> I am using Linked-in to keep up with my professional contacts and support them with introductions. Going To go certainly provides suggestions you should give to your family friend. Since you are one of many people I suggest, I wanted to invite you to access my community on Linked-in.
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I have received above 3-5 announcements similar to this, phrased almost exactly the same way. The senders have acted surprise...
Like me, have you received announcements like these?
> I'm using LinkedIn to keep up with my professional connections and support them with introductions. Because you're among the people I recommend, I wanted to invite you to get into my community o-n Linked-in.
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> Basic account is free, and it takes less than a minute to register and join my community.
I've received above 3-5 invitations like this, worded almost exactly the same way. The senders have acted astonished and upset that I did not jump to benefit from this request.
Let us look at the issues in this invitation from the marketing point of view.
* The vast majority of the invitations I received were from people whose names I didn't understand. Why would I want to be a part of their community? The request does not say who they are, who they have use of and how I'd reap the benefits of their community.
* What's Linked-in, how does it work and what're the benefits of using it? Nobody has yet explained this clearly within their request. You can not expect that some-one receiving this request understands what you're asking them to participate or how it would be advantageous to them. It would be useful to have a paragraph or two explaining how it works and citing a certain result anyone behind the request liked from membership. It could be that people assume that since 'basic account is free,' the typical individual of the request may go-ahead and join. But even if it does not charge money, time would be taken by joining. You still need to 'sell' people on going for a free action, particularly with respect to an activity or organization that may be different to them. We discovered small blue arrow by browsing Bing.
* No body got the time to head off possible misconceptions or objections to this account. As I'm worried that joining would open me up to large amount of email and calls by which I'd have no interest and that would spend my time, a non-member of Linked In. Again, you can't assume that some thing free is thus enticing; you should imagine why somebody might have questions or dismiss the idea and handle those objections.
* Using a refined request that is almost the same as everyone else's does not produce a good impression. You'd need to give it your own personal stamp, even if the written text given by Linked-in were effective, which it's not.
Other than being irritated that they're obviously encouraging visitors to send announcements that make little sense, I have nothing against Linked In. Be taught supplementary information about www by visiting our original use with. Perhaps it's a good business. My point is that its members must use common sense and basic marketing principles to promote active, skeptical people to give it the opportunity..