Connection Requests on LinkedIn - How to Master it

Speaker A: You send huge number of connection requests on LinkedIn but you're getting ignored a lot. So what can you do about it? And should you actually worry? Hello, my name is Siraj and I help small and medium businesses generate organic and qualified leads on LinkedIn through non salesy and non pitchy outbound messaging. So again, getting to our today's topic, how can you actually improve your acceptance rate? And before getting further, let me ask you something. Do you measure your acceptance rate? Well, if you are using LinkedIn for legion purposes and if you're outreaching to your prospect, you definitely should measure your acceptance rate in order to understand what can you improve or tweak around how you can do that. Well, it's really simple. Just use Google shit and just uh, understand how many requests you have sent and how many people have accepted that. That simple. At the end of this video, I'll tell you what's the rate that if you get below that, you should start worrying and you should stop start to modifying things because otherwise you might be in a problem. Let's get started. And point number one is don't pitch your uh, connection request message. Trust me, this is the worst thing you're gonna do. You can do actually. Well, pitching in general is not a good thing on LinkedIn, but especially in the connection request message, that's the worst thing you can do. So do not ever do that. Point number two, do not send widely spread messages. Something like, hey, I see we have uh, this many connections in common, so what? I mean, yeah, we do have connections in common, but what's in it for me, right? I don't get really why you want to connect with me. Point number three, despite the fact that you have 300 characters for uh, your connection request message, try to be as short as possible. I mean, short and precise. This is actually a good rule of thumb. Point number four, be creative. Don't sound like everybody else. Try to be as creative as you can. I mean, depending on who you are connecting with, depending who you are. Let's say you are a creative agency owner, so well, this is a good sign that maybe you should be creative here. And point number five, this is the weirdest advice I'm gonna give you right now, but trust me, this is a proven advice. If you are not sure what to write in your connection request message, just leave it blank. I know you're gonna say, what do you mean blank? Everybody's saying you should customize a connection request, but trust me, we have tested this so many times, it's not gonna really affect your acceptance rate, whether you customize it or you just leave it blank. Unless it's hyper customized or personalized, meaning you cannot send the same message or the connection request message to anybody else. That's hyper personalized. That's another topic. But if you're talking about just name customization or personalization, I mean, it doesn't really affect your acceptance rate. So now, because we're already at the end of this video, let me tell you the number that you need to be watching out. If your acceptance rate is anything below 20%, you, uh, should either slow down a bit or you should try to tweak around your messaging. Try blank, try something new. Just don't be pitchy, of course, and don't be generic. My point is, if it's 20% and lower, uh, after some time, if you're doing Legion on scale, you, you might be in a problem. So pay close attention to that number. Hope you guys enjoyed it. If you liked it, please give a thumbs up. And by the way, don't forget to subscribe to my newly created YouTube channel where I'm putting videos on a weekly basis. Uh, you guys stay well, be happy, and I'll talk to you later. Cheers.