- How Many LinkedIn Connections Do I Need?<\/a><\/li>
- How Many People Should I Be Connecting With Daily?<\/a><\/li>
- Warming Up Your Account<\/a><\/li>
- Don’t Skip The Personalized Message<\/a><\/li>
- How Do You Get LinkedIn Connections?<\/a>
- Individually Prospect and Add People<\/a><\/li>
- Add People On Your Email List<\/a><\/li>
- Post More Content and Focus On Those Who Engage With You<\/a><\/li>
- Use a Specialized Tool Like Phantombuster<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li>
- Takeaways<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
How Many LinkedIn Connections Do I Need?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The short answer: as many as you need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LinkedIn places its limit on the number of connections to 30,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But, you don’t necessarily want to have 30,000 connections overnight. That would trigger LinkedIn to flag you for spam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you’re aiming to be an influencer, then you should set your sights on a higher number than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Make sure that you convert your profile button to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This will allow you to increase the number of LinkedIn connections that you’re getting, and help you cement your image as an influencer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here’s an example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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For niche applications such as B2B sales in a very tight industry, a couple of thousand isn’t so bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How Many People Should I Be Connecting With Daily?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
It’s useful to note that LinkedIn has set specific limits on how many actions you can do on the platform on any given day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Going past these number of actions could get you flagged or worse have your account restricted for a couple of days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Based on our in-house testing, we’re looking at anywhere in the ballpark of 250 actions in one day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These actions include adding connections, messages, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you were going to ask us, don’t add more than 10-20 people in one day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Going above the limit constantly may call the algorithm’s attention and get you banned on the network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Again, don’t engage in spammy behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Warming Up Your Account<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Before gearing up to start adding people, I strongly advise that you warm up your account first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This means starting by adding three to five people first, per day in the first week, then slowly taking it up a notch within the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Adding people has to feel organic. If you try moving in too fast on your goal of tens of thousands of connections, you’ll probably have to rely on a bot and that will get your account restricted on the platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But, that’s not all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another great benefit of warming up your account is that it allows LinkedIn to slowly recognize that your account’s usage has a high velocity and that you can be soon trusted <\/em>to do more with your account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This same advice holds true to people with new LinkedIn accounts, are just having their LinkedIn ban lifted, or want to mass message a lot of prospects \u2013 although we would strongly advise against doing that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don’t Skip The Personalized Message<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Do you know what’s worst than spam?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sending someone a connection that doesn’t come with a message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the professional equivalent of shaking someone’s hand and giving them a business card without even speaking with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s just uncalled for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you’re going to do that, you’d be better off with the most generic message than you can think of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But, you know how much we hate generic messages on BAMF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How Do You Get LinkedIn Connections?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Individually Prospect and Add People<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
One of the most powerful things that you can do is to individually prospect people before you connect with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This way you can put in a hyper-personalized message for each person that you’re reaching out to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, this is really time-consuming, but it is one of the most effective strategies because nothing beats a message that was written especially for one person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our tip is to do this for high-profile prospects that you’re watching out for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The messaging could be as simple as complimenting them for the work that they’ve done recently or asking them a very specific industry-related question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Add People On Your Email List<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
I’m sure that most of your email contacts are your friends already \u2013 if you used LinkedIn’s tool to add your contacts \u2013 but what about people you’ve done outreach with?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You won’t just boost the number of connections that you’ll have, but you also get to nurture leads in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Adding people that you’ve done outreach with, or those that you’ve sent lead generation emails to, allows you to continue your lead generation efforts off of email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This in turn provides you with a more casual avenue to chat with them or follow up with them down the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This aids in creating a multichannel or multidimensional campaign. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Add People On Your Email List<\/a><\/li>
- How Many People Should I Be Connecting With Daily?<\/a><\/li>
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