How to Work with Connections on LinkedIn
637 views · Published 10 October 2016 · 17:16 · Indexed 21 September 2026
Channel: jmgrp · 2016 · Education
UPDATED VIDEO at https://youtu.be/XaRausFHoOs. Once you’ve optimized your LinkedIn profile (as well as that of your employees or team members), your next step is to learn to work with connections. Materials at http://bit.ly/2d1GEKn). In this video, Jason explains how 1st and 2nd level connections functions on LinkedIn, as well as get you to brainstorm a strategy to grow your 1st level connections. LinkedIn networking is all about connections. Similar to Facebook, when you and another person “connect” on LinkedIn, that puts you in a relationship. When you post an update, there is a good chance that that connection will see this update in her newsfeed, and vice-versa. You can also direct message that connection, and you can see her email address, phone number, etc. Next, you can see “through” a 1st level connection into her 1st level connections (which would be your 2nd level connections). You can ask the 1st level connection to introduce you to the 2nd level, just as at a real-world business event you might ask Person A to introduce you to Person B. In this way, LinkedIn functions as your online “business Rolodex,” in which you can “use” your 1st level connections to network into your 2nd level connections. You want to “grow” your 1st level connections, thereby expanding your network up to and including using your 1st level connections to reach out to your 2nd levels (and get them to become your 1st’s).
