Hey, welcome back. In this video, I want to talk to you about some cool little insider techniques you can use with LinkedIn to just, you know, connect with people easier also to, you know, build an email list and spy on your competition too. So, the first thing I wanna talk to you about is we talked about in a previous video, but basically what you want to do is go here to more and go to upgrade your account. Now, there's lots of reasons to upgrade to a LinkedIn account to the business business plus or executive plan. But the biggest reason is because of this in Gmail, okay, and Gmail is really cool because you can directly contact somebody through this email service, and their response is guaranteed here. So for, you know, if you pay annually for 1995 a month, you can email three people per month and that's anybody on LinkedIn.

Okay. So you Hover over this trusted messages you can use to contact anyone. Okay, so anybody that has a LinkedIn profile, if Donald Trump has a LinkedIn profile, you can email Donald Trump directly. So that's pretty awesome. Considering LinkedIn is the biggest professional network on the internet. And they're continuing to grow.

And there's, there's an executive from every fortune 500 company on LinkedIn. This is just a great extra resource you can use to start emailing people directly. If it's somebody that you want to work with, or work for, if you've got a really great idea, and you share the values of somebody. The first thing you can do, like I said before, was have somebody introduce you, that's friends with them. But if you don't have any friends in common, then definitely using this inmail is a great feature of LinkedIn and then you can also see more profiles. You can zero in on profiles, you just get more targeted, but this is the best reason to do so.

If you're wondering if you should be upgrading. If you have somebody that you really want to get in touch with, you don't have any friends in common, nobody can give you an introduction, definitely check out the upgrade in LinkedIn. Another cool thing you can do is you can go to Google and just come here and type in the word site typing colon, LinkedIn and then just put quotation marks and type in any keyword you want. Okay? So let's type in online marketing, and quotation and search. Okay, so down here we see.

Welcome to the company profile, Top Rank online marketing. Let's just click on that, see what that's all about. See, the first thing that pulls up in Google is a competitor company. Okay, so we can go in here and we can check out we can see what They're doing looks like they're, they've got a pre launch even a launch coming up. So this is just a really great way to spy on your competition to see who's in your, in your network. You can also do searches on LinkedIn.

But Google is just a really great way to find people directly on depending on what just based on keyword. Okay, so we got David J. Johansen here and let's check out him. Okay, so he's got his own company are borderline marketing, okay, so we can come in here, see what he's up to get a summary down here. So this is a really great way to figure out, you know, who's in your industry. So if you ever want to benchmark another company or benchmark somebody practices, this is a great way to kind of spy. So the next thing we're talking about is actually using LinkedIn to start building your list for absolutely for free.

So what you can do is come here, go back to your homepage. We didn't really need to do that. Just got a comment. tax. And here once you've built up your network, and you've built up your contacts, and this is why it's good to have groups that you can basically export your contacts. So basically, what you would do is come down here to export connections in the bottom right hand of the screen, click on that, and you could actually export all your contacts into a CSV file, save that to your desktop, and then you could import that into Outlook, you could import this into an email autoresponder that doesn't require that people double opt in, okay, which means that basically some, some email autoresponders don't let you import contacts others do.

So just do a Google search on that and figure out who will. But it's a great way to build your list. I mean, you've got a targeted list, especially if you built a group around a certain subject or a certain interest. Okay, and then you can also go to a place like Hootsuite, and you can actually it's a social media management sites. There's lots of sites like this. This is just an Example.

But you can basically use a site like Hootsuite to import all your contacts into your social media, okay, so you can import into Facebook, Twitter. So it's just a really great way to start building your list for free. And basically, all you have to do is create your LinkedIn profiles, start connecting with people, and then you can import that list into, you know, whatever, whatever platform you want to. Okay, so just a couple cool little tips and tricks you can use. It's kind of the next level stuff and LinkedIn, you know, not not everybody knows about this type of stuff. So in the next module, we're going to talk about how to actually rank in LinkedIn, we're gonna talk about some ranking factors that link and considers and I'm gonna show you how to actually rank your profile in LinkedIn and start showing up in Google search results because not everybody upgrades, not everybody gets, you know, 357 hundred search results.

So it's pretty competitive. You want to make sure that you rank if people are searching for certain subjects that you want to make sure you show up in And that way you're going to have a better chance of connecting with the right people. So thanks for watching this video and I'll see you in the next module.