In this tutorial, Joe Apfelbaum walks through a practical workflow for researching and engaging with high‑profile LinkedIn influencers using the Evy AI platform. He starts by creating a list of influencer URLs (e.g., Bill Gates, Richard Branson) and feeds them into the Bulk Link Opener, configuring a timed interval (30 seconds) to automatically open each profile while tracking successes and failures. He then saves the process as a reusable template, shares it with commenters, and shows how to quickly distribute the template via LinkedIn messages. Apfelbaum demonstrates the Influencer Common Persona, which generates context‑aware comments and replies tailored to each influencer’s style, citing thought‑leaders like Simon Sinek and Tony Robbins. He also illustrates how to tag Evy AI, promote an upcoming live webinar, and use the side‑panel to switch between influencer‑comment and job‑friendly personas. Throughout, he emphasizes automation, personalization, and the ability to export or improve the Bulk Link Opener via AI suggestions, positioning Evy AI as an AI‑powered sidekick for faster network growth.
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If I have a list of influencers that I want to just kind of review their stuff, I want to open them all. And now with the Bulk Link Opener, you'll have a much easier time to do things like this. Now I do have a special persona called the Influencer Common Persona. So if you go in here and you use the Influencer Common Persona, it's going to talk about the— Let's find some, some engaged people. So how do we find them? So look at this. Here's a list of influencers: Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Jeff Weiner, Sadia Natala. You see all these influencers over here? This list of influencers, these people have between 35 million to 1.4 million followers. So if I want to see all of their posts, check this out. Check what I'm going to do. I'm going to go here. I'm going to use my bulk link opener. I'm just going to clear all these URLs from here. I'm going to paste this in here. I'm going to say process URLs. I'm just going to make sure it's a real URL. Okay, it's HTTPS. I did HTTP. HTTPS. Okay, I'm going to press process URLs. And do you see all these URLs are processed? Now I can select how much time. And by the way, let me know if you want this bulk link opener. Say I want it. You can select how much time between each One that's going to open. So I'm going to say, give me 30 seconds between each one. And then I'm going to say start timed opening. So now it's going to, it's going to wait 30 seconds. Look, it's going to wait 30 seconds here. You see, 1 of 30, and it's going to open up the next URL in 30 seconds. Okay, so this is going to make it really easy, and it's going to tell me which one it opened, which one it didn't. I can hit resume or pause if I want. I can go straight to the next URL if I want, or I can stop the whole thing and I can clear the whole thing. Or I can keep adding URLs here if I want. Okay, so if you want this, just say I want it and I'll send you the link. Actually, what I'm going to do is I'm going to, I'm going to create a template now. New template. I'm going to say bulk link opener. I'll save it under Evie AI, and then I'm going to say here is the bulk link opener. Make sure you give web page permissions to, to create pop-ups. The first It works. And do not open too many websites too quickly. Enjoy. Let me know what you think. Okay, so I'm gonna press Save Changes, and now I have the bulk link opener here. So if you want to see what that snippet looks like, that template looks like, it's right here. I press copy, and now anyone that wants the bulk link opener, I can easily send it to you. So how do I find the people that want it? These are people that are commenting on the post. So for example, Lucy wants it. I'm I'm just gonna send it to her. You saw how quickly I'm able to send it to her? So if anybody else wants this bulk link opener, I can easily send it to you guys. Let me go to my post. Let me go to my, to right over here. I'm gonna click on Tom Wells. I'm gonna click message, and I'm gonna send him this right here. You see that? I just sent him the bulk link opener. I go back, see who else commented. Greg, Greg commented. Here's the bulk link opener, boom. Okay, so Greg has the bulk link opener. A few of you have the bulk link opener just like that. Okay, next one in 29 seconds. You don't want to open too many posts at one time. You want to kind of take it easy, but you see all these people, 1,000 engaged people here, 144 engaged people here. So I'm going to go here and I'm going to start dropping comments on this. Do you see Nat Berman? He's dropping comments on this. Laughter is really the best medicine with a sense of humor. I'm going to go here and I'm going to say, boom. It opened up the next one, so it kind of pushed me away, but I'm going to say boom here. I just tagged him and commented, so I kind of noticed that he did that. So he goes ahead and does this every day. He has a list of people that he does, but I've been teaching people to do this for a really long time. If you guys want to see the persona, say show me the persona. But look at the way it says true friendship is often about being present, but it also involves understanding the unique needs of each person. Simon Sinek emphasizes that trust is the foundation of relationship. So I'm going to go ahead and Click on Simon Sinek's name, and then it even promotes Evy AI here. See, by leveraging AI tools like Evy AI can help you foster these connections. Okay, so it promotes Evy AI right there. Okay, Tony Robbins, of course, we see this 400 comments here, 292 reposts and 3,000 likes. These are all engaged LinkedIn users. So these are