A LinkedIn Sphere of Influence You May Have Overlooked

As a networker you know that the key to networking is visibility. The more visible you become the better your chances of running into opportunity.

The question is how do you raise your visibility on LinkedIn? Answer this question and you’ll likely find more opportunities. Logical right?

One of the ways you can increase your visibility on LinkedIn is through connections to “spheres of influence” (SOI). These are people to whom others are already connected in some way (no necessarily a LinkedIn connection).

On LinkedIn the advantage of being connected to one of these SOIs if they participate in your questions you get visibility to their network as the answering of a question is posted to the updates on their connections homepages.

So who is this sphere of influence you missed? It is the person(s) you’ll find at the experts list after clicking on the Answer Questions link under “Answers” at the top of your LinkedIn window. The window will be titled “This Weeks Experts.”

There are two big advantages to being connected to these top people. First of all just the direct visibility and exposure you get when they participate in one of your questions or you in theirs. Second, these are the people that like to answer questions. If you create good questions they will usually jump in and when you get lots of people in your questions others notice and want to add their two cents.

This prolific group of people represents a great way to increase your visibility and exposure on LinkedIn. You will benefit from finding ways to connect with them.

For a free report that discusses strategies related to  spheres of influence, get my free LinkedIn Networking Success kit and see report #4 called “Working a Room at a Live Event .” This report discusses some ways to find spheres of influence at live events and then tells you how to use that strategy on Linkedin.  Get the report free at: http://www.OnlineBusinessNetworker.net/successkit .

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