How to Get More LinkedIn Connections
LinkedIn, when used correctly and professionally, can lead to new business connections. If you want to meet new people and make more connections on LinkedIn, then there are a few steps to making sure your profile is updated and discoverable online. Recently, I made a vide on privacy settings. Completing or updating your profile, and changing privacy settings can help you make new connections or find a new job! Some of these settings may interfere with the you must make your profile more visible There are a few data points in the privacy section of a LinkedIn profile that make it easier for other users to find you and make a connection.
LinkedIn.com is a business-oriented social network with more than 500 million users from over 200 countries. The site was acquired by Microsoft in 2017 and has slowly been making improvements to profiles and features.
Find out how to get more LinkedIn Connections. There are a few settings changes to make to make your LinkedIn profile more discoverable. It only takes a few minutes of checking into your privacy settings. Make sure your email and phone number are saved in LinkedIn. Next, make sure they can be used to discover your profile. By enabling these settings other users are able to find your profile more easily on LinkedIn. These are three simple areas too visit and possibly enable under the privacy tab to make your profile more discoverable. They are:
- Organization
- Phone number
Allow other users to find you profile using your email address. All profiles already have an associated email address. Email addresses are used to login or reset the account passwords. It’s also the email where notifications are sent to. In addition, You can choose whether to allow other LinkedIn users to connect with you using this email address. Maybe you ‘ve noticed the prompt from the LinkedIn app asking you to allow it to access your contacts and find your friends or business contacts on LinkedIn. Unless you allow access to the email address associated with your account, other users won’t be able to use their address books to find you. They also won’t be able to find you via an email search.
LinkedIn also allows you to enter in multiple email addresses that you are associated with. Many people have multiple email addresses – one for work, one for personal use, and maybe others for the organization they belong to.
Your phone number is also a data point that other LinkedIn users can use to connect with you. I have a phone number in my profile for authentication and account security.
The last one is your employer or organization you belong to and have listed in your profile. Other LinkedIn users can connect with you based on where you work. Like email address and phone number, users can use a company names or volunteer organizational names to connect. If you choose not to allow this, other users can still go to that company’s LinkedIn page, see who is an employee, and send a connection that manually
If you need more help with your privacy settings in general, then watch this video
