To make the most of your LinkedIn personal brand, you need to:

• Optimize your profile
• Build strong connections
• Post helpful content
• Engage with other users

But all these can consume a large chunk of your time if you don’t have a team or an efficient workflow.

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Tips to save time on LinkedIn

Do you want to minimize the time you spend building your network on LinkedIn without hurting your efficiency?

These ten tips will save you hundreds of hours.

1. Use all 100 connection requests each week

Exhaust your connection requests every week to get as many connections as possible.

The more relevant connections you have, the better your chances of growing your LinkedIn personal brand.

With connections, your brand visibility increases and you get more engagement from your posts.

For better results, send a short, simple message with each connection request.

Used up all your connection requests for the month? Use this hack to unlock more requests.

2. Search for posts you can comment on

Don’t waste your time scrolling aimlessly on your LinkedIn feed. Instead, search using relevant hashtags to discover posts you can engage with. Remember, you’re on LinkedIn to build your brand and expand your audience.

For example, to find posts related to UI/UX design, search for #uiuxdesign and filter by Posts. This brings up all the posts with that hashtag.

Don’t comment on posts for the sake of commenting. Ensure your comment adds value to the reader.

3. Use your free time to comment on posts

Commenting on posts builds your rapport with other LinkedIn users and makes your brand more visible to your target audience.

There’s so much free time wasted unnoticed that you can use to engage with posts on LinkedIn. Comment on posts:

• On the train, bus, or flight
• While waiting for your date to show up at the restaurant
• In the loo
• While waiting for your appointment
• During break periods for your favorite game

4. Have a constant flow of new content to post each day

Create your own content, repurpose your existing content, or curate other people’s content.

Whichever option you choose, showing up daily with content is crucial if you must etch your brand in the mind of your target audience. Posting content at least once daily is the most effective way to attract and engage your audience.

Plan your content ahead of time.

Don’t wait till tomorrow to create tomorrow’s content. For example, you can create a calendar that covers your content for the next three months.

5. Use a tool to automate your Linkedin posts

Scheduling your posts before time helps you post content at optimal times for your audience. For example, if you discover that your ideal audience is always active between 12 pm-3 pm on Fridays, you can schedule your Friday posts at that time to gain maximum reach and engagement.

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Use a scheduling tool like Taplio’s LinkedIn post scheduler to automatically post your content at the right time even when you’re unavailable.

With Taplio’s LinkedIn post scheduler, you can:

• Write, schedule, and publish all your posts
• Preview your posts to see how they’ll appear when posted
• Mention other users in your post
• Automatically message users who interact with your post

6. Outsource your content to a ghostwriter

Sometimes, you can’t meet up with the content demands of your audience. Do you give up and stop creating content altogether? No!

You hire someone else to write content for you.

This saves you time and allows you to focus on your LinkedIn content strategy while your ghostwriter creates the content.

You’ll find talented ghostwriters on freelance platforms like Fiverr, Upwork, or FlexJobs. Make sure whoever you’re outsourcing your content to understands your target audience and brand voice.

7. Use Linkedin Premium

LinkedIn premium is a powerful tool that helps you

• Develop your professional skills with LinkedIn Learning courses
• Grow your network with more connection capabilities
• Find leads more effectively
• Browse other users’ profiles anonymously
• Gain premium job insights to help your job search
• See who viewed your profile
• Find and hire talent faster

LinkedIn Career helps you land your next job for a $29.99 monthly or $239.88 annual fee.

LinkedIn Business gives you detailed business insights to help expand your business. It costs $59.99 per month or $575.88 per year.

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LinkedIn Sales Navigatorexploits the business opportunities on LinkedIn and helps you build better sales pipelines to increase sales. It costs $79.99 per month or $779.88 yearly.

LinkedIn Recruiter Lite helps recruiters find qualified candidates for hire. It costs $119.95 monthly or $1,199.40 annually.

Explore LinkedIn Premium with their one-month free trial to see if LinkedIn Premium is worth it and which plan suits you.

8. Automate your connection requests

Save hundreds of hours every month by automating and personalizing your LinkedIn outreach.

Use a LinkedIn auto-connect tool to

• personalize your connection requests
• and send bulk connection requests to your target audience with a few clicks

Personalized connection requests are more likely to be accepted than generic requests. Also, they prevent your requests from being flagged as spam.

After automating your connection requests you can use tools like Poked to manage your new LinkedIn contacts in the easiest way.

9. Use LinkedIn shortcuts

Hit Control + Enter (or Return on Mac) to send a private message.

Press Tab to shift between the different options and post types while creating a post.

Shortcuts for LinkedIn Recruiter Lite

When viewing a list of candidate profiles in search results, use

• Left and right arrows to view the previous and next user, respectively
• S to save a profile to your pipeline
• H to hide a profile

Shortcuts for LinkedIn Learning

While watching a video, use

• Space bar to play/pause
• M to mute audio
• Up and down arrows to increase and reduce the volume, respectively
• Left and right arrows to skip backward and forward by 10 seconds, respectively
• C to enable/disable closed captioning
• F to make the video full-screen

10. Accept or decline all connection requests at once

Log in to your LinkedIn account and click on the My Network tab on the menu.

In the Invitations section, click on the See all option to view all the connection requests you’ve received.

On the Invitations page, right-click and select the Inspect Element option on your browser to launch Developer Tools.

Switch to the Console tab in Developer Tools.

To accept all the connection requests, paste this code in the area indicated by the red arrow:

var x = document.querySelectorAll(‘button.artdeco-button–secondary’); for (var i=0 ; i<x.length; i++) x[i].click();

To reject all the connection requests, paste this code in the area indicated by the red arrow:

var x = document.querySelectorAll(‘button.artdeco-button–tertiary’); for (var i=0 ; i<x.length; i++) x[i].click();

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