 Hi, this is George Kow. Welcome back to the LinkedIn course. So in this short video I'm going to show you how to add more connections to your LinkedIn profile to your LinkedIn account and the reason why we want to add more Contacts is because the more first-degree contacts you have on your LinkedIn The the higher up use you you land on the search engine for LinkedIn I'll just give you an example, you know advice search. I don't know. I'm just gonna search yoga And so which will see what happens when I search yoga, right and then I click on people to sort by the people Notice that LinkedIn gives me my first-degree connections first now Some of you don't even know well some I get asked a question. What does first-degree connection mean? It means you are directly connected with that person on LinkedIn You have asked to be their LinkedIn connection or they've asked to be yours and one of you has you know They you've asked them and they've approved or they've asked you and you've approved So you become first-degree connections now. What does it mean? So me and Trinity are first-degree connections If Trinity has a friend named Bob and I'm not connected directly with him on LinkedIn He would be my second-degree connection, right and then Bob's LinkedIn connection that is not connected to me would be my third-degree LinkedIn connection So that's what that's how it works And so the more first-degree connections you have the higher you show up in LinkedIn search results because guess what? LinkedIn really prizes. I searched yoga, which is lots of people have the word yoga on their profile and LinkedIn puts my first-degree people first that makes sense. So that's why it's important to be the first-degree contact for as many of your People your friends and colleagues as possible so that you show up whenever they search words that are in your profile somewhere So how do you add more warm? How do you add more connections? So start with the people you already know? So friends colleagues People you've met at events that you want to keep in touch with classmates that kind of thing, right? Business partners previous clients Clients etc. So these are what I call warm contacts warm contacts, and this is the mind map, which I hope you'll Recognize by now. This is a free public mind map. It's available to you In the materials for this course I'll include it in the notes for this video as well So your warm contacts are people who imagine you email somebody you send someone an email message if they Recognize your name right away. They see your email They recognize your name and they feel some kind of a good feeling towards you. That's what I call a warm contact So again friend client previous client colleague previous colleague classmates people you volunteer with You know, etc. Okay, so add as many of your warm contacts as you can on LinkedIn and There's two ways of doing this that I give you here one way is using the people you may know tool I'm gonna go to that next but first Actually, I'm gonna move these the first thing we should do is import contacts. So Let's go and click on here and see where it takes us. Okay, so basically when you When you come here You're going to find that LinkedIn gives you the option to log in to various email accounts You have and if you have a Gmail account You just put your Gmail account in there click continue and the LinkedIn will ask Google We'll ask Google will ask your permission whether LinkedIn can go in there and get your contacts and I would say yes I've done the same thing to my Gmail account. It's perfectly fine And just you know if it and if you have another email software, that's not one of these right? so for example Apple Mac mail you would click any email and then you would You would come down here and you would click on upload contacts file, okay upload contacts file and If you don't know how to create a contacts file, you can click on learn more and there will be some There will be some some links. So for example, if you have a Mac and you're trying to export a contact file from the Mac address book click on here and there here is the The full directions on how to do that, okay? So I hope that's helpful and once you've uploaded the contacts file. So I've actually created you can also Create a spreadsheet and Up and export the spreadsheet as a CSV file CSV stands for comma Separated values you can Google what what CSV means, but you can use a spreadsheet I've actually given an example. This is a Google Drive spreadsheet. By the way, Google Drive is an awesome tool I use it every single day. I love it Google Drive spreadsheet I've just put in some some some of my fake email addresses and actually this isn't a real email address of a very great Business person that I that I know he anyway check out his website website silvers.org So I just put in some some email addresses here, okay, and then I exported it I Let's see here. I Downloaded as a CSV file and I've already I've already done that. It's already on my desktop. So I'm gonna go in here I'm gonna choose the file and I'm going to Okay, let's see here Alright, you're not able to see See my screen here, but I'm gonna I'm