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ConnectionContactLimit

Page history last edited by Marc Freedman 16 years, 7 months ago

from LinkedInSurprises , AskMyDaddy

  1. How can I directly contact all my connections?
    1. You asked
    2. MyLinkDaddy writes
      1. LinkedIn updates
      2. Keep it short
      3. The number of connection you can contact
      4. Selecting multiple connections
      5. Updates outside of LinkedIn

How can I directly contact all my connections?

 

You asked

When you want to send out a job referral notice on LinkedIn – You bring up the Distribute New Job page and then it asks you to "select connections" – In my case there are pages and pages – is there any way to choose all??? I can’t find any way to do it or is it right in front of me?

 

MyLinkDaddy writes

There are no shortcuts. LinkedIn makes it intentionally hard to contact lots of connections.

 

Be aware that having a connection does not give you permission to send email like an update. See more at ContactingConnections and SendingLinkedInUpdates.

 

Contacting all your connections depends on how many you have.

 

LinkedIn updates

 

There are multiple places on LinkedIn where you can send LinkedIn messages to your connections:

  • Forward your profile
  • Share a job
  • Post a job
  • Submit a question on LinkedIn Answers
  • Forward someone else's profile.

 

More at EffectiveLinkedInUpdates and DirectLinkedInUpdates.

 

But your friends at LinkedIn limit how you can contact your own connections. These restrictions are more ways LinkedIn discriminates against active networkers and people with many connections. See LinkedInSurprises.

 

Specific ways connection contact is limited follow.

 

Keep it short

Messages are limited to 2,000 characters.

 

The number of connection you can contact

You used to be able to contact all your connections. Not any more. Now you can only send an update to 200 connections at a time. If you have more than 200 connections you have to repeat the update process for different batches of connections, which gets increasingly unwieldy.

 

Selecting multiple connections

You used to be able to select all your connections at once. Then that was reduced to a page of connections. Now you can't even do that. Multiple connections can only be selected by a letter of the alphabet corresponding to the first letter of the last name ... as long as you have less than 200 connections for that letter. If you have more than 200 you can only select each connection individually.

 

Updates outside of LinkedIn

 

To get around LinkedIn restrictions see our tips for ContactingConnectionsOutsideLinkedIn

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