people that are actually engaged on LinkedIn. So when I comment like this, hunger is the fuel for success. Tony Robbins emphasizes the importance of knowing your why. At Evy AI, I'm gonna tag Evvy AI right here. We harness the power of AI. What's your next step? And then I can go to the people that are engaged over here and kind of get to know them a little bit more. I can click inside over here and kind of just message the guy. Now I could have, noticed you commented on Tony's profile. It was nice to see you. Okay, do you see the way we're kind of engaging and going back and forth and building that relationship? This is someone that I already know. So now I'm gonna go ahead and leave a comment on Sharif's Shakar's post just like this. And instead of using the influencer comment strategy here, I'm going to use the job-friendly strategy here. You see? So, okay, now I'm going to go ahead and insert it just like this. And by the way, if you want the side panel, just say I want the side panel. I'm going to show you the persona real quick. Check this out. I'm going to click on login to Evy AI. I'm going to click on personas. So I started using this in many different places. I started using this in many areas, but this is the influencer comment. I'm gonna copy this and I'm gonna go to our community and I'm gonna type in influencer persona. Influencer reply persona, here's a crazy idea. Act as Joe Apfelbaum, create a thoughtful reply to influencers' posts knowing the influencer will not read the post. Okay, so I already have it in here in the community. I'm gonna tag Don Davis here 'cause he wants it. Don Davis, here it is. Okay, so now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna post this again and I'm gonna say LinkedIn influencer strategy. LinkedIn influencer strategy. Here is a strategy I use to find engaged LinkedIn users. Step 1, make a list, a list of LinkedIn influencers, of LinkedIn, of influencers. I wanna say of influencers on LinkedIn that have millions of followers. Step 2. Save them into evyai.com so that you can easily check if they have posts. Step 3, you can use the bulk link— was it bulk link opener? Opener. If you want to do things, do this automatically. Step 4, use the persona and Evy AI that I Call the influencer persona. Here it is. Make it your own. Okay, so now I have this. I'm going to tag this as how I use Evvy AI. I'm going to add a little dropdown over here, and I'm going to say— I'm going to put Elmo. Why not? LinkedIn influencer strategy. And then over here, I'm going to say check the comments for— check the comments for a list of 30 influencers with over 1 million followers. Okay, I'm gonna press post. And in the comments, I'm gonna go ahead and grab those influencers. So here are the influencers. I'm gonna grab this, copy it, and then I'm gonna paste it here. Oh my God, I don't know what happened there. I'm gonna hit Control+Shift+V. Oh, look at that, okay. And I'm gonna hit comment. All right, so we have all the influencers here. You like this, guys? Was this nice? Now you can copy all these influencers and paste them into the Bulk Link Opener. So I'm gonna go here, grab the Bulk Link Opener, template, and then I'm going to go here. Here's a bulk link opener. But do you see the way I'm using a template, how fast I'm able to do this? Write OMG in the chat if you think this is cool. And by the way, at 12 o'clock we have a webinar that we're doing. We have a webinar at 12 o'clock. I'm going to make a template about our webinar. Upcoming Heavy AI live webinar. I'm just going to call it upcoming live webinar. Please join our live webinar at http://www.evi.ai/webinar where we teach LinkedIn strategies that will get you to your goal on LinkedIn. Our next live webinar, enjoy. Register for free and send it to a friend. Okay, I'm going to press save changes and now I'm going to hit Save. Oh, hang on a second. I don't know what happened over here. I'm going to uncheck this live webinar. Oh, I didn't add the tag, the Evie AI tag. Okay, save changes. So now I have the live Evie AI tag. Okay, so now I'm going to press copy. It'll copy this and then I can paste this right here. So now I'm going to be under the Prime Minister of Canada's posts. I'm promoting my webinar. Oh snap. And also under Adam Grant's post. You guys know who Adam Grant is? Purpose of negative emotions is not to cause misery. Yeah, really powerful stuff. I particularly like this stuff. This is something that makes me very, very happy. I can also leave a standard comment on this post just like this. Joe Apfelbaum influencer comment. Hit generate. Negative emotions can be blah, blah, blah. You see that? It's a really nice comment and it's completely related to what he does. So that's awesome. And this gets me in front of all these people. The 217 people and the 6,000 people just like that. You see? And it just keeps popping more and more people. Look how many people it popped already. It opened all these and it's gonna still open up 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Let's see. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 more people here. By the way, this bulk link opener is available for you right now if you want it. You just have to drop in your links and you're good to go. What I can do also is I can create a little export button to export the links. I was thinking to myself, how can I improve improve this bulk link opener. So if you have any ideas for me to improve this, I can have AI just improve it for me. So all you got to do is just let me know what you're thinking. This is the Prime Minister of India. The Prime Minister of India is going to get my Influencer Summit promotion in case the Prime Minister wants to come. 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.
