Followers or contacts on Linkedin are not the same. You who have a professional profile on Linkedin have contacts, but you can also have followers, if you so decide. I explain it to you in this post. So that you know advantages and disadvantages, and can apply the strategy that best suits you. Index of contents Some time ago, I published an article in which I talked about the ideal network of contacts on Linkedin . In it, I argued the pros and cons of having a large network with many contacts, or a smaller network with well-chosen quality contacts. Like everything, no solution is perfect. So there are points for and against, in both options. Contacts on Linkedin: levels and group contacts Contacts are those people who are part of your network. The closest and most direct are the st level. This group includes people whose personal invitation you have accepted or who you have proactively invited. st level people ‘open’ your network to other nd and rd level people. That is, people who are contacts of your contacts (nd level), and people who are contacts of your nd level contacts (rd level).
There your network ends
There is an exception, group contacts, that is, people who are in your network only because they share a group membership with you. Linkedin Vietnam Phone Number Data groups are places that bring together people with areas of common interest. That is why Linkedin understands that it is good to open the doors for these people to get to know each other. Your network is made up of types of contacts: st level, nd level, rd level and group. Of the more than million professionals registered on Linkedin as of October , you only have access to those who are part of your network. I say ‘only’ but they can be a multitude.Only your st degree contacts can send you unlimited private messages. And you to them. With one exception: group members. Each month, you can write a message to a total of people with whom you share a group. And what about the followers? Well yes, things get a little complicated when the followers come into the picture. Followers are people who choose to follow you, that is, they are interested in the topics you share.
They decide they want to read your posts
Keep in mind that st level contacts are your followers and you are their followers ‘by default’, from the moment you accept the connection. Afterwards, you can unfollow a contact, or them you, and stop seeing their posts. So the France Phone Number List number of your followers is the result of the sum of the people who have decided to follow you, plus your st level contacts who have not stopped following you. And why would a st level contact stop following you? Easy. Because he doesn’t want to see your posts, but he does want to keep the option of communicating with you via private message open. That’s how things are. So what button do you put on your profile? The one to follow or the one to connect? In your settings you can choose which button people who come to your profile will see first. I’ll explain how a little bit below. In the image, you can see that I have follow as main (‘Follow’ in blue). And that ‘Connect’ can be found by displaying the ‘More’ option.
