Getting More Meetings from 1st Degree Connections

Okay, so now I'm going to show you the simplest way to reactivate your current LinkedIn network.

your current LinkedIn connections are called your first connections.

And I'll show you how you can do that.

For example, on my profile right now I have.

How many connections do I have?

Let's see.

So I have 9461.

I think I have like 4,000 more followers.

So probably like no, like a couple thousand more followers.

So 11,500 or something.

But how do you use your current LinkedIn network?

You will go to the search function and you will just type down.

Let's say I want to talk with that's it.

Like just anybody that's called a recruiter.

Okay.

It, recruiter, you will go to people.

So click people.

This will bring all the people that that LinkedIn can find in the search.

Then you will hit this first icon.

This means you're only looking at your current first level connections now.

And by the way, for this you don't need sales nav in the, in the next step, I will recommend you get a sales now.

But if you don't have it and you want to test out if the strategies I'm teaching work, feel free to use your free LinkedIn.

Build a search like this.

Go.

Click first Connections.

And now I have, I have a lot of first like recruiters.

I cannot see an exact number, but this is probably a couple hundred, a couple thousand at least.

Let's say I only want people in the uk.

Okay.

Now it has recruiters that are in my network first connections and that are in the uk.

Let's say that is my only search.

I will copy this.

Or maybe it's just like a long list.

Let me just tailor it down to Manchester for example.

So it's a, it's a smaller Yep.

Okay, now it's only a few people because I want to work with smaller data sets.

It's just easier to, narrate and show you guys.

You will copy this link, copy this URL.

And now I want you to sign up to a tool called heyreach.

This is what it looks like.

I've put in a link here.

you can click this link and it will take you to Heyreach sign up.

It's my favorite, LinkedIn outbound tool.

Works really well.

I am well connected with the founding team as well and their support is top notch.

yeah, you can use it with all these other tools as well.

And I would recommend that you sign up to this package with a discount code, you can get it down to I think 55 or 59.

I've added the discount code here as well.

If it doesn't work, let me know.

I can get you guys a new one.

so what will you do once you sign up to Heyreach and you connect your LinkedIn account, which is all like super basic.

If it doesn't work, just download the chrome extension and connect it.

Once that is done, this just may take you five minutes to do.

It's free for 14 days.

You have LinkedIn already.

Just take action on this.

You don't even need to spend any money.

Here's the next step you need to do after we copy this link.

So if you remember, copy this link where you built a search, come here into leads, click Add leads and say I want to bring in leads from LinkedIn search bar.

Find extract companies from LinkedIn.

No, just the basic LinkedIn search bar.

You will continue.

You will say this is first connection recruiter, sender is me here you put the URL that you copied and you will say start import.

And now it will import all of these people into heyreach and they would be ready to reach out to.

So as it does this, let me show you what we're going to show, what we will say to these people in, in the messages.

So I prepared this simple three step messaging sequence.

And since these people are connected, some of them may know you, some you may meet.

And now you're trying to reach out to them at scale.

Unless you want to sit and you know, write a custom one liner for each person and then upload it into heyreach.

The easiest way is keep it slightly generic, keep it look like, make it sound like it's just going out to that you want to talk to.

So you would say here.

Hope you've been keeping well.

I'm working on a new project at the intersection of AI and recruiting.

Still early, but I'm speaking with experienced folks in my network to get feedback and perspective.

So you're calling them an experienced person.

You can also call them a thought leader if you want here.

and honestly, if they're connected with you, they will respond.

I'm not saying let's get on a call in the first message.

I'm saying should I shoot a short loom video?

This is way lesser.

less effort from them and they're more open.

I've tested this for almost two years now.

And then when they say yes, you will shoot a loom video and then you'll ask for a call.

If they don't respond, this message goes out telling them more about it.

and then asking for a call.

In this one, it's better like this.

And then finally, it's just a final follow up.

You can play with this.

This is just a template I'm giving you which has worked for me.

Feel free to tweak things.

Feel free to say what would work in your network.

I've already tailored it to recruiters and I've already said that you're working with A.I.

and recruiting, which is usually a hot topic and people want to talk about it.

So now how will we plug in this sequence into Hadish?

Now?

Okay, we have this list ready.

It's called first connection Recruiters.

Now you will go to campaigns, you will say start new campaign and you will say first connections recruiter.

I'm calling this reactivating your first connections because they're just sitting there.

All of us have like thousands of connections just sitting there, not talking to us.

They match our ICP and I want you guys to start there.

So what you will do is add action.

So we are already connected with these guys.

There's no point in sending connection request.

You will just set up a campaign with simple three messages.

So, hey, first name.

Hope you've been keeping well.

And then here below it asks for a fallback, which means if the variables are not available, what is it supposed to say?

So just remove the variable, paste the same message.

This can only happen in some cases where let's say the company name is enlisted.

So if it doesn't find the company name, it needs to fall back.

then I will wait maybe two days I will put the second message.

And by the way, this also you can find in the Playbook message sequencing template.

You can see this sequence as well as the one for the next step here in this document.

Send message.

put in this message, it look like this.

Save.

And then finally I will wait for three days, add delay later, Save.

Change the delay to and within one week.

If you have a list of.

Let's say, we did something wrong.

crap.

Okay, I need to fix this.

So I sent a message here and then this one I left empty by mistake.

So save.

After one day you send this one.

And then after three days you to send this one.

I apologize if this is confusing.

I will just show you, what I'm doing here in a minute I will explain it.

So I just skipped one step.

Like I added one message and I didn't populate it.

It was giving an error.

So I will delete this one.

Now I will click end.

And now message one is this.

After one day, this is message two.

And after three days message three.

And this will only run if there is no reply yet.

It will keep sending the next message.

If they reply, it just stops automatically.

This is the rule with most automation tools.

It's very simple.

You will click continue and your campaign is now launched.

So this may take you anywhere between 15 to 20 minutes if you are slightly tech savvy, maybe half hour.

If you do not know how to use these tools before, I will just turn this off now.

But yeah, this is the simplest use case of how you can reactivate, your first degree connections.

Try to book meetings and you can validate any idea.

This cannot just be for what you sell.

It can be for a new offer that you're working on.

It's actually better if you, if you're adding a new layer to your offering and now you're like, hey, I want your feedback.

Because people love to jump on calls and talk about themselves and tell you their opinion.

And then eventually you could ask them, hey, what's.

So what are you hiding these right now?

You know, how are you guys filling positions?

You have an ads system.

Are you using AI?

So conversations is the goal here.

It's not just closing deals.

You will build more conversations and a better pipeline and eventually that will bring deals.

So yeah, that's the first degree list activation.

feel free to subscribe to the newsletter or if you want to join our community, book in a call.

Thank you.