Here’s a clever little trick that I teach in my LinkedIn Dominance course to keep your connections invitations pristine

Are you keeping your optimizing your invitations sent box? Rumour has it this is one of the areas that LI might look at as part of your SSI score.

Let me know what you think of my little SSI Boost tip. Have a question for me about maximizing your Social Selling Index? Ask it here. Make sure to tag me and use #SSIBoost.

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It’s Steve Rosenbaum from SteveRosenbaum.com. I’ve got a little tip for you. I’m working in LinkedIn right now. I thought I’d let you look over my shoulders. You know, when it comes to building relationships, as one of the four categories in your SSI score, you’re going to reach out to a lot of people.

I’m in the midst of an outreach campaign right now. And I want to show you something that you want to keep tidy in your account, because this probably affects your SSI score. And certainly you don’t want to let it get too unwieldy. Here’s what I’m talking about. Let me switch over here to my desktop view.

When you reach out to people each and every day you send them a connection message. And if you go under my network, here’s something you may not know. When you go here to your invitations, you can see that I’m very active right now in this outreach campaign, I have 195 people that want to connect with me.

I’m going through these one by one, sending them a message, something you definitely want to do. Take a look at this tab that says “Sent”. These are invitations you have sent out in the past that have not been accepted. Right now I have 178.

I had gotten up to as high as 305 when I started this. And I thought, I’d show you what I’m doing, because this is important. You don’t want to let these go too long. If you do, you could end up getting penalized. It is rumored, that this is one of the factors that LinkedIn looks into is how many of these connection requests you have outstanding.

Because if you’ve got a lot outstanding, I guess the thought is maybe you’re automating. Maybe you’re doing something that’s not right. Maybe you’re reaching out to people you shouldn’t. So the bottom line is after some period of time, you can see these are I’m at two months.

Here’s what I do. I go to the bottom and then I go to the last page here, which is page two. And I’ll just start withdrawing these. It’s a fairly tedious process, but you can get through it in 15 minutes, not a big deal. You just simply say withdrawal and confirm it. Give it a second to refresh. You’ll see, she goes away. Next one comes up and just repeat the process, go through it.

I’m down to one 76. I’ll keep doing this until I get down to the past few weeks to a month. Certainly if you get up over a couple hundred start withdrawing them. Nobody knows for sure, but I have heard it said that this could count against you in your SSI score.

It certainly could come against you when they’re looking at you. And wondering if you are working LinkedIn authentically. Authenticity is what LinkedIn wants. They want you authentically working here, building your network and not automating it and not doing spam and all that kind of stuff.

There’s my tip for you today. It is keeping your invitations sent clean. It’s an important step to log into LinkedIn right now. And go ahead and go through that process and just know that this is just one of the many things that I teach in my LinkedIn Dominance program, but I wanted to share it with you so that you can improve your SSI score in your own account.

Thanks again. This is Steve Rosenbaum, come and visit me at SteveRosenbaum.com.

Have a great day. Bye bye.

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Don’t worry it all makes sense once you’ve read this short and powerful post and claimed my free gift buried inside. (Another sales lesson lesson I learned by eating Cracker Jack as a kid 😉).

I know a lot of people hate the idea of selling anything. They tell me things like “Selling makes them feel slimy and dirty”.

The trouble is, those same people have grown accustomed to niceties like eating when they’re hungry and having a roof over their heads to protect themselves and their families.

Make no mistake about it… You have to sell, or you perish.

Yup, I said.

You can’t get anywhere in life without selling.

Think about it.

You had to sell your parents on the idea of letting you drive when you were a teenager. When you got your first job, you had to sell your company on the idea of hiring you. You had to sell your spouse on the idea of partnering with you for life. You had to sell the bank on giving you a mortgage so you can buy a house.

Get the idea?

You’re Better Than You Think

The reality is, not only do you do it, but you’re probably better at it than you realize. So, let me give you my secret to beating the pants off my competition and having a ton of fun doing it so that you can stop hating and start loving the fine art of selling!

I’ve got trophies on my wall and cash in the bank from winning sales contests and beating out companies considerably bigger than mine.

In fact, recently, while at a 7 and 8 figure mastermind event I was invited to, one of the members stood up and vouched about me…

“This guy’s a BEAST, I’ve never seen anybody drive sales like him from a single promotion.”

Well, that got everybody’s attention!

Almost in unison, the entire room demanded: “How’d you do it?”

Here’s what I shared with them…

Take a look at some of my recent email subject lines and blog post headlines:

• Why I nearly got stabbed on my first sales call
• My Train Ride from HELL
• The Perfect Sales Storm
• The most painful decision I’ve ever made
• Why I got fired me (and what I did to get even)
• The Best Massage She Ever Had

What makes you want to read them more than all that other boring stuff that invades your inbox every day?

Interesting? Yes.

Fun? Yes.

But there’s something even more about them…

Each of these subject lines instills CURIOSITY in the reader even though some of them are only 4 or 5 words long!

Curiosity is VERY POWERFUL.

When people are curious, they can’t move on. They have to engage.

We’re literally wired that way by something called the Ziegarnik Effect.

And the single best way to pique curiosity is by telling a great STORY.

Yes… Stories SELL

YUGELY!!!

Every Day Events Make Great Stories

Everybody’s got stories to tell and they can create more each and every day.

For instance, yesterday at the grocery store, I saw a lady in the parking lot physically move a shopping cart corral, shopping carts and all, so that she could park in a space closer to the store. She grunted, she groaned, she sounded like she was deadlifting a baby elephant…

The kicker was there was a spot literally 4 spots away from her, but that was just too far to walk!

My mind is EXPLODING with story ideas just telling you about this:

• Why work smart when you can work hard?
• How to get your weightlifting done while shopping.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger’s SECRET to getting great parking spots (This ALWAYS works)

See how easy that is?

My Gift to You

Let me help you become a great storyteller so that you can land more clients and sell more stuff.

I usually sell my planner “Tell Your Story, Build Your Brand” for $49. But today, I want you to have it for free as my gift for always reading my stories and sharing them with your friends 🙂

Here’s how to claim your free Story Planner

1. Go to my Facebook page messenger
2. Click the blue “Send to Messenger” button
3. Follow all remaining prompts

Enter the keyword STORY (you might have to press “Get Started” first)
Follow the prompts

I’d love to read your stories, too! Come join the BEST Small Business Marketing Group on Facebook and introduce yourself with a great story!

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