LinkedIn: Connect, Mastermind, Progress

[JJHemingway]

@Andy Black unfortunately I don’t have any insightful tips to share. Very much new to LinkedIn so Id love to connect with the fastlane community there.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-hemingway-ab66a5280

 

[Rauschmi]

Well, Here is my Linkedin:
linkedin.com/in/joshrausch

 

[Andy Black]

What are you doing this week on LinkedIn guys?



I want to post, comment, and message people - daily.

I read someone's post last week saying they spend a bit of time commenting and messaging people first to "warm up the algorithm". I don't know if that's true, but why not do it in that order.

Anyway, I checked my feed for 5 minutes, saw a carousel I liked the content and format of, replied to say thanks and add my piece, and then realised I could turn it into a post.

That seemed quite simple. There's no way I'd have sat down with a blank Google doc and come up with that story this morning.

Now I'll log off and get on with some work...



The reply to a post:



My edited post:



EDIT: I've just posted that to my Facebook page, Twitter, my email newsletter, YouTube community tab, and into the forum.

 

[Paul David]

(This isn't MY thread. It's for all of us to chat and mastermind about what's working and not on LinkedIn.)

LinkedIn is a great platform and I encourage you all to put some effort into your profile and network.

I've been on there for over a decade and I've had countless DMs with interesting people. I've help many, and many have helped me.

I thought I'd make this a chat thread where we all give tips about making the most use of the platform, and where we can post our profile so we can connect with each other.

I'm always stoked when I get a message from someone saying they're a fastlaneforum member. It's like meeting a tribe member out in the wild. So make sure you say you're a forum member when you connect with each other, and make sure you also follow MJ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjdemarco).

If you're on LinkedIn then drop your URL and any tips you might have to help others on the platform.

If you're not on the platform, then I'm curious why not.


Everyone's URLs:
I'll keep this updated.
Remember to make sure you say you're a forum member when you connect with each other!

1. https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyblackjnr
2. https://www.linkedin.com/in/rudyarodriguez/
3. https://www.linkedin.com/in/absar-a-82542028a
4. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarthak-tyagi-b341ab275
5. https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameron-dugger-law/
6. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nunovaz/
7. https://www.linkedin.com/in/chriswaldron13/
8. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikkel-linskey-dpt-2848b3b9/
9. https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxim-völk-7b76ab276
10. https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-wurtz/
11. https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-veitch-b14835218
12. https://www.linkedin.com/in/elijah-shin-b4653b144
13. https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielargueta/
14. https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenkirbyuk/
15. https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyhausmann
16. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivandjukicdev
17. https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglaschoate/
18. https://uk.linkedin.com/in/karandeepbadwal
19. https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-hemingway-ab66a5280
20. https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshrausch

PS: I do have a "Figuring Out LinkedIn" thread here that may have some nuggets amongst the rambling:

• Figuring Out LinkedIn

Yes Andy but nothing is ever going to beat when I happened to drop by a periscope live channel and it was you inside a pub.

Now that’s what I call meeting in the wild!

I miss periscope ha.

 

[Singh]

Dayum. Daily posting since 2021? Curious how you've kept that up.

LinkedIn has a scheduling feature when you write a new post you will see a clock symbol in the bottom right of the dialogue box, So I basically spend 30 mins a week mapping out my content and then respond to the comments when it goes live throughout the day.

I also recycle old content that is a few months old and repurpose old videos in a different format. The trick with LinkedIn is to engage on others content this then puts your content into their feed and it becomes reciprocal

 

[Andy Black]

@Andy Black What's your view on posting AI written content on linkedin (with some tweaks here and there)?

I wouldn't. I get enough content from chatting to people and commenting. Like this very comment could be turned into a piece of content about how to get endless amounts of authentic content.

In the DMs people mention they like my content, mentioning that it's authentic and not like other folks content.

Maybe AI can help you tidy up content, but I think you're better learning to write better and faster, and finding your own voice.

 

[Keushei]

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ash-cooke-aa1ba723b/

Here's mine, my names Ash and I'm currently building websites for business owners. Better value than you'd get with an agency

Ill give you guys a follow in the thread.

 

[Andy Black]

What's your goal this week on LinkedIn?

Mine is to get back to posting daily short videos again.

