LinkedIn Invitation Filtering: What NOT To Do

As you’re searching through some of your groups, you happen upon an old college friend.  

You lost track of him years ago and are pleasantly surprised to find him on LinkedIn.

You click “Add Christopher to your network” and you see the screen at the right.  

Oh the frustration!  How am I going to know his email address if I haven’t seen him in years!

"Nah, that's too much work, I don't need to pass along that lead to him."

It makes it pretty difficult to reconnect. Now, what happens if you meet someone and they’re looking for a product or service, and you know just the person in one of your groups who does EXACTLY what they’re looking for.

​ You click the “Add Christopher to your network” to contact him and Voilà!  Turns out you where trying to do a good deed, but looks like that business is going somewhere else…. and it’s all because of the settings are closed down.

Here's how your fist it and get more business!