How to contact someone on LinkedIn

How do you contact someone you admire on LinkedIn?

Okay, say you’ve been stalking someone's LinkedIn profile and you really love what their doing, or maybe its an industry leader that you’ve heard of, how do you get in touch?

 

In this blog post I’ll be sharing my technique for getting in touch, and having meaningful conversations with people you admire. For the purpose of this blog, we’ll assume that I want to contact a CEO of a medium sized company, who has a LinkedIn following of 50,000.

 

 

Step 1: Engage with their content.

There's 2 main ways that I like to engage with people content.

#1: Comment on their posts. If someone posts something insightful then comment your opinion on this. While this example person does have 50,000 LinkedIn followers, only around 100 will comment. Only 10 of that 100 will comment consistently. If you comment on all of their posts, I can almost guarantee that by the time it comes to messaging them, they’ll at least recognise your name.

#2: Post about them! This doesn’t always work as well, but… if you attend the persons webinar, buy their course, or something similar, then take a few notes and share your notes in a post, tagging the person, thanking them for this valuable information.

 

Step 2: Be consistent!

I’m repeating myself because this is the most important part! If you are consistent in engaging with this person then you dramatically increase your chances of success. Stick at it!

 

Step 3: The message.

Here’s an example message which you can steal.

This is a format I have been using for about a year now when connecting with someone. It has worked wonders for me. 9 times out of 10 I’ll get a brilliant response from the individual I’m contacting. Feel free to alter the message to suit yourself. The 2 most important things when it comes to the message is: being genuinely interest – ask a question which you actually want to know the answer to-, and sending the message! It’s important not to overthink this too much, it can be scary the first time you send a message, but once you’ve done it a few times, it will get easier.

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