In this short tutorial, Shaun Whynacht of Blue Cow Creative introduces the LinkedIn Reportive (now known as Rapportive) browser extension for Gmail. He walks viewers through how to install the plugin in Chrome or Firefox via reportive.ca, then demonstrates its core features: displaying a contact’s LinkedIn profile in a sidebar when an email is opened, indicating whether the user is already connected, and allowing a one‑click send of a LinkedIn connection invitation directly from Gmail. Shaun highlights the value of the tool for small‑business owners who spend most of their day in email and need an efficient way to grow their professional network. The video ends with a call to subscribe to the channel for more similar content.
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Hey everybody, it's Shaun here with Blue Cow Creative. I'm taking a moment this morning to do this post because I came across this plugin. It was actually recommended to me in a workshop yesterday, and as a small business, we always want to connect with other like-minded small business owners. LinkedIn is a great way to do that. Presenting this plugin for Gmail called LinkedIn Reportive. Now what it does is if you load it in the browser, go to reportive.ca, you'll also see that link below this video. You'll come to this page. You're going to go click Add Reportive to Gmail, and you'll need to do this in both browsers. So make sure you're in, in Chrome or Firefox, or if you have both, you're going to have to do this for both of them. So when you do that, it's going to pop up and ask you to install. Really easy, completely free. But what it works as is, let's say we're going to flip over here to my email. I'm going to go ahead and click on a client's email. So when I click on the email here, we're going to notice on the right-hand side it's going to load that contact's LinkedIn profile. So obviously with Stacy here, we're already connected on LinkedIn and it says we're connected. So you can kind of see that information, which is great. Good, good way to do it. But the power comes into, let's say we've got a contact that we're not connected to yet on LinkedIn. So I've got one here from Anthony. And it comes up here and searches, and Anthony King, he is on LinkedIn. There is a profile here, but we're not connected. So let's say I want to connect. I click connect and I can go here and just, uh, hey Anthony, you know, I'd like to connect to your professional network on LinkedIn. Um, let's do it. I put a little name, send invite, sending the invite, and now Anthony will get an invite to connect with me on LinkedIn. Really great plugin because we spend most of our day in our email to connect with those people that are important to you and your business. So check it out, Rapportive for LinkedIn. I'm Shaun with Blue Cow Creative. We've got great videos just like this on our YouTube channel. Go ahead, I invite you right now to subscribe to our channel. You can see the link on the video.
