LinkedIn Relationships: A Communication Secret

What many people don’t know is that the simple act of communicating builds affinity between people.

If you want better relationships with your connections and thus more opportunities, all you have to do is communicate more frequently. You can do this by posting questions or answering the questions of others. You can also do it by paying attention to what’s going on in the world that is interesting and forwarding those things of value to your connections who would potentially benefit.

In addition, and it’s my favorite, you can simply send your connection a message asking how you can help, or if they’d like to chat and investigate how you can help each other.

Whenever you increase the amount of communication that takes place you also increase the amount of affinity between you and that other person.

This actually reveals another secret of LinkedIn. By making yourself visible in valuable ways (great questions, answers, content, or communications) you develop in others an affinity for you.

Whether people are connected to or not seeing your posts, receiving your communications, and just reading more about you will develop in them an affinity for you. In the future there may be some point where your paths cross. At that time you may greatly benefit from the affinity you have built up without ever knowing it existed.

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