{"id":7939,"date":"2011-02-21T06:37:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T11:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37d57f8fa2.nxcli.io\/blog\/?p=7939"},"modified":"2011-03-04T08:07:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T13:07:25","slug":"how-many-people-should-you-invite-to-join-you-on-linkedin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/web-marketing\/social-media\/how-many-people-should-you-invite-to-join-you-on-linkedin\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many People Should You Invite To Join You On LinkedIn?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LinkedIn gives you 3,000 invites to connect with prospects, JV partners and others.<\/p>\n<p>And while 3,000 seems like a lot if you wanted to invite all the people in your college class, along with all the people in your favorite LinkedIn group, etc you&#8217;d&#8230;<!--more--><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7942\" title=\"Social Media Marketing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Social-Media-Marketing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"107\" \/><\/p>\n<p>use up your invites quickly.<\/p>\n<p>While you shouldn&#8217;t hold back on inviting others to connect with you on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/sales\/salespeople-linkedin\/\">LinkedIn<\/a>, the best approach is to get others to approach you, to invite you to link with them, and save most of your invites for the top prospects, rainmakers, potential affiliates and gurus you want to connect with.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the approach I use and while I&#8217;ve sent out over 700 LinkedIn invites, I now get 40-50 request from other LinkedIn members every day or close to 300 per week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LinkedIn gives you 3,000 invites to connect with prospects, JV partners and others. And while 3,000 seems like a lot if you wanted to invite all the people in your college class, along with all the people in your favorite LinkedIn group, etc you&#8217;d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[224],"tags":[394],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}