This presentatiopn was made on a webinar on May 7, 2013. The video replay of the webinar is available at www.fillthefunnel.com/linkedin-contacts-webinar/
3. LinkedIn Contacts
• Why LinkedIn’s New Contacts Feature is Such a
Big Deal
• How to Prepare for Contacts Before it Arrives in
Your LinkedIn Profile
• What it Can Do For You
• How to Optimally Use It to Build Your Business
and Stay Top of Mind
• LinkedIn Mobile
4. Why It’s a Big Deal
• LinkedIn’s “Personal Assistant”
6. Why It’s a Big Deal
• If You Suck at Follow Up…
7. Why It’s a Big Deal
• Strategic Networks (Tagging)
8. Why It’s a Big Deal
• Giant Networks (Lost Touch/ Recent Activity)
9. Why It’s a Big Deal
• We can REMOVE connections again!
10. Getting Prepared
• Contacts can pull info from:
– Outlook
• Email
• Calendar
• Contacts
– Gmail
– vCards
– iPhone
– Yahoo
– CSV contact lists
11. Getting Prepared
• Export your Contacts into a .csv file
• Review your iPhone contacts for dupes
• Know your Outlook Web Access info
• Review all contact lists for dupes/accuracy
• Have your login information for apps such as:
– Tripit
– CardMunch
– Evernote
12. Getting Prepared
Do these things now and
keep handy so that when
Contacts goes live in your
Profile you will be ready.
13. Downsides Before You Cross Over
• The Alphabetical listing is by first name only
• You lose the ability to send a message to
Tagged groups (even those who have less than
50 members)
• If you are a super connector, the mobile app
doesn’t work
• If you are a super connector, the merge
feature doesn’t work
23. What It Can Do For You
• Increase the return on your time investment
(ROTI+)
24. What It Can Do For You
• Optimize friendships into business
opportunities (but don’t be gross)
25. What It Can Do For You
• Integrate all your
contacts into one
“dashboard”
26. What It Can Do For You
• NO Twitter and NO Facebook Updates – No
worries
27. What It Can Do For You
• You choose who gets connected to LinkedIn
and who stays hidden
28. Stay Top of Mind
• Announcements
• Recent Conversations
• Communications Archiving
• Tagging and Messaging
29. Combine Contacts and Calendars
• Combine and manage all your address books,
email contacts and calendars from within
LinkedIn
30. Sorting your Network
• All Contacts (This is based on selections you made in Contacts
Settings)
• Your Day
• Connections (This is your LinkedIn Connections)
• Saved
• Companies
• Titles
• Locations
• Sources
• Potential Merges
• Hidden
31. Sorting Tools to Keep In Touch
• Recent conversation
• Newly added
• Alphabetical
• Company
• Location
• Lost touch
32. Use Contact’s Profile as Mini-CRM
• View recent
conversations,
meeting and notes
right on your
contact’s profile
33. Tagging and Messaging
• Sort your 1st level connections AND LinkedIn
network with tags
• Choose the method you want to message your
connections
34. Announcements
• Use the new “announcements” feature to stay on
top of job changes, birthdays, trips and your
calendar
35. Mobile App
• Manage Contacts from your iPhone with new
IPhone app (Android coming soon)
41. Next Steps
• Advanced LinkedIn Tactics & Strategies
• June 4th at 9:00 am PDT / Noon EDT
• Registration Link coming
• Replay, Slides & more goodies coming to you
• Attend #LinkedInChat each Tuesday evening
– www.linkedintobusiness.com/linkedinchats
Editor's Notes
LinkedIn Contacts brings together all your address books, emails, and calendars, and keeps them up to date in one place. From these sources, we’ll automatically pull in the details of your past conversations and meetings, and bring these details directly onto your contact’s profile.” SachinReckhi
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Gmail, Google Contacts, Google Calendar; Google Apps Mail, Contacts and Calendar; Yahoo! Mail, Contacts and Calendar; Outlook Mail, Contacts and Calendar; iPhone Address Book (via the LinkedIn Contacts app); LinkedIn’s CardMunch service; Evernote and TripIt.
Gmail, Google Contacts, Google Calendar; Google Apps Mail, Contacts and Calendar; Yahoo! Mail, Contacts and Calendar; Outlook Mail, Contacts and Calendar; iPhone Address Book (via the LinkedIn Contacts app); LinkedIn’s CardMunch service; Evernote and TripIt.
Gmail, Google Contacts, Google Calendar; Google Apps Mail, Contacts and Calendar; Yahoo! Mail, Contacts and Calendar; Outlook Mail, Contacts and Calendar; iPhone Address Book (via the LinkedIn Contacts app); LinkedIn’s CardMunch service; Evernote and TripIt.
Gmail, Google Contacts, Google Calendar; Google Apps Mail, Contacts and Calendar; Yahoo! Mail, Contacts and Calendar; Outlook Mail, Contacts and Calendar; iPhone Address Book (via the LinkedIn Contacts app); LinkedIn’s CardMunch service; Evernote and TripIt.
Gmail, Google Contacts, Google Calendar; Google Apps Mail, Contacts and Calendar; Yahoo! Mail, Contacts and Calendar; Outlook Mail, Contacts and Calendar; iPhone Address Book (via the LinkedIn Contacts app); LinkedIn’s CardMunch service; Evernote and TripIt.
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Miles By turning this feature on, LinkedIn imports your iPhone’s address book to LinkedIn’s servers including detailed contact information for5 all your contacts. LinkedIn will then use this information to suggest relevant connections for you and also to help you browse, search, and organize your contacts on LinkedIn.
Miles Once selected, your LinkedIn Connections will be added to your iPhone Address book for future and easy access. No more copy and pasting from your contact list and into LinkedIn to have all the important info handy.
Miles – This feature accesses your phones calendar and sends information (like attendee emails and meeting time and place) to LinkedIn’s servers to match meeting attendees with LinkedIn profiles. It DOES NOT send your calendar notes field to LinkedIn. No more cut and paste operations to get the latest information on the people you are going to meet with. It is now all one click of your finger away at any time.
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