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InvitationManagement

Page history last edited by PBworks 16 years, 5 months ago

From ActiveNetworkersGuide

 

Managing Your Invitations


Invitation management is essential due to the scarcity of invitations for ActiveNetworkers who have used up their limit of 3,000 and LinkedIn's algorithm that grants a small number of additional invitations based on invitations acceptance and other factors.

 

To send email or not to send email

 

Sending email to LinkedIn members asking them to invite you may be counterproductive. See Email. I ran a test from August to October 2007 to see if hiking your acceptance rate significantly increased your invitation grant. I expected it would as members receive 500 invitations with a better than average acceptance rate (over 80%). O naive me.

 

I accomplished this multiple ways.

  • I used the GAMER setting at http://MyLink500.com to indicate that I was an open networker but NOT to make my email available in the regular Libertine and Open networkers lists. This resulted in my being able to invite them directly.
  • I stopped directly inviting people to send me a ~Linkedin invitation in a number of form emails that I typically send out.
  • I focused the invitations I did receive on open networkers that provide a very high acceptance rate.

 

My gross invitation acceptance climbed from 50-60% to 80-90% and declines dropped from 3-5% to under 1%.

 

The results (drums, please) - the monthly invitations I received rose only a little from 50-100 to 100-200.

 

Evaluation and recommendation

 

This is a marginal program that did not meet my expectation. I've learned that the LinkedIn algorithm factors in not just acceptances and declines, but also IDKs and even flagged LinkedIn Answers questions. Note that IDKs aren't just limited to recent activity. They can include any invitation that is up to several months and has not yet expired. For ActiveNetworkers IDKs may be difficult to avoid.

 

These negative items severely impact your grant, so that it matters only a little how good your acceptance rate is. It doesn't sound fair to me. But it's not surprising. It's just another way for LinkedIn to target and contain ActiveNetworkers.

 

On a practical level this is just another silly little LinkedIn game. LinkedIn forces members to ask for additional invitations, focus on high acceptance rates (when members should instead be inviting non-members who have low rates), and be good boys and girls to avoid IDKs, question flags, and general demerits for unbecoming behavior. That's a lot of work and forced indoctrination to gain 100 more invites a months. In comparison top LinkedIn networkers with over 10,000 connections typically receive up to 500 invitations a month from newer open networkers. LinkedIn's grant is trivial in comparison.

 

My recommendation is that more invites are better, even if it's just another hundred. It's worth following this strategy if it doesn't be require additional time In fact you may just hit a good month where all the stars align and you do hit the invitation grant jackpot. Good luck!

 

Who to invite

I track who I invite by group. I've experienced the following acceptance rates by group. Your mileage will vary. Each group has had least 100 invitations. Each invitee is a current LinkedIn member.

 

This is not a random sample. These LinkedIn members have had plenty of time to invite me. The groups contain ONLY people who were not motivated to invite me on their own, and so are lower than you might expect (except for Lions).

 

In order of acceptance rate:

  • 92% - Open networkers
  • 76% - members of a business group that I run
  • 65% - members who publish their email address in their profile
  • 62% - members who accept an Introduction from me
  • 61% - members who I've had contact with outside of LinkedIn
  • 54% - members who are a member of a LinkedIn group I manage

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