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I’m on LinkedIn every day, how about you?\u00a0 Some days it’s a few minutes and other days I could spend\u00a0a few hours.\u00a0For me prospecting is not about how many phone calls\u00a0I make in a day to people who don’t want to talk to me, prospecting\u00a0with LinkedIn has turned me into more of a detective than a salesperson.<\/p>\n
I have\u00a0a dual profile, one for the Print4Pay Hotel where I’m listed as the CEO and the other for Stratix Systems, the dealership\u00a0where I work.\u00a0Every day I receive requests to connect and most of them are for the Print4Pay Hotel. In the last few months I’ve noticed a drastic increase in the amount of people who want to connect with me.<\/p>\n
For awhile I was trying to figure out how they found me; could it be all of my connections (now more than 1,800)? Could it be from the groups I belong to? Could it be from all of the posting I do?\u00a0 Nevertheless, they found me and wanted to connect.<\/p>\n
I would say that 90 percent of those that wanted to connect had no clue as to what I do with the Print4Pay Hotel nor did they take the time to research what I do.\u00a0Much of the connection activity\u00a0was from Far East toner suppliers looking for me to buy generic toner. Yet, I don’t sell generic toner or any toner!\u00a0 Thus, for those who wanted to connect, I selected the “I don’t know them” tab, and marked them as spam. You get t0o many “I don’t knows” and “spam” and you’re pretty much a goner with LinkedIn.<\/p>\n
Think about it, are you prospecting on LinkedIn like this?\u00a0 If so, you’ll soon be booted or wondering why you are not getting any connections.\u00a0It’s pretty cool that I can also look at LinkedIn from the eyes of someone who owns a company right?<\/p>\n
Thus, if you want to connect with me, spend a little time figuring out what I do to make a living with the Print4Pay Hotel.\u00a0Send me a custom invitation that maybe states that you liked a certain blog post or a press release and would like to know more about what I do. Maybe, even tell me that you’re currently doing business with someone that I do business with.\u00a0If stated this way I will probably connect with you,\u00a0and when you send me a follow up e-mail, I will most likely reply.<\/p>\n
Take your time, do your research, and make sure your profile is awesome because as you were checking me out, I’m checking you out too.<\/p>\n
Good selling!<\/p>\n
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I’m on LinkedIn every day, how about you?\u00a0 Some days it’s a few minutes and other days I could spend\u00a0a few hours.\u00a0For me prospecting is not about how many phone calls\u00a0I make in a day to people who don’t want to talk to me, prospecting\u00a0with LinkedIn has turned me into more of a detective than a salesperson. I have\u00a0a dual profile, one for the Print4Pay Hotel where I’m listed as the CEO and the other for Stratix Systems, the dealership\u00a0where I work.\u00a0Every day I receive requests to connect and most of them are for the Print4Pay Hotel. In the last few months I’ve noticed a drastic increase in the amount of people who want to connect with me. For awhile I was trying to figure out how they found me; could it be all of my connections (now more than 1,800)? Could it be from the groups I belong to? Could it be from all of the posting I do?\u00a0 Nevertheless, they found me and wanted to connect. I would say that 90 percent of those that wanted to connect had no clue as to what I do with the Print4Pay Hotel nor did they take the time to research what I do.\u00a0Much of the connection activity\u00a0was from Far East toner suppliers looking for me to buy generic toner. Yet, I don’t sell generic toner or any toner!\u00a0 Thus, for those who wanted to connect, I selected the “I don’t know them” tab, and marked them as spam. You get t0o many “I don’t knows” and “spam” and you’re pretty much a goner with LinkedIn. Think about it, are you prospecting on LinkedIn like this?\u00a0 If so, you’ll soon be booted or wondering why you are not getting any connections.\u00a0It’s pretty cool that I can also look at LinkedIn from the eyes of someone who owns a company right? Thus, if you want to connect with me, spend a little time figuring out what I do to make a living with the Print4Pay Hotel.\u00a0Send me a custom invitation that maybe states that you liked a certain blog post or a press release and would like to know more about what I do. Maybe, even tell me that you’re currently doing business with someone that I do business with.\u00a0If stated this way I will probably connect with you,\u00a0and when you send me a follow up e-mail, I will most likely reply. Take your time, do your research, and make sure your profile is awesome because as you were checking me out, I’m checking you out too. Good selling! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[87,1638],"tags":[106,151,229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13096"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13172,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13096\/revisions\/13172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}