In this YouTube tutorial, Joe Apfelbaum walks viewers through a systematic approach to building and nurturing professional relationships on LinkedIn using a library of 44 ready‑made outreach templates. He categorises contacts (in‑person meetings, VIP connections, selfie buddies, long‑term connections, community members, webinar attendees, newsletter subscribers, etc.) and shows how to filter engaged users, locate specific profiles, and send timely, personalized thank‑you, holiday, or birthday messages. Joe demonstrates the workflow live—searching for engaged users, pulling up profiles, and sending a Thanksgiving note that receives a reply within an hour. He also outlines how to target community groups (EO, Speakeasy Mastermind, AI Business Development Circle, etc.) and event registrants, and he plugs Evvy AI as an AI‑powered sidekick for faster networking. Interspersed throughout are playful rap‑style interjections from a second speaker that reinforce the energetic, promotional tone. The overall message is that purposeful, template‑driven outreach can turn LinkedIn connections into meaningful, ongoing relationships.
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That's a very powerful thing to do, to engage with people in such a meaningful, powerful way. So I highly recommend that you grab these templates. In-person meetings, special VIP connections, selfie buddies, people that you took photos with. So think about this for just a second. I have 44 different reasons to reach out to different people this week. And by the way, this could last for the whole year because you can keep being grateful for people. You can just take out the word Happy Thanksgiving and you could just say, I'm just grateful we connected this year. Wishing you a wonderful holiday. I mean, you could use this for the whole year. But check this out. I have one for general connections that you connected with this year. People that connected, people that engaged with your content. So for example, if I go to my engagement, my engaged users over here, I could find all the people that engage with me like Darren Cherry. I could pull up his profile and I could send him a thank you message, or I could find Rick, for example. Rick engages with me all the time. Let's see where Rick is here. I thought I saw him here. Here he is. This is Rick's profile and I want to send him a message like, for example, Happy Thanksgiving. I wanted to take a moment to wish you thank you for engaging with my content. And look, he replied right away. You see, within an hour. Within 59 minutes, he replied nicely. So that's a very powerful thing to do, to engage with people in such a meaningful, powerful way. So I highly recommend that you grab these templates. In-person meetings, special VIP connections, selfie buddies, people that you took photos with, introduction makers, podcast hosts, people that you've been connected with for 10+ years. Think about that for a moment. People that you've connected with for 10+ years. Happy Thanksgiving. Can't believe we've been connected for over 10 years.
Wow.
Community and groups. Let's say I'm part of EO. I can message all my EO members. EANYC, school communities, active community posters, people that are posting in our community, people that are friends with me on Facebook, people that are going to the marketers cruise, people that are in the JV circle, the Speakeasy Mastermind. I think it's Speakeasy like that. Multiple community connections, community leaders, new community members. Ajax Union clients, business development, AI business development circle clients. I'm going over here, www.evergreen.com/aicircle. Um, oh, Sora 2 bootcamp. Let's just see if this works. I think it's Sora 2, not Sora 3. Yeah, let me change this. Webinar attendees, class registrants. By the way, if you missed the webinar yesterday, we have the replay over here at vaei.com/webinar-replay. Newsletter subscribers. You can see people who reached out for help, text message connections, recommendation leavers, people who left me recommendations. So I'll show you how I do this right now. I copy this, I go to my profile. By the way, if you guys are getting value, let me know you're getting value.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Lingin' daddy on the algorithms there. Turn the profile pic into a billionaire's lair. DMs slicker than oil spills, they slide. 44 templates, watch the hustle collide. Grateful, yeah, I'm counting every blessing. Value's my currency, keep the legs compressing. They say, Joe, you're the king on the feed. I just laugh. Get more, plant the seed.
Ding!
LinkedIn daddy call me the connect king.
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The finesse make the inbox sing.
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Millions on the board, gratitude's my ring. Giving's the flex, it's a lifelong thing. MBA got me sharper than a scalpel. Got a system on the grind, never running out of sample. Postgame lethal.
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Captions on fire.
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Dent drip heavy, never tired, just inspired. I'm out here with a purpose, it's a marathon, not a sprint.
Hey!
My template's so clean, they print money like mint. Grateful for the hustle, grateful for the climb. I'm LinkedIn Daddy, turning network to a dime.
Here's another one for people who wished me happy birthday, you know, because you get hundreds of people to wish you happy birthday, so you can go back to all the people that wish you happy birthday. So I can go like this. I can go to linkedin.com/messaging, and then you can search for the word birthday. So I'm gonna go here, uh, um, and I can search for birthday in here. I can find all the people that wish me happy birthday. You see that? Who is this person? Oh, she's in United Kingdom. And that is powerful. What does Shalom say? Ooh, Shalom sent me a message all the way from Israel. Thanks for the connection. Okay, I just accepted the connection with Shalom. Let's see what he's up to. Oh, he posted 6 days ago. Looks like he's part of this company over here. Corporate wellness consultant. Tel Aviv. Skills. Recommendations. Last time was May. Want to make networking easier and more effective? Try Evvy AI, your AI-powered sidekick that helps you connect, Engage, and grow your network faster than ever. Click the link and start building smarter relationships today.
