How To Ensure Your LinkedIn Requests Are Accepted

Using social media can be an important way to reach out to donors, board members, and potential fundraisers, and knowing how to use LinkedIn can be an especially effective way to broaden your organization’s network. Here’s one of Marc Halpert’s 10 tips on how to get the most from LinkedIn.

Ask people to join your LinkedIn network like you mean it, by using a personalized note that leverages a recent meeting, phone conversation, or other connection. Instead of the impersonal default message “I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn,” try something like this: "Bob, thank you for the great conversation after today’s AFP luncheon about ways we could work with each other. I would really like you to be a part of my LinkedIn network so that we can both increase each other’s fundraising connections. Best regards and speak to you soon about those items I promised, Marc."

See the rest of Marc’s tips here.