 

[Caminsky]

1) Complete Your Profile

I've looked at the profiles of everyone I've connected with so far and many are incomplete.

At the very least, fill out your photo and headline.

Those are what people see when you send a connection request, when you comment on a post, or when you post a thread.

Here's some examples from my feed today:

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They might entice people to then click through to your profile to learn more about you.





Here's all the sections on your profile:

(From Your LinkedIn Profile | LinkedIn Help)

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2) An interesting account to follow?

Could be an interesting account to follow for his info, and to see how he gets such good engagement on his posts:

Hasan Toor ✪ on LinkedIn: #jobpreparation #remotejobs #websites | 215 comments

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His bio link goes here:

Hasan Toor

Digital Creator & Software Engineer

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A nice wake-up call, Andy. I joined LinkedIn back in February when I decided I probably was not doing myself any favors by being the last holdout. I'm sure I could improve it quite a bit.

 

[RocketG]

Dropping it here. Always great to connect with more like minded individuals!
www.linkedin.com/in/elijah-shin-b4653b144

 

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[Tattman]

I've just updated the opening post with everyone's URLs. If you connect with anyone then let them know you're from the forum, and also brainstorm with each other how you can improve your profiles, posts, and comments.


Backing up though...

What's your goals on LinkedIn?

I presume it would be to build relationships and your business.

Some questions to ask yourself:

• Who do you most want to connect with?
• Do you want to connect with peers so you can learn from each other?
• Do you want to connect with people who might become clients?
• Do you want to connect with the people your ideal clients follow and engage with?
• Or maybe it's all of the above or something else?

At the moment I'm looking at it as a potential customer to help get future business off the ground

 

[Dark Water]

I've had LinkedIn twice, deleted it both times. Open to making one again but it'd have to be done with a specific goal in mind. If a person is successfully generating leads with LinkedIn, it seems like a great opportunity to post regularly. But it also seems like you could potentially build more authority and long term success if you just make the same post on a platform you own, like your own website. The social media content creation game is a competitive, never ending black hole demanding more and more for the puppet master-esque secret algorithms.

 

[Andy Black]

Great idea @Andy Black this is a link to my profile

Darren Kirby - MBA - Enesel Group | LinkedIn

An accomplished IT & Cyber Security Director experience empowering business growth through… | Learn more about Darren Kirby - MBA's work experience, education, connections & more by visiting their profile on LinkedIn

www.linkedin.com

Connection request sent.

Dayum... there's some serious folks in this forum.

 

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[ElDiablo]

Wow, it's genuinely refreshing to see people using LinkedIn in a different frame apart from the "corporate simping" for which the platform is known for.

I mean, I could conceptually understand that this platform is a powerful tool for many entrepreneurs wanting to create more connections and leads. Still, it feels way different when you get to know the people doing it from up close.

I'm aware that this is probably because most of my "connections" are people interested in their corporate careers, so they end up portraying themselves as the stereotypical LinkedIn user who is overly politically correct and is pandering to whoever is willing to give him a job.

It is an understandable action, but I can help to notice the inauthentic behavior.

No wonder there's a guy on YouTube whose channel's content is based around that premise and the monolithic perception of the corporate world.

I wonder if it's a whole different dynamic as an entrepreneur where, although you are still expected to behave professionally and have an agenda in mind, you don't have the pressure of doing everything in such a subtle way to get noticed by recruiters.

 

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[Andy Black]

Wow, it's genuinely refreshing to see people using LinkedIn in a different frame apart from the "corporate simping" for which the platform is known for.

I mean, I could conceptually understand that this platform is a powerful tool for many entrepreneurs wanting to create more connections and leads. Still, it feels way different when you get to know the people doing it from up close.

I'm aware that this is probably because most of my "connections" are people interested in their corporate careers, so they end up portraying themselves as the stereotypical LinkedIn user who is overly politically correct and is pandering to whoever is willing to give him a job.

It is an understandable action, but I can help to notice the inauthentic behavior.

No wonder there's a guy on YouTube whose channel's content is based around that premise and the monolithic perception of the corporate world.

I wonder if it's a whole different dynamic as an entrepreneur where, although you are still expected to behave professionally and have an agenda in mind, you don't have the pressure of doing everything in such a subtle way to get noticed by recruiters.

Do you still see that type of content?

I go absent from LinkedIn for months on end. When I return I often notice marked improvements.

