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How can I get more LinkedIn invitations?I'm a LinkedIn enthusiast and find it a terrific tool for both professional networking and job searches at my (executive) level, but when I come back from face-to-face networking events, I often find that I hit my "outstanding invitation limit" on LinkedIn and can't invite everyone I met to link with me. Why do they have a limit and how to I increase mine? Interesting question indeed. I have a similar post-networking event strategy but must be less popular since I haven't hit any sort of limit, but I asked Duncan Work over at LinkedIn about the entire issue and here's what he shared: Dave, here's an explanation of LinkedIn's policies regarding invitation limits for those who haven't seen them before. Because of complaints from members who were receiving multiple invitations from people they didn't know we now have a default limit of 3000 invitations that a member can send. Before the limit we had a couple of thousand users who regularly sent thousands – or even tens of thousands of invitations – with very low acceptance rates and lots of abuse reports. The limits have helped stop most of that -- but not all. When you get close to the limit and send new invitations you'll see a message on the site telling you that you're close and that you can request more. The best way to request an increase is to login to your LinkedIn account and use the Contact Customer Service form on our site. As with all inquiries to customer service, they give fastest turnaround to paying customers and using the form above will get the quickest response. If you're not a premium account holder your request will still get answered but it could take 2 to 3 days, depending on how busy customer service is. If the positive feedback from the people you've recently invited is high you'll get an increase of 500 additional invitations; and you can request additional invitations 30 days after your limit was last increased. The threshold we use for giving a full increase is first, that the member's recent invitations resulted in acceptance rates that are at least average compared to the norms for LinkedIn members who have sent several hundred or more invitations; and second, that the complaints and abuse reports they've received must also be low compared to the norm. For people who are regularly inviting people who know them or who are inviting self-declared "open-connectors" (people who are open to connecting to most LinkedIn members) this isn't a particularly difficult threshold to get above. If the positive feedback from the people you've invited since your last increase (or recently if a first-time increase) is below the threshold for getting a full increase of 500, you will initially get at least some additional invitations, often 100, so that you can establish a positive feedback score needed to get higher increases. People who repeatedly get below average positive feedback scores may not receive any additional invitations and will then have to wait a longer period before requesting more. You can insure that your acceptance rates stay high by only sending invitations to people who know you, or to people who have indicated that they're open to invitations coming from people they don't know. Instead of using invitations to reach out to new people or others Of course, whenever there are limits, some people will try to get around them. For example a few have tried to get good feedback scores by sending a small number of invitations in a month and following the rules for whom to send them to. Then they hope that they can store No rules are perfect. But by using feedback from the people whom users themselves choose to invite, and by regularly giving increases to people who consistently get good feedback, the system seems to be working fairly well. Thanks for the inside scoop, Duncan. Please note that this material original arose on the My LinkedIn Power Forum discussion group too.
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Tagged: finding a job, job searches, linkedin, professional networking Previous: How do I change my "top friends" in MySpace Profile? Next: How can I add Digg and Del.icio.us links to my blog? Reader Comments To Date: 4Dave Taylor said, on February 26, 2008 10:00 PM:
That would be interesting if it were true. In fact, on the LinkedIn help area, you can find the following Q&A: Q: What if I want to close my basic LinkedIn account and be removed from the system? A: To close your LinkedIn account, email a request to Customer Service. Please include your name and the email address for the account you want to close. The address they link to is: http://www.linkedin.com/feedback?displayContactCustomerServiceFeedback= Bill said, on August 14, 2008 10:16 PM:
Now linkedin is limiting us to 50 groups, AND as of about 10 minutes ago at the end of the day on Aug. 14, 2008, will NOT alow you to use sites like Toplinked and Invites Welcome. Keep limiting us and limiting us and we will ALL quit and Linkedin will be left with a worthless company. Why the hell are they implementing these Communist like rules? tomp said, on June 25, 2010 10:57 AM:
I passed 3K invites over a year ago. Each lock-down, LinkedIn hands out 50 invititations. Wow!...that can be used in one day. Every response from LinkedIn is "make sure you invite ONLY those you KNOW". WHAT? That's what Facebook is for. No solicitation - What do they think business is? They created a great business networking tool, while understand Spam+sales abuses, I do not understand their culture of limiting usage? Hope they evolve quickly until someone replaces them.
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