How I Added 1,374,219 contacts on LinkedIn in 7 Days

This post was written by Greig on January 18, 2009
Posted Under: LinkedIn For Business
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TopLinked.com

Last year I joined http://www.toplinked.com/ and the results were I added over a million contacts to my network in 7 days.


It was quite overwhelming to see the flood of invitations coming into my inbox infact I had to temporarilly turn off my e-mail notication because I was getting way too many e-mails. Luckily LinkedIn has a bulk accept function so I only had to login and click this to connect with all of my new friends. In total I added 1,136 new first level contacts in one week and when you included all of their second and third level contacts I now had access to an additional 1,374,219 contacts that I did not previously have thanks to joining TopLinkedIn. The way LinkedIN gives you access to 3 levels deep of contacts is one of the features that makes LinkedIn so powerfull compared to other social networking sites which do not let you see friends of friends.

I highly recommend anyone in business join TopLinkedIn. There is a free membership and a paid membership. Let me explain to you the difference this IS VERY IMPORTANT. With the free membership you get access to everyone’s profile so that you can send them invitations, however remember that LinkedIn ONLY allows you to send out 3000 invititations total for your lifetime. So if you take avail of the free TopLinkedIn membership you will burn through your invitations quickly and leave you with none left. Once you have none left you will have to send people an e-mail asking them to please send you an invite as you will onlyg be able to grow your network when others invite you which can be very diabling. The best strategy is to always get your friend or contact to send you the invite so that you are saving your invites. It does not matter if the invites do not get accepted you never get them back. You cannot find out how many invites you have left until you have used up the first 2000 after this LinkedIn will put a “count down ticker” on your invite field showing you how many you have left.

With the paid toplinkedIn membership everyone will send you the invites and thus you save your invites for better use in the future. You can get a paid membership for $9.95 a month and then cancel it after the first month or to stay active for a whole year for $49.95 although after the first week you only get a few new invitations each week so it is not so worth it anymore.

On TopLinkedIn they also show the the full list of paying members so it is beneficial to be on this list as people will search this to find power connectors. TopLink shows the top 100 on the first screen I am listed at #64 in the TopLinked rankings and I tout this in my profile and I bet a lot of people connect with me because they think I am the 64th most connected on all of LinkedIn and believe I benefit from the fact that people think this. Well let me tell you a secret. People pay to get on this list. Rather then sign up for a monthly account I made a donation of $200 to TopLinkedIn not knowing exactly what I would be getting and they put me at #64 as a thank you. So if you were to make a donation of $201 they would probably put you at #63 ahead of me and I would drop down a spot lol. For someone that is into internet marketing on LinkedIN or into recruiting this is a small investment to pay and very worthwhile. Part of the agreement with TopLinked is that you will display their URL in your profile and this also allows searchers to easily find and connect with you.

Also if you are just starting out on LinkedIN you want to get over 500 connections as soon as possible because after 500 LinkedIn does not show the public how many connections you actually have so you can look a lot bigger then you actuallly are. People think I have the 64th most connections when really I only have about 1700 total first level connections and I just got 1136 of those from TopLinked so I actually had only about 250 personal connections before i joined TopLinked. Now I look like a power networker! Ron Bates by the way is #1 on LinkedIn with 44,000 first level connections. I recommend you connect with Ron as you will instantly get access to all 44,000 of his contacts plus all of their contacts. I also recommend you connect with me to get access to all of my contacts and so you can get more of these great tips. lol

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Whats your take on this? Do you want a big network or do you want to be broke? lol

Reader Comments

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#1 
Written By Kazelbnp on January 31st, 2009 @ 8:43 AM

Another great article. Thanks!

#2 
Written By Suzi Fox on March 6th, 2009 @ 9:00 PM

Thanks for sharing this. I am signing up right now since it is so easy.

#3 
Written By Brian C, on March 6th, 2009 @ 9:00 PM

I implemented this last week and now I have 300 new contacts in just 5 days. The best $10 I ever spent. It seemed like it was so hard to build up my contacts on LinkedIn.

Suzi Fox

#4 
Written By Suzi Fox on March 6th, 2009 @ 9:02 PM

Could someone explain what the benefit is to having thousands or millions of contacts on LinkedIn (other than impressing people with big numbers)?

Also, what are the “other social networking sites which do not let you see friends of friends”? MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter let you see that- so what sites are you talking about?

#5 
Written By Chris on March 24th, 2009 @ 4:41 PM

I’m sure a lot of people are thinking same thing, so thank you for asking this Chris.

Having a large LinkedIn network is about being found. Lets say I want to outsource my next web development project or hire a web developer; I am going to go toLinkedIn and search for those key words. If your network is not with in 3 degrees of mine I will not be able to find you. So your business or job search is missing out on opportunities landing in your lap by limiting the size of your network. Does that make sense?

If you have any sort of business or are in a job search then you are leaving money on the table by not expanding your network and getting the most out of your free resources.

#6 
Written By Greig on March 24th, 2009 @ 5:53 PM

Facebook allows you to look through your friends profiles but it does not extend “Search” to the third level like LinkedIn does. It is at this third level where you get the highest exponential growth. If you have a 100 contacts and your friends average 100 contacts then at the third level on LinkedIn you are in the network of 100×100x100 = 1,000,000 people which is still just a small portion of the 40 million people on LinkedIn.

Joining TopLinked will expand your first level network to over 500 SuperConnectors which will mean you can be found by 90% of users on LinkedIn when they search for you.

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