Initially I left because my inbox was filled with spam every day by IT or SEO companies trying to sell me something.

Years later I logged in to find LinkedIn had tidied that up.

Then I got tired of the feed being full of the weird self-congratulatory posts. "I'm delighted to announce I've been nominated for blah, blah, blah."

Half a year later I've come back and my feed is full of more educational posts. Experts giving actionable tips, inspiring stories, or curated news.

These are the result of deliberate changes LinkedIn have made to the platform.

Granted, I'm seeing too many people giving advice on how to succeed on LinkedIn, but that's likely how I've trained the algorithm in the last two weeks. I'm consciously unfollowing LinkedIn Ghostwriters and Influencers, and replacing them with founders and techies (who also write well).

I don't see any posts from people with an employee mindset (not that I'm saying that's a bad mindset).

So train your feed by changing who you follow, get alerts from, what you like, what you comment on, what you Save, etc.

There's an argument that LinkedIn will be the platform with the longest longevity. People who value their career and businesses value the network they've created on there. I even got into DM with a guy who Liked the carousel I posted last week... and discovered the last time we DM'd was in 2012.

 

[ElDiablo]

Do you still see that type of content?

I go absent from LinkedIn for months on end. When I return I often notice marked improvements.

Initially I left because my inbox was filled with spam every day by IT or SEO companies trying to sell me something.

Years later I logged in to find LinkedIn had tidied that up.

Then I got tired of the feed being full of the weird self-congratulatory posts. "I'm delighted to announce I've been nominated for blah, blah, blah."

Half a year later I've come back and my feed is full of more educational posts. Experts giving actionable tips, inspiring stories, or curated news.

These are the result of deliberate changes LinkedIn have made to the platform.

Granted, I'm seeing too many people giving advice on how to succeed on LinkedIn, but that's likely how I've trained the algorithm in the last two weeks. I'm consciously unfollowing LinkedIn Ghostwriters and Influencers, and replacing them with founders and techies (who also write well).

I don't see any posts from people with an employee mindset (not that I'm saying that's a bad mindset).

So train your feed by changing who you follow, get alerts from, what you like, what you comment on, what you Save, etc.

There's an argument that LinkedIn will be the platform with the longest longevity. People who value their career and businesses value the network they've created on there. I even got into DM with a guy who Liked the carousel I posted last week... and discovered the last time we DM'd was in 2012.

Oh, so the experience was even worse hahaha

I guess they needed better monetize the platform so they needed to make a purge of all the users that were spamming and saturating the platform with low quality content.

I hope they match profits with a professional environment in mind.

I read something similar about how LinkedIn was building itself to become the ultimate social network in the sense that inherently has real value besides advertising and promotional content, because of the kind of users at an individual and institutional level.

To be honest, I was fairly passive with the platform as I always used it as the “job board with a social media touch”, and hence my feed is one giant “I’m so excited to become X at X”, “X company shared the following post”, and “I’m looking forward to start my program X at university/college/online platform X”.

Time to change that.

 

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[Andy Black]

I've a couple of calls tomorrow with people I've been DM'ing on LinkedIn. They liked my carousel last week and I replied to thank them and then wee conversations developed.

As mentioned before, I doubt they'll become clients, but this gets me back into the swing of talking to people.

I should probably record all these free calls and pull out snippets to post on LinkedIn, YouTube, etc.

I just added a new question to my Calendly booking form:

 

[Andy Black]

Thanks Andy. The reframing is indeed super helpful. Mulled it over for a couple days and tonight I'm back on board: https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglaschoate/. Have some work to do to bring this up to speed but will start connecting with you all on it.

Hi @Choate ... This week I ended up repeating this "reframe" to a few people in LinkedIn DM, and on Zoom.

Given it seemed to help a few people I thought I'd post it to LinkedIn.

Let's see how it does!

I can always delete it tomorrow if it tanks bad or if I think it's not on-topic for my account.

Link to the post on LinkedIn.

 

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[Dark Water]

When/if it works better, I can then repost to other platforms - after getting feedback from people who've read it and like it enough to engage with it.

Love this in particular. Great way to refine the message through few iterations to see what works best.

 

[Andy Black]

How're you all getting on with LinkedIn?

