Lesser Known LinkedIn Tricks to Grow Your Professional Network

What’s so special about LinkedIn? Is it just a regular social network, or does it have some secret abilities? Since its inception in 2003, the platform has increased its user count with flying colors. Not only can one seek a job at the stage, but one can also give a solid boost to one’s business. When you share your vacation pics on your Instagram or Facebook, you actually share your personal life experiences with friends and family. LinkedIn, thankfully, isn’t a place for personal celebrations like such. It is, in fact, a professional platform that lets you share your professional accomplishments, past job experiences, learnings, business details, business values and mottos, and a lot more. The platform gives both the job seekers and job providers a chance to connect with the ideal people they want to work with. The platform attempts to make a layman a professional. Millions of users will swim to your business once you register your business at the platform and use some of its exceptional features. Its business model is actually the magnetic pull for 660+ million users. Just like all good things have undiscovered secrets, the professional network has some. Discover these Unknown Facts and Features of the platform.

Endorse, Endorse, Endorse

Wonder how some have superb connections over LinkedIn while others stay stagnant. Not everyone gets an impressive 500+ connections on their plate. So, what is the real secret? While some do get a chance to connect with people regularly, others do the hard work. The easiest and perhaps the most effective way of multiplying your connections is to endorse them. This way would pump blood in your stagnant numbers. And who knows, you would land in the creamy line of 500+ connections in no time. 

Open Networkers Help You Connect

It won’t be very tough to increase your connections at the initial stages. You will make connections with all your working friends and colleagues, and things will appear like a cakewalk. When you reach a certain point, and no name comes in your mind now, that’s when things get bitter. People get disappointed and stop participating enough. Though, very few know that LinkedIn never lacks solutions.

Open Networkers on LinkedIn may help you in this case. These Networkers accept your invitations in no time. Leading International Open Network (LION) and Open Networkers Alliance (ONA) ar3 some of such networks you can consider.

Invite Without EMails

Sometimes, you would want to connect to a professional, but you won’t be having any access to their email ids. Guess the correct email id and send an Invitation. It's that obvious!

LinkedIn Groups Matter

It becomes challenging to take out gold from ore. But once you look in the right direction, things become simpler. Add groups to your profile for the spectrum you are looking for. If you are looking for keen IT professionals for your company, then add a group of such people wherein they would discuss and display their past work samples. In such a way, you will get a direction for your search.

Target At The Target Group

In the life of every entrepreneur comes a time when she/ he likes to try a new business idea on the ideal people. These people are the ones who are directly connected to the idea. Their lives will get influenced once the idea gets executed. After the exciting process of idea generation and execution, it feels tempting to try the concept on the target people. Well, LinkedIn lets you do that. Share your ideas or proposals in the groups that will be directly affected by the idea. The idea must revolve around their lives; only then will it be called a target group. The chances are that these groups will provide one with detailed insights and feedback for the proposal.

Show Your Confidence In Comments

When you are a part of a group, you won’t always get positive feedback. People may differ from you with their thinking, and they can even comment down their disagreements. In such a situation, commenting on the right thing is the magical tip. Through this, you not only showcase your expertise and knowledge supported by valuable arguments, but you also display confidence in your opinion. This secret helps you go a long way in any professional field.

I’m Marco Nixon. I am a specialist in information security and digital forensics with over 5+ years of experience. Expert with a wide variety of security, networking, and operating system software.  I’m interested to write about Cybersecurity,  malware, the internet, and new media. He writes for office security products at office.com/setup.