Madeline Mann shares five LinkedIn invitation templates: Compliment, Continue the Conversation, Relate, Mutual Connections, and True Helper. One example message got an enthusiastic response. Tips cover personalizing invites and using LinkedIn's desktop and mobile features to build real connections.
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Hey everyone, this is self made Millennial. I'm Madeline Mann. In this video you'll learn how to connect on LinkedIn with perfect strangers with these five personal message samples that will dramatically increase the likelihood that they will connect with you. I was named a Top 50 person to follow on LinkedIn and am the creator of LinkedIn for Thought Leaders course which can help you insanely increase your visibility to attract all kinds of opportunities to job opportunities, speaking engagements, clients. So subscribe to this channel and hit the bell to get hot tips. Every Thursday. Using this way of connecting on LinkedIn gets massive results such as this client of mine who got access to someone at her dream company because of my help with this template. Or the Liron Segev, the techie guy who has a fantastic job YouTube channel responded to my connection request with the response best message ever. Stick around to the end of this video because I'll show you the message I sent to him in order to get that enthusiastic response. Okay, so here's what not to do. Looking through my connection requests, here's one that says came across your profile on LinkedIn. Seems like I have several mutual connections. Would love to connect. I mean it just that could be to anyone. Thank you. Next. Here's another one would love to connect and network. Great profile by the way. We can do better than this folks. Sorry, I'm just allergic to being generic. Whatever you do, do not be generic. It feels really spammy and the person has no context as to why you A stranger wants to connect. Know that on your laptop LinkedIn asks you if you want to send a personalized connection message before you connect. And I would say pretty much always say yes, but on mobile it won't. You just hit connect and it just automatically sends it without asking. So what you have to do is click the side button and select Personalize Invite. Here are five ways to write your connection message that will get people to connect. Number one, the compliment. Notice something about their profile or content that you like. Smart such as I'm a big fan of your posts. I really love your actionable advice on how to be productive at home. Notice I specifically said what I liked. Now saying something like nice profile is generic. Saying I enjoyed reading your summary about how you became passionate about art is specific. Number two continue the conversation. You must be commenting and posting on LinkedIn if you want to get more opportunities on the platform. LinkedIn pushes you higher in searches, the more of an active member you are. And commenting and posting is the best way to build relationships and get people to Visit your profile I have a step by step strategy that turns LinkedIn activity to LinkedIn opportunity. It's called LinkedIn for Thought Leaders. I will link information about that course in the description. So add people you've been commenting with on LinkedIn such as I enjoyed commenting with you about design thinking. I have a good article to send you. Since they are already familiar with you, this is the best time to add them. Number three Relate. Find something about them that you can relate to. Such as I saw you took an unconventional path to to get to product management and you went to Syracuse. Me too. I would love to connect. So identify ways that you are similar Places you've lived, schools you've attended, volunteering, anything. Number four Mutual connections. This one can be a little tricky since there's so many people that are connected to each other that they don't actually know each other. But if you think there's a decent chance that they know your mutual connection, you you can say something like I can see you're connected to Maureen McCann and quite a few of my other favorite people. Then I saw your profile and loved your story about how you found your career. Let's connect now. I added the second reason for connecting there just in case they didn't actually know that person. Number five True Helper. If you want to actually help them, such as give them a speaking engagement, offer them a job interview, then put it in your message such as I saw your post about wanting to hire an executive assistant. I know someone who I could refer who's a good fit. So find ways to add value. This is one of my absolute favorite things to do. So what did I write to be told that it was the best message ever? I will show you, but first I want to offer you a free LinkedIn profile makeover checklist. This is what I use at least every six months to make sure my profile is in tip top shape. This is your billboard to the world, so make your LinkedIn profile count. Okay, I'll link that free download in the description. So here is my message to Liron Segev. I love your YouTube channel. I'm often frustrated with tech and you make it simple and have a fun personality. Compliments will get you so far in this world. And I also was not kidding. His channel is fun fan frickin tastic. He makes tech simple and so I will link his channel in the description for all of you to enjoy. And the cool thing is after this message exchange we became friend, exchanged numbers and we'll even meet up at a conference this is how you build a network people. The next video for you to watch is how to post on LinkedIn. I gave you the super down down low of exactly how to do it to get high engagement like this video and subscribe to this channel. Thanks so much everyone. WiFi high five.
