How to Maximize Your LinkedIn Results

Your LinkedIn strategy can either help you build and scale your business or drain your resources and leave you frustrated and burnt out.

In today’s letter, I’ll show you how to maximize the ROI (return on investment) of the time you spend on LinkedIn.

1. Build a targeted network

A high-quality network consists of:

1. Ideal Prospects

2. Active users (peers)

3. Potential Partners

You should max out your connection requests every week by adding as many ideal prospects as possible to your network.

Build your LinkedIn network like you’d build an email list of qualified buyers.

The more targeted and relevant, the better.

This is extremely important to get your content and your offers in front of the right audience.

You’ll also need to connect with other entrepreneurs who are building an audience on LinkedIn. They’re the most active users on the platform.

You can collaborate with them to expand the reach of your content and partner with them when business opportunities arise.

2. Create a lead magnet

A high-quality lead magnet is a great way to warm up to your potential clients and capture their contact details.

It should demonstrate your expertise by helping your prospects solve a problem that gets them one step closer to achieving their goals.

For example, if you sell a LinkedIn ghostwriting service, you can create a free guide that helps your prospects optimise their LinkedIn Profile.

It should be so good that it leaves them wanting more and wondering what else do you offer that can benefit them.

Lead magnets can be:

• Free pdf guides

• Free email courses

• Free video courses

• Free consultations

• Free software trials

It could even be a mix of some of the above. Have at it!

It’s critical to have a high-quality lead magnet. You want to create something that you would be proud of sending to everyone you know.

3. Create a front-end offer

A front-end offer is a product or service that is designed to attract new customers by providing high value at a relatively low cost.

The primary goal of a front-end offer is to get potential customers into your sales funnel by offering something that solves a specific problem at a lower price point.

This initial transaction helps to build trust and establish a relationship with your clients. It’s a low risk purchase decision for them and it gives you a chance to overdeliver and upsell them later.

It’s especially important for LinkedIn because you can optimise your profile around this offer to turn profile visitors into engaged leads.

4. Start more conversations

Now that you’re connected to the right people, your goal is to start as many conversations as possible, especially with your ideal prospects.

Send them a direct message and ask them if they would be interested in checking out your lead magnet.

Learn more about them and their business. Uncover their current challenges, fears, and frustrations. Find ways to help them.

Do the same with your peer-level connections and see if you could introduce them to someone or if there are opportunities to collaborate.

Avoid getting sucked into the newsfeed and spend as much time as possible building relationships in the DMs (direct messages).

5. Go off-platform

Social media platforms can change their rules or even shut down.

By taking your audience off-platform, you keep control of your contacts and can still reach them no matter what happens on social media.

You can do that by building an email list. One of the best ways to build a list is to create a weekly newsletter like this one.

You can give away your lead magnet in exchange for your audience’s email address and then nurture them by adding more value with your newsletter.

Don’t just collect email addresses for the sake of building a list. The money isn’t in the list; it’s in the relationship you build with your audience.

You should also get on video calls with people from your network whether they’re prospects or peers that you’re collaborating with.

While one-on-one conversations aren’t the most scalable, they’re the most valuable conversations you can have to build your business.

If you do all of the above, getting traction is inevitable. You will build a valuable network, get more clients, and grow your business.

The truth is, LinkedIn can get repetitive and boring just like any other platform or business process that requires consistency to see results.

But there’s so much value in consistency and repetition. So, either accept boredom as part of the process or find ways to keep things interesting.

Perspective is everything. Choose to enjoy the process and you will.

Until next time, keep creating!

Omara

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