Modern Online Business

LinkedIn social networking business potential is great. LinkedIn has implanted secret tricks to help members from abuse. However, innocent network users must know LinkedIn "secret" tips to avoid locking up network contacting. Exposed here are the LinkedIn networking tips and tricks to speed up social business connections.

When innocently driving your car you do not want to fall victim of a blameless, harmless, guiltless traffic violation trap. In my area there is a 45 mile speed limit coming down a rapidly descending mile long steep hill. Then the pavement abruptly hits level ground, city limits, and a 25 mph speed limit all at the same time. Unless you plan well in advance, you are caught. Then without logic you are held accountable and at fault for speeding and placed in the wrong for reckless driving by the traffic cop ambush.

This is very similar to the secret ambushes encountered when joining this social networking group.

To build up a social network of your own business connections is relatively simple. After free and immediate approval, you are a LinkenIn member. Then you are taken to your own large profile sheet to fill in your credentials, present and past employment, and what you are seeking. There is a lot more information to fill in and revise that is helpful for promoting yourself and for others to see value. After all, making a plentiful amount of quality social networking business connections is the purpose of joining.

LinkedIn then gives you a great tips idea on how to build your personal business network connections quickly. Just click the button on a mail service account like Google, EarthLink, MSN, AOL, etc. that you are currently using. All the hundreds of names of people you know or who emailed you pop up, along with a positive explanation encouraging you to email them Easily select all, or by individual name those you want to bulk email a briefly worded invitation to join your network. This sounds great, and like a quick way to start.

The hidden truth is that there is an internal traffic cop putting the radar on your actions.

Most members will maximize the number of people they send. They figure that if they do not know the person, the person knows them, even if it was an advertising piece not yet read or deleted. New members of course like seeing a suggested process of speeding up connections to business people to start their network. They were never exposed to why this is a very reckless route to take. When the people receive your rubber stamped, brief message invitation, they are asked to connect with you. Three options are available, two very poorly worded.

The options to choose from are accept, I don't know you, and archive. Accept is completely understandable if they are already a member. However you have sent many invites to people who are not even aware of LinkedIn or if any consequences exist for you if they do accept. Others, especially advertisers who have bulk emailed thousands of people off a list do not personally know you. Unless they are a member educated in the rules, there is a chance they could press IDK - the dreaded "I don't know you" button while trying to get through their avalanche of emails. Members are stumped by the option of archive, a way to save but not delete the invitation.

LinkedIn exposes other potential ambushes to you when asking if you want to email the people on other accounts you have set up on Face book, Yahoo, YouTube, and others. Once you enter your educational info on your bio sheet it persistently pesters you to join your college university alumni group, and shoots out names of those attending the same years as you, that are members of LinkedIn. As with your email contacts, you can mail your other social network account members or those you went to college with.

On one aspect, are bold consistent announcements encouraging you to keep inviting people. For protection, like a traffic sign hidden behind a tree, you are told to invite people you know.

Five over, and you get a traffic violation. If for example, you mail out 500 invitations using each of the three heavily promoted methods of building your social business network, this is a very realistic consequence. 10 out of every hundred you emailed, members or not, accept your invitation. You now proudly have a quick 50 person business network of your own. Acceptance exposes the other person's email so you can send personal emails if desired. One in a hundred of the people you sent invites to, respond with "I don't know you".

The traffic system is set up to catch abusers and spammers. Without you seeing a traffic sign, it caught you. Your violation is getting 5 IDK marks. In the meanwhile, you have probably joined and were accepted by the numerous groups full of business prospects and contacts that you would anxiously like in your network. When you send invites to them, you normally do not need to know their email address, which is stored in the system. Because of your violation, you receive a personal notice from LinkedIn.

You are instructed that from now on, you must provide the email address of a person when inviting to join your business network. However, in these groups, you are blocked. How do you do not now know the email addresses? You could send out notices to members, pleading with them to send you an invite, but this is hard to do correctly. Fortunately, LinkedIn allows you to email a request back to them pledging not to abuse the rules and they will review your case. Secret: Do not hit the panic button, as your plea should get you another chance. Nevertheless, remember the secret number of five IDK's.

Here is a super secret that I am going to reveal. The numbers are eventually going to work against you, even when you invite members in a group that you joined.. Many members are new or have not yet been caught in the traffic ambush. This means there are members in groups that do not know the harm they can give you if the push the "I don't know you" button. Members that have had their invites without email rights stripped can take out their revenge on innocent members inviting them to make a connection by hitting IDK. This injustice can also zap you.

I will give you a top tip. The tip is to make your offer to connect very personal, and do not use the pre-worded version. Tell the stranger that you really like what you read about him or her in their bio. Mention that you are looking for a person like him or her to fulfill your connect request, as it would be a good fit. Very importantly request that if they do not want to accept, then to simply hit the archive button. End your email with a thank you. This method can easily be set up as a cut and paste. You will receive more accepts, and less often an IDK.

Now it is only fair I reveal another LinkedIn social networking, business connection secret. As you send out more invites, you can build up a second violation by just having another five "I don't know you" replies be recorded. Look up the correct email address to send a reply back to, as this notice does not personally mention a forgiveness plea. Make the best pledge you ever made to follow proper procedures concerning spamming and bothering people that you do not know. I cannot guarantee it, but you might have another violation on your record, and yet be able to drive for your networking goals the easy way of not knowing email addresses beforehand..

There are few LinkedIn members obtaining 100 contacts or more from people they already know. In fact, 98 of my first 100 connections were with great business contacts I never even knew of before I joined a group.