Did you know that when someone takes the time to customize their message when inviting you to connect you might not get to see it!
And for all you know they could be;
- Asking for your help
- Enquiring about your business
- Asking you to tender for their business
- Explaining that a mutual contact referred you to them
- Offering you a job
- Even sending you an order!
Whatever the reason, you really need to see the message. In addition, assuming you accept their connection you really ought to reply to them – it’s professional, courteous and a great opportunity for engagement.
This video explains what to do…….and it’s not that obvious!
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Greetings Mark – thank you for this quick little info video on the messaging changes. I was wondering – have you been able to find any way of “retrieving” the initial invitation message if you got a little “click-happy” and clicked on ‘accept’ for the invitation (in this case, from my on-line students), but failed to hover over the ” in the invitation box to see if they in fact personalized their invitation. I’ve tried to do some digging on own and thought to chat you up to see if you’ve found out anymore on how the messaging impacts the invitations. With Gratitude!
Great question Erica and I wish I had a great answer! Unfortunately this facility is not available……It should be but I assume it’s not something LinkedIn have considered. Suggest you contact them and ask for it as a feature upgrade.