How do I generate leads by using my profile?

In this article we are going to walk you through how to generate new business leads from your profile. This is the first of many newsletters we will be sending out and will be discussing Ads, how to improve facebook ads with LinkedIn, Email Marketing and many more topics over the course of the next few months so make sure you subscribe

Note: It isn't the most fun job you will ever do, but like the gym, you get results by being consistent.

The Daily Routine of Someone Manually Managing their LinkedIn.

This guide is going to teach you exactly how to get multiple leads from LinkedIn every single day.

We recommend setting out a daily slot where you stop everything else, switch off your phone and emails, and get this done. Within days you will have a continuous stream of leads coming back to you on LinkedIn. 

How you choose to manage these leads is up to you and highly dependent on your industry and product. For most salespeople, the issue is finding warm leads to close and for you, that issue is now solved.

Here is your new daily LinkedIn routine, with the steps explained throughout the pages of this document:

• Login to LinkedIn
• Add 20 new connections
• Message every new connection from the previous day
• Respond to everyone who has replied from the previous day's direct messages
• Repeat for each account that you manage

How long does this take each day?

This is dependent on the number of people who replied to you from the day before, and how long it takes to find new connections to add. 

From experience, this whole process takes 1.5-2.5 hours per day. Sales is a numbers game, so the more active you are on LinkedIn, the more chance you have of being successful.

The 5 Steps to Manually Manage Your LinkedIn Profile

Step 1 

Customer Profiling

Time taken: 30 mins

Frequency: Once per month

Customer profiling is arguably the most important part of the whole process. If your future customers are on LinkedIn, you first need to identify them. Take 30 minutes to sit down and define exactly who your perfect customers are. 

You will want to consider the following:

• Job title

• Location

• Target companies 

Job Title

Your perfect customer will often have a different job title depending on the company they work for. If you're selling marketing services, depending on the size of the company, you may need to speak to a Marketing Executive, Marketing Director, Marketing Apprentice or even a Managing Director. Pick the top 5 most likely job titles for your perfect customer and rotate them as you go.

Location

We recommend targeting city by city and exhausting all of the target leads, rather than choosing the whole country. 

Target Companies

Are there any companies that have a significant amount of your target customers working there? For example, if you're targeting Managers of fast-food restaurants, you'll pull up thousands of results if you chose McDonalds, KFC and Subway.

Take the time once per month to sit down and review your target customer profile. Is it effective at getting responses and are you getting through to decision makers? 

Most of the time you'll review things and see that what you're doing is working, but sometimes investing a little thinking time into reviewing who you're targeting can pay dividends.

Step 2

Account Setup

Time taken: 30 mins

Frequency: Once

To effectively lead source from LinkedIn, it's best to have a LinkedIn Premium account.

The business option is perfect and costs £49.99 per month (inc. VAT).

This enables you to use unlimited search - your ordinary LinkedIn account can only search 100 people at a time.

Step 3

Connection Building

Time taken 30-45 mins

Frequency: 5-7 days per week

Method: Enter job title in search bar > choose connection type > choose location > choose companies > add relevant people

Using your customer profile, you can now enter the job title, location and company specific search parameters in LinkedIn. You will be shown all of the connections that match those criteria. Also, ensure you select 2nd and 3rd+ degree connections. It's not not necessary to include 1st degree connections as these are people that you've already connected with.

Once you've entered these details and your results have appeared, go through and add everyone that seems relevant. 

Each week LinkedIn allows between 70-90 connection requests. The number changes every day based on LinkedIn's algorithm and once you hit your daily limit, a pop-up will appear saying that you've hit your connection request limit. Be careful not to do this too often as you could get blocked. We recommend aiming for 20 people every day. 

To get the most out of your account we HIGHLY recommend logging in on Saturdays and Sundays and adding people. If you don't, you will miss out on hundreds of new connections every month.

Step 4

Direct Messaging New Connections

Time taken: 30-60 mins

Frequency: 7 days per week

Method: Click on My Network > go to connections (top left) > scroll down to the last person you messaged > work your way back up to the top, messaging people as you go

Here is your first touch point with the new potential leads. As much as 74% of people open their LinkedIn messages on their phone, which means there's limited space to make a first impression with your message.

Ensure that your messages are short, sweet and to the point. The people you're messaging will be very busy and a sales message will be discarded if you don't quickly get across your value proposition and give them a reason to offer you their contact details.

Bonus: Follow-up messaging

Have you heard of the rule that it takes up to 7 touch points for marketing to become effective? Yes, 7. So if you're expecting maximum results from 1 LinkedIn message, sadly that's not the case. 

We recommend doing between 2-4 follow ups AFTER the initial message. Now, as you're going to be getting hundreds of new connections per week, this is where the extra time will start to add up. But it is worth it. 

The most efficient way to complete your secondary messages is to pick a certain day, say Friday, and on that day go back to all of the connections that you connected with from 2 weeks ago, sending a follow up message to anyone that hasn't replied. This will take around an hour a week, but you'll see the results.

Step 5

Responding and Nurturing Leads

Time taken: 35-55 mins

Frequency: 7 days per week

Method: Go to messages on right of screen > scroll to the bottom > work your way up, responding to everyone and gathering their contact details

So you've logged in, added 20 people, messaged everyone who has accepted your connection request from the previous day and noticed that 5 people have replied to you from yesterday's direct messaging (see the responses on the right in the account below).

Here comes the labour intensive part of gathering people's details. Hopefully the message that you sent yesterday has prompted a lot of people to contact you asking for more info. However, due to LinkedIn's suggested response feature, many people will reply simply with 'OK', 'Sure' or 'Yes please'.

When people reply with these messages it's great news, as they're interested in what you've got to sell to them. However, they will now require a quick follow up message saying something like 'Great, what's the best email address to send some information over to please?' or ' Perfect! Shall I give you a call tomorrow at 10.30am? What's the best contact number to reach you on?' Then it's up to you to contact them and close the sale.

The Added Value of Growing Your LinkedIn Network

Your LinkedIn profile is a huge asset that if utilised properly, can generate a lot of sales for you. Whilst this guide focusses mainly on connecting with and directly messaging people, there is a lot more value that can be gained from having a large LinkedIn Network.

Posting Updates on your Timeline

Regularly updating your profile with relevant posts is a great (and free) way to let your contacts know that you're an industry expert and to keep them informed of the work you do and how they could benefit from working with you. The beauty of posting on your feed is that you don't even need to create content yourself. 

You can provide value for your connections when you share relevant industry information, news and articles. By sharing other peoples' content you show your connections that you have your finger on the pulse and paint yourself to be an industry expert.

Writing Articles

A fairly recent (2018) update to LinkedIn is the ability to write full length articles. If written properly, with SEO in mind, these articles can generate large amounts of traffic/visitors, many of which will then visit your profile or start following you. 

Again, you don't have to physically write the articles yourself. There are plenty of low-cost, excellent quality article writers on freelancer platforms such as peopleperhour.com and upwork.com. You should be able to get a professional article written for as little as £25!

Posts from your Connections

Another benefit of having a large LinkedIn network is that you'll see posts and articles from your connections. This will keep you in the loop of what's going on in the industry. Also if one of your connections posts a question that you can help with, you will be able to provide value for them by answering it.

In the next article we will be discussing how to make your profile get more connections by making some small but effective changes.

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