{"id":987513408,"date":"2025-02-20T12:50:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T12:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storymatters.online\/?p=987513408"},"modified":"2025-02-20T12:50:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T12:50:40","slug":"yes-its-okay-to-knock-on-someones-door-on-linkedin-but-how-to-get-it-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymatters.online\/en\/yes-its-okay-to-knock-on-someones-door-on-linkedin-but-how-to-get-it-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, it&#8217;s okay to knock on someone&#8217;s door on LinkedIn. But how to get it open?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"ember59\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\"><em>Our data show that: <\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"ember60\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">\u2795 If you describe yourself as a boss on LinkedIn, you typically have a higher conversion rate.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember61\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">\u2795 If you are from a well-known company, you usually have a higher conversion rate. (Multilevel companies do not count.)<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember62\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">\u2796 If you describe yourself as a salesperson or recruiter, you usually have a lower conversion rate.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember63\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">\u2796 As a man, you have fewer chances.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember64\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">\u2795 As a woman, you have a higher conversion rate.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember65\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">\u2795 As a profile with a professional photo, you have a higher conversion rate.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember66\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">\u2795 You have a higher conversion rate when addressing the recipient in their native language.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember67\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">\u2795 If you regularly publish relevant professional content, you have a higher conversion rate.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember68\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">\u2796 If you are from a small business, you have lower conversion.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember69\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">\u2795 If your message is highly personalized to the addressee, you have a higher conversion rate.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember70\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">\u2795 If you are from a manufacturing company, you have a higher conversion rate.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember71\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\"><strong>\u2796 You get fewer new connections if you send a request with a message compared to a request without a message. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"ember72\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">And now let us see why you get blocked from LinkedIn for sending &#8220;too many&#8221; connection requests. Now, this is no official information, just know-how from quite a lot of practice: <em>(to be continued in the next newsletter). <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our data show that: \u2795 If you describe yourself as a boss on LinkedIn, you typically have a higher conversion rate. \u2795 If you are from a well-known company, you usually have a higher conversion rate. (Multilevel companies do not count.) \u2796 If you describe yourself as a salesperson or recruiter, you usually have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":987513409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987513408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymatters.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987513408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymatters.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymatters.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymatters.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymatters.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987513408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/storymatters.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987513408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987513416,"href":"https:\/\/storymatters.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987513408\/revisions\/987513416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymatters.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987513409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymatters.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987513408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymatters.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987513408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymatters.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987513408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}