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Fremont: You must have send request to several renowned entrepreneurs and venture capitalists of the industry to connect with you on the professional social media site LinkedIn. But, how many confirmations have you received? Might be a few. Have you ever tried cross checking for the reasons to the denial of the rest?
The busy like bee serial entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists everyday gets a lot of request to get connected, but the default connection request is something what they get annoyed of. Being a complete stranger to them, they do not know anything about you and neither do they have time to go and surf for your profile and know who you are. This creates too many friction points for them to overcome. Finding no reason to get connected with you by reading the default request, they delete it. If you cannot spend few minutes to create a sincere networking request, that too to a complete stranger, then why should they invest their precious time in searching to know who you are?
An incomplete or default request sent does not clarify the reason for them to connect to you and also does not allow them to know if they can be of any help to you and vice-a-versa. It is that these serial entrepreneurs and venture capitalists do delete such requests, but on the way, they too loose some precious contacts unknowingly, which might have been of mutual help to each other to do something big.
Some of the fundamental requisites while drafting the request is not forget to mention how you came to know the person, mention something interesting about yourself, something that might allure the receiver to appreciate you and the differentiating factor that will compel them to accept your request. It is important for them to understand how adding you to their profile can add value to their network. Also, do not forget to mention the reason to get connected with them. There are several others who mark them as a friend or a colleague. This showcases how new and ignorant you are about the site and shows your unprofessionalism.
Whether you are a young professional or a first-time entrepreneur, a professional network presence have become mandatory to grow in the industry. It is one of the easiest and contrary to it, the toughest way to grow in the industry if you miss professionalism. So if you have missed the train, try catching another one, but only after revising the errors and editing them.
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