How Is Your Request Being Perceived? Top Seven Questions About You And The Communications You Send
If you use just one approach to inviting people to your Linkedin network, will all types of people in your network perceive your invitation the same way? Will one type of invitation work for everyone you know??
If you target C-Level Executives, how will the presence (or absence) of your email address in the name field be perceived? Are you certain that you're not losing business with it? If so, prove it.
If you forward a job you have posted on Linkedin, how will it be perceived by professionals who have little, if anything, in common with the job you're forwarding to them?
If you are wishing to win business by being endorsed, are you perceived as under-endorsed, over-endorsed, or endorsed "just right" (to paraphrase Cinderella).
If it is obvious to the receiver of your invitation that it was important to you to put the most minimal effort in the invitation you're sending them, how do you think your invitation will be perceived? Do you think it will get you the business results you're seeking - without your investing quality time in your invitation? (Build a great invitation or two - and reuse it with a little imagination, a little creativity.)
If you haven't spoken to a connection in over a year, how do you think your request for assistance will now be perceived after a year of not talking with one another?
If you have never worked with someone, how do you think your request for an endorsement will be perceived? Has anyone ever endorsed you without knowing you or, at least, knowing your work product?
It's the perception, it's the empathy that matters.
Keywords: MyLinkedinPowerForum, Vincent Wright, Linkedin
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