LinkedIn Etiquette - Connected, Read Message, No Response?

Hello WSO community!

I have been trying hard to network on LinkedIn and have made a few connections. But my problem is that they will read my connection message and not reply...

When is the appropriate amount of time to followup again?

Ex: Sunday, viewed an MD's profile but didn't add (not in my city). He quickly viewed mine after. So I added him as a connection - no note. He accepted this Morning. Sent him a note right after he accepted. He read the note...

Seems to happen a lot - please help!

Thank you!

BSP

 

This is how most people use LinkedIn to cold e-mail:

  1. Look up professionals on LinkedIn by bank, region, country, alma mater, etc. If their full name does not appear, Google their first name and last initial with their title to find their full name. For example, for Jon D., an associate at Goldman Sachs, you would Google "Jon D. associate Goldman Sachs LinkedIn".

  2. Find out their e-mail address.

  3. Send them an e-mail asking for time.

 

Thanks so much for the advice guys.

As I'm a total Linkedin Noob, got some follow ups.

It seems like most of the people I find on Linkedin don't have their email visible unless I try to connect with them, not if we're in a group together (College alumni group for example). Is that normal, or am I not looking in the right place to try and find it?

I know about using the standard company format for email, but what do you say about how you figured out their email address?

"I was looking through XYZ college alumni and came across your profile. I saw we both majored in basketweaving so I wanted to see if you could offer any advice for breaking into the consulting field with that background." And then should you just leave out the fact that you're guessing on their email address? I feel like it's a little stalkerish to not find their email in a legitimate way, where as Linkedin, it is at least clear you got in contact with them.

What if they have a common name, for example Tom Smith, you might end up sending it to the wrong Tsmith or Tom.Smith@company?

So does this mean that I should ask the people from that alumni association to reach out for me rather than trying to reach out to these people through Linkedin?

Thanks again for all the help guys.

 
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Did you ever explain in the cold email how you found their email or were you ever asked about it?

I've never been asked the few times I didnt note where I got it but eventually I just began to vary it to a colleague passed it on, saw it on a job advert and LinkedIn. I think its not a major issue for the person where you got the email, especially to me, it seems like you made an effort.

 
Best Response

This. I've had great success getting people to connect by using a very short connection invite message (ex: "XYZ university student interested in learning about investment banking and ABC"). Very few will actually reply to my first message, but they do connect with me. So in this case, my follow up is a longer message where I say a bit more about how I found them and to schedule call.

I'd say no matter what your follow-up message includes, starting it along the lines of "Thank you for connecting with me a couple of days/weeks ago, body." is always a good way to go.

Edit: Like many people are saying, emailing is also great. Follow up with them via email, starting off by saying that you connected on LinkedIn a few days/weeks ago

 

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