Social Hack #1 : “Lists”



I joined an open networking group on LinkedIn a few back to build my contact list.  You guys are probably familiar with the group called the LION’s (LinkedIn Open Networkers).  While I was receiving a stead flow of invites it would have taken me months to expand my network to the point I was looking for. I would only receive about 10 invites a day plus anyone else I would manually invite, which wasn’t nearly enough to reach the levels of the top networkers.

Instead of soliciting people to send me invitations at the discussion board ( which is considered normal activity) , with the average message of : I accept all invites @ xyz.com.  Instead decided to post this message:

Let’s create a list of people who want to recieve a huge amount of invites.

Although I had a slight idea of what I aiming with my word choice.  I could have never imagined the results.  Within a day my network grew 200 people. This was about 2 weeks ago.  To this day people are still adding their name to that list.  Wierd huh?  I’m testing this out at other networks and hopefully I can put together some coherent thoughts on my findings.

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