Grow Your LinkedIn Network – Part 3

Grow Your LinkedIn Network - Part 3 Following on from parts one and two today we will be looking at 6 distinct ways that you can use to grow your LinkedIn network, including the following; * Past school/college and workmates. * Groups * Post Likes * Articles * Growing to a minimum of 500 connections * Commenting on other peoples post/article The essential thing to remember is that LinkedIn is a professional network and you should treat it as such.  Your network and how you grow it has the power to bring you success in your future so treat it as a way to connect with genuine people who can help you become successful and you can do the same for them as well. [00:00:01] Setting up for success, Grow Your LinkedIn network, part 3 [00:00:08] Hello ladies, Alvern here. Now that you have a profile that is decent looking. It gets really, really exciting from here because you can start inviting people to join your LinkedIn network or for some of you grow your network even more. So where do you find these people. [00:00:31] Now let's look at a list here. So, for example you have old school college work mates that you believe that add value to network or will be great go to people for any sort of questions or queries that people might have in your LinkedIn network. You can contact them. Those groups that I asked you to join in part two, for those of you who haven't yet listened to LinkedIn part one or two I would add links in the document here. [00:01:05] So those groups, remember you can join up to 50 groups and some groups like big, super big you have like a hundred thousand people in one single group. That means you can have, if all of them joined you, which I doubt, so you will probably see about a hundred of those over a 12-month period you get them to join your LinkedIn network, those are people and multiply that by 50 groups or even 10 percent of the groups with a thousand people. So, you know it all adds up bit by bit. But you are going to have to work at it and make a commitment to do it. We have things like post likes, articles, you have the ability to comment on other people's posts and articles. So, let's go through those step by step. [00:01:56] So with all school college or workmates that's fairly easy for you. You look at all of the people you worked with in the past I know it is sometimes very difficult for me. I can't remember all of the people that I worked with in all of my past companies I do remember here and there a few people live. If you go through for each company and go look at the current people working there you can probably remember one person contact them and ask them to remind you of the names of people that you worked with on the team. They may find it strange just explain to them that you're trying to remember the first and last name or just the last name or whatever it is. [00:02:33] So groups like I mentioned to him before, get involved in at least two or three conversations contribute and ask them to connect with you. I guess the first thing you need to do when it comes to the groups it is something that you progressively work at or make it a habit for example. So, set a goal for yourself and say OK I want to achieve a minimum of 100 people from this group to connect into my LinkedIn network. [00:03:05] Break it down like this, two to five connection requests per day. Or every two days or per week and you can go as fast or slow as you would like to go. But for me when I wanted to grow my LinkedIn network from less than 100 connections and I said I wanted to achieve 500 my first goal was 500. I said OK I want to achieve, make it a smart goal, make it very specific, 500 connections, make it achievable. So,