I've had a spate of Google Ads folks following and connecting with me. While I like chatting with peers, that wasn't my intention for LinkedIn. It looks like my content attracts peers rather than potential clients. I'll have to rethink this a bit!

 

[Absar]

@Andy Black What's your view on posting AI written content on linkedin (with some tweaks here and there)?

 

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[Singh]

I wouldn't. I get enough content from chatting to people and commenting. Like this very comment could be turned into a piece of content about how to get endless amounts of authentic content.

In the DMs people mention they like my content, mentioning that it's authentic and not like other folks content.

Maybe AI can help you tidy up content, but I think you're better learning to write better and faster, and finding your own voice.

I take a similar approach to this, write my own content and then sometimes use AI to improve it

 

[shubham___3011]

(This isn't MY thread. It's for all of us to chat and mastermind about what's working and not on LinkedIn.)

LinkedIn is a great platform and I encourage you all to put some effort into your profile and network.

I've been on there for over a decade and I've had countless DMs with interesting people. I've help many, and many have helped me.

I thought I'd make this a chat thread where we all give tips about making the most use of the platform, and where we can post our profile so we can connect with each other.

I'm always stoked when I get a message from someone saying they're a fastlaneforum member. It's like meeting a tribe member out in the wild. So make sure you say you're a forum member when you connect with each other, and make sure you also follow MJ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjdemarco).

If you're on LinkedIn then drop your URL and any tips you might have to help others on the platform.

If you're not on the platform, then I'm curious why not.


Everyone's URLs:
I'll keep this updated.
Remember to make sure you say you're a forum member when you connect with each other!

1. https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyblackjnr
2. https://www.linkedin.com/in/rudyarodriguez/
3. https://www.linkedin.com/in/absar-a-82542028a
4. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarthak-tyagi-b341ab275
5. https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameron-dugger-law/
6. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nunovaz/
7. https://www.linkedin.com/in/chriswaldron13/
8. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikkel-linskey-dpt-2848b3b9/
9. https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxim-völk-7b76ab276
10. https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-wurtz/
11. https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-veitch-b14835218
12. https://www.linkedin.com/in/elijah-shin-b4653b144
13. https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielargueta/
14. https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenkirbyuk/
15. https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyhausmann
16. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivandjukicdev
17. https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglaschoate/
18. https://uk.linkedin.com/in/karandeepbadwal
19. https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-hemingway-ab66a5280
20. https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshrausch
21. https://www.linkedin.com/in/zackery-sprague

PS: I do have a "Figuring Out LinkedIn" thread here that may have some nuggets amongst the rambling:

• Figuring Out LinkedIn

Hello everyone! Id love to connect and her is my linkedin profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/shubham-kanojiya-832b00257/

 

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[SSimz]

I recently started posting videos a subset of videos my YouTube Channel to LinkedIn (been doing it for about two weeks). What's been interesting for me is that the views, viewers and minutes from LinkedIn seem really high compared to YouTube.

 

[Andy Black]

I recently started posting videos a subset of videos my YouTube Channel to LinkedIn (been doing it for about two weeks). What's been interesting for me is that the views, viewers and minutes from LinkedIn seem really high compared to YouTube.

What's also interesting is you get aggregate stats on job titles and company size for viewers. Even better is if people Like or Comment on a video. You can check out their profile and learn more about who's engaging with your content, and you can reach out via DM. You can't do that on YouTube.

 

[ZackerySprague]

https://www.linkedin.com/in/zackery-sprague/

 

[Andy Black]

https://www.linkedin.com/me?trk=p_mwlite_feed_updates-secondary_nav

That link doesn't seem to work Zackery.

 

[ZackerySprague]

That link doesn't seem to work Zackery.

Fixed.

 

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[random_username]

Does anyone have any insight into when is the best time to post something? Or does it matter when you post something at all? My initial, completely unverified line of thinking is to post on Monday or Friday, sometimes around 9:00, so post gets read while people drink morning coffee.

 

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[Andy Black]

Does anyone have any insight into when is the best time to post something? Or does it matter when you post something at all? My initial, completely unverified line of thinking is to post on Monday or Friday, sometimes around 9:00, so post gets read while people drink morning coffee.

I suspect you're right.

I just post when I've created something.

I heard a YouTuber say the best time to post is when you've finished the video. Mind you, YouTube content lasts for years whereas LinkedIn content has a shorter lifespan.