Create meaningful, relevant connections

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There’s an article on a well-known website which states that you should have no less than 500 connections. I assume this is supposed to impress people?

To get to this number you’re encouraged to contact everyone you’ve ever met and build a large, but ultimately pointless, network.

What you’ll end up with is a large percentage of connections that you’ll never meet or engage with again and have no professional connection to.

These weak connections won’t take the time to recommend you and probably wouldn’t know what to recommend you for as you’ve not spoken to them in such a long time.

Leave the above strategy for the vain and concentrate on creating meaningful and chile phone number resource beneficial connections. If you have a network of people that you regularly interact with and will happily recommend you then you’ll be much better off.



Don’t forget to update your LinkedIn profile URL
A simple change to your profile that is often overlooked is your profile URL. The default one assigned isn’t all that memorable, but luckily it can be changed easily.

Be sure to change it sooner rather than later and before you start adding it to other profiles, email signatures and business cards.

To change the URL, simply edit your profile and amend the link beneath your profile image.



Create a network of your personal sites
LinkedIn allows you to add the URL’s of external blogs and sites to your profile. It’s also a good strategy to add your LinkedIn profile URL to these external sites too.

Adding your site to your profile is not only a great way to encourage more traffic to your site, but also displays what you are up to outside of the professional network.