This document provides tips and tricks for mastering LinkedIn. It outlines hacks for discovering a prospect's interests, hiding your connections from competitors, sorting connections into groups, searching a connection's network for referrals, optimizing your profile for search, finding out a connections' total number, exporting email addresses, messaging non-connections, finding common connections, customizing connection requests on mobile, reorganizing endorsements, viewing profiles in Gmail, and setting up automated lead generation via saved searches.
6. 1) Go to a connection’s
profile.
2) Mouse over the arrow
next to the “endorse”
button and click “View
recent activity.”
3) Get a digest of
everything your prospect
has been reading,
sharing, commenting on,
and liking recently.
8. 1) Hover over your picture
in the upper right
corner, and click
“Privacy & Settings.”
2) Click the “Privacy” tab.
3) Click “Who can see
your connections.”
4) Select “only you.”
10. 1) Visit a connection’s profile.
2) Click “tag” under the
Relationship tag.
3) Tag the connection with a
specific group.
4) Click “manage tags” to edit or
delete existing tags, or “add
new tag” to create new ones.
12. 1) Visit a connection’s profile.
2) Click the number of
connections they have.
3) Click the magnifying glass.
4) Search for potential referrals by
job title or company.
14. 1) Choose a keyword or two the
people you’re interested in
meeting (prospects, recruiters,
industry leaders, etc.) might
search for.
2) Insert in headline.
3) Insert 3-4 times in summary.
4) Insert anywhere else possible!
16. 1) Type in a person’s name in
the top search bar and click
the blue magnifying glass
icon.
2) Click on “500+”
3) Check out the number of
connections in the top left
corner.
18. 1) Hover over the “My
Network” tab and click
“Connections.”
2) Click the gear icon on the
top right corner.
3) Under “Advanced
Settings” click “Export
LinkedIn Connections.”
4) Choose your file type,
and export.
22. 1) Enter the URL www.linkedin.com/alumni
2) Click the “change university” dropdown to search any alumni.
3) Filter by industry, location, skills, company, major, and more.
24. 1) Click on a person’s
profile.
2) Click on the menu icon
at the top right of the
screen.
3) Click “Personalize
invite.”
4) Personalize your
request.
26. 1) Click into the edit profile
view.
2) Click the arrow button
next to the “Skills &
Endorsements” section.
3) Drag and drop your skills
into the correct order, and
hit save.
28. 1) Download Rapportive.
2) Open Gmail.
3) Rejoice in the fact that ads
have been replaced by the
LinkedIn information of
the person you’re
emailing.
30. 1) Enter your search specifications and click enter.
2) Click “Save search” in the upper right corner.
3) Set the frequency of how often you want new search results emailed to you.