TJ Walker tells college students to send 10 connection requests daily, expecting a 60-80% acceptance rate. Then contribute twice a week by sharing industry content with your own take, and pin your best posts to your profile.
Questions this video answers
About 10 people a day.
About 50 people a week.
About 6–8 out of 10 (roughly 60–80%).
About twice a week.
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And what I say to them is this, as a college student, if you reach out to 10 people a day, 50 people a week with a connection request, reach out to an alumni, reach out to somebody who's in the industry that you're majoring in, and simply connect with them, I would expect 6, 7, 8 out of 10 will accept your connection request. Because we've all been students, we all appreciate what it's like to be a student, and we all want to help students. And if I can help a student with something as simple as, yeah, sure, I'll connect. Really not a big ask. They'll do it. And then when you have, and I apologize, I don't mean to sound like I'm or look like I'm multitasking away from you. I just wanted to pull up your LinkedIn page and I wondered if you could sort of walk us through what you do and best practices you try to reflect and that you recommend to your students and to your clients as well. Sure, I'll just, I'll just pull that up and while we're talking about this, if that's okay. Absolutely. And okay. All right, here we are. So I'll go ahead and. Right here. There we are. And there. And there we are. Great. There we are. We don't have to be too meta watching ourselves. Right? Right. So once you've had these connections, simply be generous with your network. And what do I mean by that? Add to the conversations taking place place in your industry. You can share content. Do that twice a week. Find something relevant to your industry and post it. But don't just post the link. Post something relevant to your audience. Although I don't like calling it an audience, I like calling it a network. And tell me maybe why I should read that article too, or maybe why I should skip that article or give me your insights. What did you learn from it? Why should I take the time to read it as you do this regularly? As you share valuable things with your network, simply curating is something that they will value, something that they will start to recognize you for. Oh, this is somebody who's plugged into this industry. Then start sharing your own thoughts about this industry. Don't hesitate to put yourself out there. You have thoughts, you have an opinion, you're learning things. Is this your most recent post here? This is one of the articles that I've pinned and I've got a few articles that I've written that I've pinned to the top of my profile simply because I want to make sure to draw attention to them, including that I want you to fail, that we were talking about in terms of content that I'm posting a lot of these time these days. The content that I'm posting is like you were talking about video content, the weekly shows and so on. But yeah, I will post written content as well.
