How to Export Your LinkedIn Connections

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Each month when we send our clients’ newsletters (and ours!) we export and sort their LinkedIn list of connections and add them to their email list. It can be laborious, but it’s worth it.

If you’re actively networking on LinkedIn and growing your list of connections, that is like going to a networking or chamber meeting online! Think about it – if you go to a networking meeting in person, you exchange business cards, don’t you? Then what do you do as a next step?

If you’re good at marketing and networking, the next step you would do, would be to add them to your CRM, your email list and/or your phone contacts for future follow up.

What many people don’t realize, is that each time you connect with another professional on LinkedIn, you are getting their “virtual” business card and an opportunity to follow up. If you’re business is not limited geographically, this gives you the huge advantage of increasing your reach through the Internet.

As mentioned above, you now have a lot of ways to maximize this new networking asset. Here are some ideas that might help:

Now that you see the value in exporting your connections, watch the video to see how you can do it. It’s less than four minutes long and it can save you from spending a lot of time hunting around your LinkedIn account to find it!

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If you choose to add your connections to your email list, be aware that if you get a lot of bounces and “unsubscribes” from your list, it could appear to be SPAM and could harm your email credibility, or reduce your ability to add future contacts. Here are some tips to avoid this:

How you decide to utilize this great networking tool is up to you. We see great success with email newsletters that help grow business for our clients. If you do it right, people will look forward to hearing from you and you will gradually become a trusted connection!

Here is the video to quickly show you how to export your LinkedIn connections. Check back on our blog to see how you can increase your LinkedIn with highly targeted connections. Enjoy!

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