Like a dog inhaling the sweet, tantalising odour of a ripe animal carcass, you’ve come here because you want to know the secrets of how to get more LinkedIn connections. If you haven’t, then you seriously need some more training on your Internetz. Go watch some ‘lolcats’ or something.

But no, don’t do that because like the sorcerer of all things social-media that I am, I’m going to reveal to you how to boost your connections on the world’s most prominent business networking site. Which of course will mean more contacts and more cash-flow into your amazing business of selling hand-painted combs.

But, I kid. This is a serious post…

1. Spread The Word!

If you do any kind of marketing online (and I’m guessing you do considering the post your eyeballs are glued to right now) then it’s likely you’ve already got a tasty wad of online connections at your disposal. What I mean by this is a Facebook page, Twitter profile, email list, blog readership and so-on. And as these resources are already at your disposal, you’d have to be a silly sausage indeed if you didn’t regularly inform your existing contacts (at least once monthly) that you’re on LinkedIn and they should scurry along and connect with you. This is by far the fastest and easiest ways to begin getting more LinkedIn connections. And its’ free. We all like free things. Especially love.

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2. Search Your Contacts, Young Skywalker.

One amazingly-awesometastic feature of LinkedIn is being able to search your existing email contacts and finding out if they’re on LI so you can connect with them. It’s something you should have been first asked when you signed up, but if like me you skipped it the first time (In the words of Yoda; “An idiot, I was”) then maybe you should go and do it now. Go on. No, really. Go.

3. Simple, Boring but Effective

Another very easy way of how to get more connections on LinkedIn is simply to add your profile URL or a snippet saying “Connect with me on…” at the bottom of all your emails, newsletters and blog posts. And while this might sound about as obvious as a mustachioed whale wearing a tutu at a dinner party, you’d be surprised how many people don’t think of this one little trick. Especially if you’re like us and you send sometimes 150+ company emails a day, that little advertisement can have a big difference.

4. Get Searching

Alright, when you’ve exhausted all of those extremely-easy methods to boost your connections, you can start looking for outside ways to promote yourself. And when I say outside, I mean within the site itself. I’m sure you’re using LI because you want to connect with people in your industry, or key figures in companies that could use your products and/or services. This is when you use LinkedIn’s search function to start looking for these people and sending them a polite and friendly email on the site, letting them know why you should connect. And as you can only send a few of these introduction emails per month (kinda like a bad dating site), you should very carefully pick and choose who you send to. After all, making a connection with the assistant manager of a McDonalds in Manila will probably not help you much.

5. Paid LinkedIn Ads

In case you’ve been living under a sea-sponge and not actually looked around properly, you might like to know that LI has their own internal advertising system, similar to Adwords or something like that. While I’ll admit this can be a great way to advertise yourself and can result in lots of connections, the pay-per-click or CPM cost of this is freakin’ expensive to say the least and can end up being extremely costly unless you really know what you’re doing. Exercise caution the first time you launch a campaign and if you’re not converting every $5 into at least a couple of new contacts, you should seek help.

Look, there are probably other ways of how to get more connections on LinkedIn, however I’ve just listed those here that I’ve personally used in the past and I know work. Just keep in mind that if you are searching for other ways of boosting your contacts, remember it’s not always paid options that work the best.

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Now go on, get out there and get more LinkedIn connections!