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– The DM’s are not a place to create your own little brag book about all the professional accomplishments you’ve racked up. Don’t use the DMs to show how interesting you are.Circle back with your DM’d connection sparingly to avoid being ignored or blocked permanently. With little way to organize messages and priorities, putting time-sensitive in your DM is not a great idea. Don’t bombard your connection with repeated requests for responses – LinkedIn DMs are clunky, and messages get lost frequently.Leave the sales information for the follow-up email and the LinkedIn DMs to nurture the budding relationship. If a connection leads to a potential sale, then it’ll be time to move the dialogue away from the platform and into another medium. They come to LinkedIn to learn and connect. Most LinkedIn users are not on the platform to buy products and services. Don’t sell – Even though you’ve moved a prospect out of the home feed and into the DMs, the DMs are not a place to sell your product.Your audience also has very limited ways of filing and categorizing your message, making it easy to lose track of in the DMs. Creating long-winded data-heavy messages will likely be ignored or skimmed by your intended audience. Don’t clutter with rich data – Brevity is key to the success of your LinkedIn DMs.Continue to nurture the relationship in the home feed – Although you’ve moved the conversation into a more private DM thread, continuing to engage and interact with your connection’s content in the home feed will help keep your DM and conversation top-of-mind with your connection.Ask intelligent questions and show your connection how interested you are in them, versus showing them how interesting you are (this gem from my good LinkedIn friend Roy Kowarski). The ultimate goal of meeting someone on LinkedIn is so that you can meet them off of the platform, and into email, telephone, Zoom or in-person meetings. It is not meant as the final stop in your relationship’s communication timeline. Use it to continue to build the relationship – The direct message is meant to be a way to continue the relationship further down any potential paths to purchase or collaboration.Video allows you to “speak” right to your audience member, and ramp up that “know, like and trust” factor with your eye contact, your smile and your message. Video – filming a short video and uploading it from your phone is one of the best ways to use a DM and set yourself apart.You can also communicate larger pieces of information via audio. Audio – an audio clip of 60 seconds can be sent via your mobile phone this can elevate the “know, like and trust” factor as they hear your voice.Sending a DM via your mobile phone, however, gives you a few more options that could set you apart from all the other DMs in one’s inbox: Set yourself apart with video and audio – The traditional LinkedIn DM sent via your desktop computer gives you the opportunity to send a type-written message and include a picture, giphy, or emoji.Consider the DM like an extension of a text message to relay brief pieces of information, including those that build the “know, like and trust” factor with your intended audience. Be brief – Because a LinkedIn DM cannot be catalogued, filtered, and saved like an email message, brevity will be key for your message to stick.
DMs are not seen as invasive as email, so it’s a gentle way to communicate privately with connections, collaborators, clients and prospects.
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Knowing when to DM and how to craft your direct message should be taken with care to ensure your intended outcome of strengthening the LinkedIn relationship is achieved. It’s also where you could take a budding positive connection, and potentially turn it into an unsubscribe or block very quickly… It’s a unique opportunity to personalize your communications, and create a stronger “know, like and trust” factor with your clients. On LinkedIn, while the feature and opportunity to send a direct message to someone exists, the way you send your direct message can make or break the relationship you’re building on the platform. LinkedIn, the world’s most popular B2B business platform, also has the feature to direct message, or DM, between connections.ĭirect messaging on social media serves a number of purposes, and many say it is replacing email as a safe place to communicate directly with someone via social media. “Send me a DM!” It’s a new phrase in our modern vocabulary that is recognized by social media users regardless of the platform.
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