This document provides tips and tricks for mastering LinkedIn. It outlines hacks for discovering a prospect's interests, hiding your connections from competitors, sorting connections into groups, searching a connection's network for referrals, optimizing your profile for search, finding out a connections' total number, exporting email addresses, messaging non-connections, finding common connections, customizing connection requests on mobile, reorganizing endorsements, viewing profiles in Gmail, and setting up automated lead generation via saved searches.

2. POWER OF LINKEDIN
Sales Prospecting Finding a job
Hiring Networking
Marketing and much more...

3. BUT…!!!
How to master LinkedIn?
What are the hacks that
would help in mastering it?

4. HERE ARE FEW AMAZING HACKS AND
TRICKS FOR YOU TO BE A LINKEDIN PRO

5. Discover What Your
Prospect Is Interested
In

6. 1) Go to a connection’s
profile.
2) Mouse over the arrow
next to the “endorse”
button and click “View
recent activity.”
3) Get a digest of
everything your prospect
has been reading,
sharing, commenting on,
and liking recently.

7. Hide Your Connections
From Prying Eyes (read:
your competition)

8. 1) Hover over your picture
in the upper right
corner, and click
“Privacy & Settings.”
2) Click the “Privacy” tab.
3) Click “Who can see
your connections.”
4) Select “only you.”

9. SORT
CONNECTIONS
INTO GROUPS

10. 1) Visit a connection’s profile.
2) Click “tag” under the
Relationship tag.
3) Tag the connection with a
specific group.
4) Click “manage tags” to edit or
delete existing tags, or “add
new tag” to create new ones.

11. Search a Customer’s
Connections For
Referrals

12. 1) Visit a connection’s profile.
2) Click the number of
connections they have.
3) Click the magnifying glass.
4) Search for potential referrals by
job title or company.

13. Get Found in Search
with Keywords

14. 1) Choose a keyword or two the
people you’re interested in
meeting (prospects, recruiters,
industry leaders, etc.) might
search for.
2) Insert in headline.
3) Insert 3-4 times in summary.
4) Insert anywhere else possible!

15. Find Out
Exactly How
Many
Connections
Someone Has

16. 1) Type in a person’s name in
the top search bar and click
the blue magnifying glass
icon.
2) Click on “500+”
3) Check out the number of
connections in the top left
corner.

17. Export Your
Connections’
Email Addresses

18. 1) Hover over the “My
Network” tab and click
“Connections.”
2) Click the gear icon on the
top right corner.
3) Under “Advanced
Settings” click “Export
LinkedIn Connections.”
4) Choose your file type,
and export.

19. Message People
You’re Not
Connected To
(no InMail required)
Message People
You’re Not
Connected To
(no InMail required)

20. 1) Choose a group you’re
a member of.
2) Click the number of
members under the
group name.
3) Click the envelope icon
next to a member’s
name.

21. Find Prospects You
Already Have
Something in
Common With

22. 1) Enter the URL www.linkedin.com/alumni
2) Click the “change university” dropdown to search any alumni.
3) Filter by industry, location, skills, company, major, and more.

23. Customize Your
Connection Request
on a Mobile Device

24. 1) Click on a person’s
profile.
2) Click on the menu icon
at the top right of the
screen.
3) Click “Personalize
invite.”
4) Personalize your
request.

25. Reorganize Your
Endorsements

26. 1) Click into the edit profile
view.
2) Click the arrow button
next to the “Skills &
Endorsements” section.
3) Drag and drop your skills
into the correct order, and
hit save.

27. View LinkedIn
profile information
in Gmail

28. 1) Download Rapportive.
2) Open Gmail.
3) Rejoice in the fact that ads
have been replaced by the
LinkedIn information of
the person you’re
emailing.

29. Get New Leads
Directly mailed to
You

30. 1) Enter your search specifications and click enter.
2) Click “Save search” in the upper right corner.
3) Set the frequency of how often you want new search results emailed to you.