ll have a company name rather than an individual, if that is the case, the...

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Engage With Them

Start going through their activity and find appropriate posts to comment on. Your comments need to be good. No ‘awesome!’ or ‘thanks’ or ‘interesting’. You need to express an opinion and give them a chance to respond. 

The goal of commenting is for the person to become aware of...

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Keep the connection alive

The sooner you start networking, the more potential results will come your way. Maintain your connections by looking for opportunities to support the people in your network.

Write positive reviews and let them know. Add comments on their blogs and posts. Acknowledge and compliment ...

Be prepared

Be prepared

Most of the time, there will be a list of attendees available for you to browse before an event. This is your chance to develop pre-connections.

Check out their LinkedIn profile, find out something about them and use it as an ice breaker. Not only will you break any awkward silences ...

Speak directly to your audience

Speak directly to your audience

  • Speak directly to the members in your audience; look at a single person at a time, focus on them, and talk to them like you would have in a normal face to face conversation. This will help you see if they are following along.
  • Listen to your audience

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