Leads from LinkedIn: add your email opt in
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New to The VIP List? Then you might not know that I loooove LinkedIn.
Honestly, I think that it’s the most effective social network for building your business as a leader and expert.
Today I’m rolling out a stealth play that you can use to grow your list of email or blog subscribers using LinkedIn.
Add your email opt in to your LinkedIn profile.
LinkedIn gives you the ability to add and edit different sections on your profile, including a section called Projects. Few LinkedIn users feature projects on their profiles at all, let alone use it gain fans for their business.
Here’s how to make it happen:
1. Go to your LinkedIn profile. At the menu, click on Profile > Edit Profile.
2. If you don’t already have the section titled Projects on your profile, you’ll see a menu of new sections to add to your profile, displayed on the right part of the screen.
(Hint: Look for the big “Recommended for You” headline with arrow.)
If you already have the Projects section on your profile, you’ll go directly to that section and click on the Add+ button.
3. Follow the prompts.
Answer the series of questions that LinkedIn asks to create a clickable headline for your “project.” This might be your newsletter title, or your irresistible free offer.
Because it’s not obvious that the title is a link, give people an extra call to action to click, like I did:
Voila! Super easy, right?
Now you’re using more of your web “real estate” to gain subscribers to your valuable and fantastic content. Well done, you!
Wow – that is so fabulous! I just followed your instructions and, after creating then moving that project up to the top of my profile, I now have my opt-in highly visible and ready for a whole new audience on Linked-in! Thank you so much for that. I’m just amazed at how simple that was.
I am delighted, Michelle.
Ooohhhh! Great tip, Lori! I don’t have an opt-in yet, but when I do I will definitely do this. I thought I knew LinkedIn pretty well but never knew about this before. Excellent post! And you made it so easy – thanks!
Yes, do it, Suzanne! You’ve got really valuable information to share.
Omg Lori! You know how awesome you are right? You provide such amazing information… I can’t even imagine the value you offer your clients.,!
Kelly, Kelly, you should give pep talks professionally!
You astound me. You always have such great, ready-to-use tips. And this one! Wow, I had no idea. Thank you so much for sharing your genius!
Thanks so much, Nancy!
Lori! This was soooo helpful! You make what looks hard, very easy to implement right away – you take the fear away. Thank you!!! I was so inspired I actually added a video to my LinkedIn profile – I never would have known had you not told me about the “projects” tab!!! Thanks again, such great value you provide!
Look at you, Sandi! Awesome job,sister!
Now, that is so simple and easy and awesome…….thank you!
This is brilliant. I’m off to do this now. Thank you. Thank you.
This is BRILLIANT Lori! I don’t use LinkedIn that much, other than to add people I’ve met via networking. But this is an awesome tool!
Thanks so much for sharing – can’t wait to use this!
I’d think that LinkedIn would be pretty important for what you do, Sarada. I hope it helps!
How to Get Leads from LinkedIn: add your email opt in…
I think that LinkedIn is the most effective social network for building your business as a leader and expert. Today, I’m sharing a stealth play that you can use to grow your list of email or blog subscribers using LinkedIn: add your email opt in to yo…
Linkedin is really very good and effective in building any business. However, there are many other social networking sites out there and, we just need to focus on few of them to avoid confusion. I’ve not heard of this email feature before but, I will give it a shot. Thanks for sharing this with the bizsugar community.
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Great advice for enhancing your profile, but it’s a bit static. I’m trying to figure out how to easily add an opt-in connection to a post. Can one do this without paying LinkedIn for Sponsoring anything?
Kira,
Yes, if you are publishing posts on LinkedIn’s Pulse, you can add an optin. I’ve done it on my LinkedIn posts. Just add a link to your website’s optin form.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/21-ways-find-speaking-opportunities-lori-byron?trk=prof-post
Good luck!