Killer app for your LinkedIn ID Number

This is one of the best kept secrets to network building there is and I am releasing it to the public. It is one of the ways that the big people got big and continue to outpace their peers.

With the right knowledge, it is possible to create a link or a button that, when someone else clicks on it, they initiate the process to invite you. This builds your network passively (people invite you all the time with no effort from you) and it conserves your valuable, limited invitations. This powerful link (URL really) does all of the following:

• Takes that person to LinkedIn and signs them in
• Does a search and located YOU so you can be invited
• Opens their invitation screen with your name pre-selected
• Shows them your e-mail address which may be needed in some instances

Still, there are a few things that you must know:

1. Your LinkedIn ID number
2. A confirmed E-Mail address associated with your account
3. Correct spelling of your First Name and Last Name on your LinkedIn profile

Seems pretty easy doesn’t it. But wait.

Just how do you find out what your ID number is?  See our prior blog post to find out what your LinkedIn ID number is.  It can look a little like programming at first glance. It really is simple though. Just replace MY information with YOUR information. This then becomes a hyperlink. You can see that my LinkedIn User ID is 125841.

http://www.linkedin.com/inviteFromProfile?from=profile&key=125841&firstName=Mike+O’Neil+-+moneil@integratedalliances.com

An explanation of what you are seeing. 

125841  is the Profile Key, essentially your LinkedIn User ID.  They are sequential so you can see that I was an early adopter of LinkedIn (January 14, 2004).

Mike+O’Neil+-+ is the first name and some extra characters to indicate “and” in the search.

moneil@integratedalliances.com is the e-mail adress.  It does not have to be primary.

This is what it looks like: 

It really isn’t a link you want to show anyone so you want to make it a hyperlink with other text like “Click here” or with a picture or logo.

Try this to see what I mean – Invite Mike

or

Click on the picture at left

or

Purchase a vanity domain name to foward to the link you have created (i.e., http://www.linktomike.com).

Tagged as: Find My Profile, LinkedIn, LinkedIn Network, Network Building, URL