The Real Value of the LinkedIn Question and Answer Forum
This article is taken straight out of my Power Networking Profit System for LinkedIn course from the chapter on answering questions. The chapter continues from here to teach the reader how to approach this powerful forum. If you have any doubt that you should be participating in the forum this should change your mind.
LinkedIn’s powerful Question and Answer forum has been my primary weapon in building a strong and powerful network that will help me when I need it. It has also brought me a good deal unsolicited businesses.
The question and answer forum helps you do six important things.
- Allows you to help others and provide value
- Creates reciprocity in your network
- Helps in establishing yourself as an expert
- Gives you massive visibility on LinkedIn
- Will help you develop relationships and get connected
- Allows you to get connected to people that aren’t in your network
Allows you to help others and provide value
The Question and Answer forum is the easiest and simplest way to provide value to others. It contains thousands of questions that people have asked many of which are business related.
By answering questions with quality information you can provide real value to others on LinkedIn.
Creates reciprocity in your network
Answering the questions of those in your network actually creates a bit of reciprocity in your network. Reciprocity is basically a feeling of owing or a desire to give back.
Anything you do that creates reciprocity in your network is good and it builds up as you do more and more. This is the juice that will allow you to get things done in the future as your connections will be willing to help you.
Helps in establishing yourself as an expert
Another side benefit of the forum is that it helps you to establish your expertise. In my course I show you all the tactics of answering questions an how to improve the perception others have of you via your answers.
Gives you massive visibility on LinkedIn
There are somewhere around 37 million users as I write this sentence and this is growing at a phenomenal rate, something like 1.3 million per month. When you participate actively in the Question and Answer forum you get massive visibility to the rest of a very large LinkedIn population.
Will help you develop relationships and get connected
Needless to say the best way to connect with people is in a natural conversation. The Question and Answer forum allows you to do this all day long.
When you answer someone question, or they answer yours, it is so easy to start up a conversation and or just simply invite them to connect.
Allows you to get connected to people that aren’t in your network
Because you can engage anyone’s question, you now have easy access to people who are not in your network. In fact, once you know what you’re doing you can even use closed questions to help you engage others.
All of these things add up to the fact that the Question and Answer forum is one of the most powerful networking tools anywhere. Once you learn the correct strategies and tactics for using the Q&A forum you can do wonders with your efforts.
From Flyn
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