Are you posting your pitches willy-nilly in every LinkedIn
group you can find?
There are four LinkedIn groups that I help manage on
LinkedIn. One of them is my own group, Marketing Enthusiasts. The other three
are ConnectMe, Seattle Business Network, and Digital Consumer Marketing. We
regularly receive posts from members to be approved and posted in the discussion
threads of our groups.
Some of the posts are educational and informative. Many
of them are just pitches asking us to buy their stuff or donate to their cause.
I will approve the posts, even if there is a slight pitch in them, as long as
they educate and inform us first.
People want to be educated and informed first, before
they will buy from you.
I don't know about you, but when I receive pitch after
pitch from my connections or friends online, LinkedIn or otherwise, I feel like
I have been continually slapped in the face. They make me want to just delete
the messages and avoid them altogether.
What really gets me is that many of them are pitching to
me and I am not even in their target market, nor do I know anyone in my tribe
that is in their target market. Do they not know how to use the groups on
LinkedIn to target who they want to reach?
Inviting me to come to a run for Cancer in Wisconsin is
far from where I am in Edmonton, Alberta.
Yes, I know it is not all about me. It is all about
"them".
All they need to do is conduct a simple Boolean search
for the groups of the people they want to target, and then connect with them.
And yes, there is a way to connect with people without being connected to them
even if you do not have Inmail.
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Christine Till
The Marketing Mentress
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/marketingmentress
www.2csuccess.com
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