gonna choose a file You can't you can't see it, but I just selected the file. That's sample LinkedIn. I click on upload file Okay, and well I want to show you this process because there's a tricky part to it that That some people make a mistake and and it's unfortunate So I'm gonna just kind of show you it does take some time for it to load You guys you can tell even if it was just three email addresses LinkedIn is very busy with hundreds of millions of users and so Okay, so basically Check, okay, this is this is where it's tricky. Okay, pay attention here I just uploaded three email addresses. Okay, and LinkedIn didn't tell me whether this is I don't know why they do this They didn't tell me whether the email addresses I uploaded are You know in LinkedIn, can I connect with just the people I uploaded? It doesn't tell you so what it does do is It says pick up where you left off step two of two These are actually all of the different people That I uploaded in the past These are all the different random email addresses that I uploaded in the past for my gmail and the thing is I don't necessarily want to add them invite them to connect on LinkedIn right because it says add 2000 people select people to network do not do this So here's the key you've got to when you get to step two of twos is pick up where you left off. Here's the key Click on skip this step. Okay skip this step Okay, thanks for searching your contacts come back anytime to find your connections now It's giving me the next the next thing in their process to say do you use outlook email blah blah blah? You don't have to click yes or no here. You can do that later if you want, but what I want to show you now is Go to manage imported contacts. Okay, so so first of all you might say well George How do you get there get here in the future? It's in the the LinkedIn mind map you click on this and It brings you to this screen and click on manage imported contacts. I'm gonna go there Okay, so imported contacts are not people I have invited to connect on LinkedIn yet And the reason why I haven't invited them is because I only want to invite my warm contacts people who invite when I invite them They recognize my name right away. They have some good feelings towards me. Chances are they're gonna say yes to being connected and Oh, I'm so glad that this happened because LinkedIn address book is buggy. It Oftentimes does this kind of thing so I'm gonna go back and Go back to that place where I can find those so I'm gonna click here. I'm gonna click add connections Okay, this is another way to get to this screen. I'm gonna click manage imported contacts again Hopefully the second time that I come here. It'll pull it up But basically once I have so step one was to import as many email addresses as you can Step two was to skip that step right step three is to come into your imported contacts and Manually select the people that you want to invite to connect on LinkedIn. Now. Why is it that gosh LinkedIn? This is this is terrible. I wish it was working properly when I'm doing this video here But even if it doesn't I think you kind of get the idea The reason why I don't just add Thousands of people as a LinkedIn connection is because if enough people say I don't know who George is My LinkedIn account can get suspended and so can yours if you add a bunch of people who don't really know you and who don't Want to connect with you? That's why it's important to add your warm contacts and I can't believe this is happening But that's just the way it is on LinkedIn. This happens to me regularly, but anyway Let's just assume that this was working when you come in here You would see a bunch of contacts you would look for the ones that have an I end symbol a blue in symbol next to their name and And those are the people that already have a LinkedIn account and then you can add them As a LinkedIn connection, I would advise only adding people who already have a LinkedIn account. This is really bad But let me just try one last time see you see the symbol here in okay Let me let me um Yeah, this symbol this I end symbol will be next to some of the names You're gonna see in the imported contacts and I would advise you only to add the people who have an I end symbol If you add people who don't have an in symbol it means that LinkedIn will start to bug them about joining LinkedIn Oh, George has invited you to join LinkedIn and they might not want to join LinkedIn Okay, so only add the people again when you're in the imported contact section only add Only select the people to invite who have an in symbol and who are also your warm contacts So I hope that this is helpful I know this was a little bit confusing due due to LinkedIn not working properly at this time But I hope that I've given you enough of a of a tutorial where when you do this yourself It will make sense and I invite you to to try do that doing this yourself and watch this video again And kind of walk through the process and as always if you have any questions Ask the question in the comment section of this video and I look forward to hearing how Your LinkedIn life improves as a result of this course. So I wish you well