Looking to stay in touch with your contacts even better on Linkedin? Well, here are 12 ways to make Linkedin work better for you - super quick and effective. Everything from a tip on 'saying thank you' when people share you content, to sending a birthday wish.

1. How to use Linkedin to stay
‘top of mind’

2. When someone stays in touch with you, they stay
'top of mind' in your awareness, which enables you to
continue being part of someone's world. In turn, this also
makes it a lot easier to make an approach when you want
to deepen the relationship with the person, e.g. requesting
a call, interview, or introduction.
There are so many cool, quick, ways to stay in touch with
people on Linkedin, and here are just a few...

3. 1. Changing something on your profile
You’ll need this setting to be ‘on’ but once it is, it’ll send
people a notification when you make a change:
i.e. change the button from ‘no’ to ‘yes’

4. Tip: Unless you have a good plan e.g. a job title
change, then best to switch button to NO when making
changes to profile as this just delivers clutter to your
connections. (h/t Greg Cooper for that one!)

5. 2. Sharing an update
From ‘Home’ click on ‘share an update’:

6. Then:

7. And choose the audience:
Then click ‘share’.
Note, notifications are not sent for standard updates unless
specifically mentioned. (h/t Greg Cooper)

8. 3. Commenting on other people’s updates:
This is a direct way of getting people’s attention,
through engaging with their content.

9. 4. Sharing people’s updates:
You can also ‘share’ peoples updates too. They will
probably like that!
This will send them a notification in the same way a ‘like’
does:

10. 5. Linkedin’s own ‘ways to keep in touch’.
From the home page you will see e.g. ‘15 ways to keep in
touch’
(which should really be: ways to stay in touch with 15
people, but still handy…)

11. From Home you have a super quick way to send
people a notification that is all about them:
You can ‘Like’

12. You can ‘comment’
You can also send birthday wishes, if someone in your
network is celebrating.

13. 6. Direct messages to existing contacts
If they ‘know you’ this is seems a great way of breaking
through the noise of people’s email inbox i.e. if they are
1st connections.

14. 7. Visiting someone’s profile
This will send them a notification, assuming you
haven’t prevented people seeing that you visit (in
your settings).

15. 8. Endorse people

16. Once you’ve endorsed one people you will be
given the option for more:

17. 9. Publishing your own content:
When you publish a post, people
may well like/comment/share it.
Your connections will also
receive a notification like these:

18. From a published post itself you can
engage in several ways:
10. Like people’s comments

19. 11. You can reply to people’s comments

20. 12. Thanking people when they share your post:
To do this you will need to ‘view stats’...

21. Then you will see the shares (in this case ‘94’):

22. Once you click, you will see the people who shared:

23. Click on ‘View Share’

24. From there you can ‘like’ and thank too:

25. Conclusion:
As you can see, Linkedin gives us loads of ways to stay
top of mind - and I know there are a load more ways.
Please let me know in comments below and you will help
me to build a bigger picture of this network.

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