LinkedIn Referrals and Engagement

BenStarkey

Keen for some discussion here on reaching out to new connections on social especially LinkedIn.
I’ll start with my number 1 most important tip.
Number one Tip -
Treat LinkedIn like a virtual conference morning tea. you wouldn’t walk up to someone at a conference morning tea, hand them your business card and walk away without saying anything. LinkedIn is no different, it’s a good habit to get in to, when you are connecting with someone always write them a note explaining why you would like to connect. An example might be “Hi Ben, I noticed you’re a Mentor at Moonshoot, I’d like to connect here on LinkedIn and arrange a time to introduce my startup?”… assuming the new connection says yes, you can then go from there.

It doesn’t need to be lengthy… but it is polite and more endearing. And, you will stand out form the myriad of people that send blank connection requests.

Anyone else got any thoughts or tips on effective engagement through LinkedIn or other social platforms. @Troy

Troy

Great thread topic!

I learned a lot from @bigyahu when I first tried to connect with him a couple of years ago.

Here’s something I wrote about that a little while back about how I use LinkedIn now. The short end is, I generally don’t accept requests from people that don’t add a message - unless it’s someone I obviously know very well and we’re somehow not already connected.

Jordan

Troy who is bigyahu?? We really need all Nexus users to use identifiable names.

Troy

Jordan It’s Alan Jones. haha Yes, I agree re. names. I’m slowly encouraging this, but it’s hard not to come across as a grouch!

Carl

I’ve learned the best way to reach out on LinkedIn is to make it personal. Research the people you’re speaking with and try to find ways to connect with them on a meaningful level based on what they’ve done or are interested in. Referencing articles they might have posted recently or comments they might have made on a post or great shorthands for sparking a conversation.

Jordan

Carl agree and consider going the extra step and actually engaging in a conversation them via a post where they have shown interest. Remember, to quote the marketing guru James Tuckerman about building B2B leads, “Your first goal when using any social media platform is to get your prospects, followers and connections OFF social media” to your own web site or platform. If B2B lead generation is important to you check out James’ free report for some easy to implement ideas.
https://b2bdash.io/blog/24-lead-geb-tactics-for-b2b/

Troy

I need to work on a better way of attracting people to my own platform.

So far my strategy is:

Meet incredible people
Convince them to invest money in the Moonshot fund
Force them to use the platform to mentor and coach great startups

It shouldn’t, but somehow, this is working. 😁😂

Jordan

Troy I wanted to react but, when I hover over the react icon the options appear on the opposite side of the screen and I can’t see how to select them!?!

So, here is the reaction 🤣 🤦‍♂️🥳

Whatever works is ultimately the right answer!

Troy

Jordan It’s on my list of things I need to fix. It’s caused an annoying bug I haven’t been able to locate yet.

Temporary solution: If you’re moderately fast-moving your cursor over to them after you click on the react icon, it will usually appear again for you to select one.

Jordan

Troy Aha!!! Speed works!! 😄 Not really a surprise for space. So, don’t waste too much time hunting down the bug, let’s make it a feature!! If you are on the in with Moonshot, crossing orbits from click to click should be a breeze. 🤣