LinkedIn Connections – should you connect with people you don’t know? #3

by Andrea J. Stenberg
May 2nd, 2013

In yesterday’s post I talked about Open Networkers and Selective Connectors. If someone is obviously an Open Networker, feel free to send them an invitation to connect, even if you don’t know each other.

But what if they’re a Selective Connector or you’re not sure? How do you get connected without offending them or getting in trouble with LinkedIn?

Get Introduced

LinkedIn introductionsWhen you look at someone’s profile on LinkedIn, lower down on the right-hand side, LinkedIn tells you exactly how you’re connected.

If you’re not 1st degree connections (directly connected to each other) LinkedIn will tell you who in your network is also connected to the person you want to know. Read More→

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LinkedIn Connections – should you connect with people you don’t know? #2

by Andrea J. Stenberg
April 30th, 2013

The dangers of sending invitations to people you don’t know

Yesterday I told you why I think it’s a good idea to accept invitations on LinkedIn from people you don’t know. But you don’t want to be sitting around waiting for people to connect with you. You need to be proactive with your networking and start inviting people.

LinkedIn invitation to connectBefore you send out invitations to people you don’t already know, you must understand some important facets of LinkedIn culture.

Basically, there are two types of people on LinkedIn: Open Networkers and what I call “Selective Connectors”.

You need to be certain which camp a person fall into before sending an invitation to connect if you don’t know the person in the real world.

What is an Open Networker?

Open Networkers Read More→

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LinkedIn Connections – should you connect with people you don’t know?

by Andrea J. Stenberg
April 29th, 2013

If you’ve been on LinkedIn for more than about 5 minutes you’ve probably started to receive invitations from people you don’t know. So the question is: should you accept those invitations?

Connect with people on LinkedInLinkedIn states you should only accept invitations from people you know well. But should you follow LinkedIn’s advice?

While this is a personal decision, I’d like to suggest that yes you should consider adding people you don’t know to your list of connections. Here’s why:

Maybe you do know them

When you get an invitation from someone you don’t know it could be that you’ve just forgotten how you know them.

Now ideally anyone who sends you an invitation to connect on LinkedIn will personalize the invitation and include a note about how you know each other. However, we know the ideal situation doesn’t always exist in real life. If someone is relatively new to LinkedIn they may not know that they can personalize the invitation. Or they may just be lazy and assume you remember who they are.

In either case, Read More→

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Business networking – don’t just gather names

by Andrea J. Stenberg
April 4th, 2013

Gathering a stack of business cards at a networking meeting isn’t the way to grow your business. It’s a way to add more clutter to your office.

business cards pileSeriously – having a superficial conversation then grabbing their card does you no good.

If you are one of the rare people who actually does something with the cards you collect you’re still not likely to get results. If you email this person it’s SPAM. They won’t remember you and didn’t ask for the contact. In fact, your message may hit their SPAM filter.

You could send snail mail – an actual letter. Better than an email but seriously, what kind of impact will it have if you know nothing about this person and they don’t remember you?

You could Read More→

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Achieve Your Goals

by Andrea J. Stenberg
April 3rd, 2013

2nd quarter check-in

daytimer woman smallApril is the beginning of the second quarter of 2013. If you haven’t done so already, now is a good time to check in with yourself and see how you’re doing with your goals for this year.

Did you achieve your first quarter goals – financial, list building and others? Yes? Yea! Take time to celebrate.

No? Take a moment to notice what worked and what didn’t. Where there things you said you were going to do but didn’t? Read More→

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