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Easily increase your LinkedIn company follower count

Hello hackers!

Today I wanted to share a little trick that I recently learned.

Some of you probably already know this, but I figured I would share for the benefit of all.

First, if you don't have created your company or project profile on LinkedIn, you're missing on a lot of potential. So go ahead a create one, it's really easy and quick.

LinkedIn allows you to invite your connections to follow your company page. This presents the invitation to the person in a very similar way as a regular personal connection, where they just need to click accept.

It almost looks like a personal invitation.

Because of this, I found out that the conversion rate between invitation and people actually accepting the request is quite high, allowing you to increase your following by a lot in just a few days.

How to do it: Go to your company page, on the top right click on "Admin tool" and then "Invite Connections".

You can do 50 requests per day. I do this every morning, every day. Besides this, I also invite another 30-50 or so relevant people to be my personal connection on a daily basis in order to increase my network.

This is just a little tip with high impact that I wanted to share with you, I hope that if you did not know about it you find it helpful for you :)

Hope this helps you,
Happy hacking!

on February 3, 2020
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    I tried this before and it was really great. However, this option does no longer show in the admin panel for either me or my boyfriend . Does anyone else have the same problem? Sorry for hijacking your post here.

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      I have the same problem. I saw something in their documents saying they disabled it for users with larger followings for the time being. Not great tbh.

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        Oh wow, what BS. Feels like they should have done the opposite since people with large followings are usually more loyal to their platform. Oh well :) Thanks for giving me the heads up!

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    Good tip thanks! I just started taking company pages on LinkedIn more seriously & I overlooked this 😅

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    Good info. Thanks for sharing.

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    Why would you do this?
    What benefit has it brought to you?

    I went as far as fully deleting my LinkedIn as it felt like a pool of people selling to each other instead of being a tangible useful platform.

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      Great question.

      I'm still early in this process so I can't say much about results yet.

      But I believe that having a following online is beneficial for any company.

      My company is mostly B2B, and so I believe that LinkedIn should be better for my goals than Facebook or Twitter (although I'm also investing in those).

      Only time will tell, but I think that nothing negative can come out of it :)

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        Let's assume you were being paid to do this as an employee.

        • Your following a process day after day which costs time.
        • You have no idea what the goal is
        • You are building an audience by sending requests but not really adding value
        • You are gonna kill your social media engagement metrics by having so many followers but not so many liking/commenting on your content.
        • This means when you finally decide to unleash with your 20k followers, you find that your content is buried in news feeds because LinkedIn knows you have so many dormant followers as your ER stats are rock bottom.
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      I would say that we've gained all our clients through LinkedIn since it has allowed to us connect with people in our industry. I agree with you to some extent, it's getting a bit crowded with sales people there, but I personally think it's less aggressive to connect with, share value and contact a potential client on Linkedin rather than calling or sending cold emails.

      If anyone wants some tips on how to use Linkedin we posted an article about this a few months ago on our resource page: https://blog.vreel.co/how-to-use-linkedin-to-grow-your-business/

      I hope someone here will find it helpful! :)

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    Are you able to import emails into a company page?

    The way I got to 500+ for my personal LinkedIn was by dropping in an exported email list from my contacts when I signed up.

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      I'm not currently aware if that is a possibility.

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    Do you know if there is an easy way to see if they already follow the page? So, I would potentially do that, but I wouldn't want to send an invite if they've already followed it.

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      It only allows you to invite connections who do not follow yet and who were not invited before :)