A Great Way to Provide Some Value to Your LinkedIn Connections

Don’t take me wrong here, I would love the visibility and promotion that will come if you use the example used in this article. But the fact is this is a super easy way to provide value to your fellow LinkedIners and makes a great lead into a conversation.

Since you are reading my blog and learning things that few of the networkers on LinkedIn know, you can use this valuable information to provide value to those you meet on LinkedIn.

To do this you would simply go to the article, on of relevance if you are in an existing conversation, and capture the URL address at the top of the page. Since these are very long addresses you may wish to go to “tinyurl.com” and paste it in and create a tinyurl you can give folks.

Here’s an example situation.

Let’s say you’re in the Question and Answer forum and somone asks the question of “quality” versus “quantity” in building your network. You could send that person a note or put in the answer to that question the reference to my blog post “The Open Networker Debate.”

This doesn’t preclude you from answering the question – and you should, but then you can add the link as additional information.

With that gift of information you can now enter in the private section of the email an offer to connect if the other person wishes – give them your email so they can simply invite you.

Having done similar things many times I can tell you they will almost always invite you.

You can obviously do this in your own questions with respondents and in indirect invitations which I discuss in my article about enhancing the introduction of a fellow connection. You might write the following in your note to the person you’re trying to connect with.

Sue

I noticed that you are an active networker based on the fact you have xxx connections and that we are both software professionals when I came across your profile.

I was wondering if you would like to connect.

By the way I found this great resource on LinkedIn networking …. [Link]

Thanks
Flyn

You basically use the same format I discuss in the article above but then throw in the value with the link as a gift. Even if the person has no interest in the link the fact that you tried to help them will aid you in getting this person to engage.

I use this and similar techniques all the time even in directly approaching people to connect and I have never had any problems. I would warn you to be very careful – it is possible to get IDKd if you use the LinkedIn invitation to execute this.

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