In this 7‑minute LinkedIn Live session, LinkedIn strategist Joe Apfelbaum greets a live audience, showcases his own LinkedIn introduction post, and rapidly walks through a list of 52 actionable tactics for growing presence, engagement, and revenue on LinkedIn. He invites viewers to comment their location, engages with a few live chat participants, and explains that the full list can be emailed to anyone who requests it. The strategies span profile optimization, content formats, outreach methods, community‑building tricks, and platform‑specific features such as polls, QR codes, newsletters, follower emails, voice pronunciation, WhatsApp‑linked banners, birthday group DMs, recent‑connection messages, advertising‑comment posts, company‑page commenting, top‑voice badge usage, job‑post tactics, and LinkedIn mentioning. Throughout, Joe’s tone is conversational and enthusiastic, positioning the tactics as a “method to the madness” for anyone looking to leverage LinkedIn for business growth.
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Welcome to another episode of Joe Apfelbaum on LinkedIn Live. I'm so excited that you're here today, and the reason why I'm excited is because I have 52 strategies to share with you here on LinkedIn Live. As you know, I've been training people on how to leverage LinkedIn, and as I'm training people, I'm always coming up with new ideas to help people succeed on LinkedIn. Now I know many of you are watching me live right now and you're thinking, what could these possibly— what these strategies, what could they be? So I'm gonna walk you through 52 strategies right now, and I'm gonna name them all. And later, if you're interested in the strategies, you'll let me know which strategy you want me to go deeper with in my next LinkedIn Live. But first of all, tell me, where in the world are you dialing in from? Go ahead. In the comments of this video right now, let me know where in the world you're dialing in from, and I'm gonna shout out your name. And also give this a little heart or a light bulb. I'd love to see you inside the like box, and I'm gonna be sharing these amazing strategies to help you take your business to the next level. So if you're watching this live, let me know that you're watching this live because I want this to be a conversation where we're live and we're actually talking to each other and you're communicating with me in the comments. So right now in the comments, let me know where in the world you're dialing in from, and we're gonna get right into the fir— the strategies. Well, the first strategy that I wanna discuss today is the strategy of introducing yourself on LinkedIn. You can introduce yourself on LinkedIn. By letting everybody know your name, your company name, and what you do. I'm actually gonna show you my introduction right now on LinkedIn. I'm gonna share my screen and I'm gonna show you my introduction right now. So I'm gonna click on my window and I'm going to pull up the introduction that I created of myself on LinkedIn. so that I can help you understand what it looks like to make an introduction. And let me know, have you created an introduction on LinkedIn? So hopefully you can see my introduction right now. I'm gonna go down to my posts and you're gonna see this post right over here. This is my introduction post. It says, you may have seen me around on LinkedIn, but I don't think I recently introduced myself properly. So allow me to introduce myself. My name is Joe Apfelbaum. Click on my icon to hear me. I'm the CEO and founder of Ajax Union, a B2B digital marketing agency that serves companies that are $5 million to $500 million annual revenue with smart marketing strategies that get an ROI. Quick background, I taught myself how to build websites and started creating them for people. Okay, do you see the whole background over here? So guys, go check this out and read it later and create your own. What I like to do is I like to use artificial intelligence to reply to all the people that have been leaving comments on my posts and build real relationships with those people. This is what I do on LinkedIn Live. Okay, let's go through the 52 strategies really quickly. And if you're watching this live, let me know where in the world you're dialing in from. I'm always curious to see who's watching my LinkedIn Lives. It looks like we have quite a few messages here from people. So let's quickly take a look at the messages. We'll look at it together real quick, and then we'll review the 52 LinkedIn strategies. And later, if you want to see them all, just leave a comment letting me know that you want the 52 strategies and I will email you those 52 strategies. Okay, it looks like Greg is learning so much in the bootcamp. Lydia's from Delray, Florida. Leah is from Las Vegas. And Deonna said, hey, from Charlotte, North Carolina. Guys, let me know what you do for a living inside the comments. What are you guys up to? Let me know who you help. Let me know how you help them. Would love to see you in the comments. In the meantime, I'm going to review these 52 strategies right now. Number 1, LinkedIn polls. Make sure that you're surveying your audience. Number 2, reply to inbound InMails. When you get people spamming you, check to see if they have a real account and then build a relationship with them and offer them your services. Featured networking one sheet. If you don't have a networking one sheet, go check out mine on my profile. I featured it on the top of my profile. QR strategy. I have this profile QR strategy that is really next level where you show your QR code to people when you're connecting with them and building relationships with them. It's just an essential Calendly booking link. Do you know how to find people's Calendly links quickly? Imagine if you can find 317 people that you're currently connected to with a click of a button and finding their Calendly link. Connections dashboard strategy. How do you create a connections dashboard out of all your connections on LinkedIn? LinkedIn Live strategy. How do you use LinkedIn Live to help you be able to get more conversations with your target market? LinkedIn newsletter strategy. How do you find out who is subscribed to your LinkedIn newsletter and what is a LinkedIn newsletter and how does it work? LinkedIn follower email strategy. How do you send emails to people that are following you on LinkedIn but haven't connected with you? Extended LinkedIn summary strategy. What do you do to create a LinkedIn summary that's extended? Um, voice pronunciation strategy. How do you use voice pronunciation on LinkedIn on your profile? How do you get that little icon next to your name when, when you click on it, people hear your voice? Background banner strategy to a WhatsApp group. How do you create a WhatsApp group and get people on LinkedIn to join a WhatsApp group from your background banner? Birthday group DM strategy. How do you create a group of people on LinkedIn in a group message that are all sharing the same birthdays? And what do you do with that recent connection DM strategy? What is the best message to send people that recently connected with you to make them want to get on a phone call with you and learn about you? Advertising commenting post strategy. There's a particular type of post that will get people to want to advertise under your posts. And if you learn how to use that, you're going to get hundreds of leads. Message with company page strategy. How do you make sure that you leave comments using your company page? How do you go about doing that? And go ahead and look through all these, like for example, top voice badge strategy and job post strategy. And LinkedIn mentioning posting strategy. There's so many here that you can go through. So when you get a chance, make sure that you go through these. I posted this on my profile. So go check out my profile for the 52 LinkedIn strategies that we teach in our LinkedIn training program. I can't cover them all because I'm in the middle of teaching my LinkedIn Accelerator training group. But what I want to let you know is that I'm here for you. If you want to learn how to leverage LinkedIn, realize that there's a method to the madness. And in this short 7-minute video, I shared some of the 52 strategies. If you want to see the rest of them, leave a comment below and I'll share the entire file with you. Thank you for watching this, and I'll see you on the next LinkedIn Live.
