LinkedIn & How to rapidly expand your network

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Sorting by Connections through Advanced Search is a very useful feature that can be utilized in LinkedIn to get a list of the top 10-100 most connected people in a particular country, region, group of countries, industry, groups, professions, …etc.

Here are some examples of the top most connected members in Saudi Arabia / Egypt / the Middle East / Australia / the SAP industry in the Middle East & worldwide, where I am listed as:

• #1 Most Connected in Saudi Arabia (along with Egypt and other countries in the middle east like, UAE, Palestine, Turkey, Qatar, Bahrain, Lebanon, Kuwait, Jordan, Oman, Iraq, Iran, Yemen)
• #3 Most Connected in Australia (or in Australia & Saudi Arabia, had I changed my location back to Australia)
• #4 Most Connected in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE, Palestine, Turkey, Qatar, Bahrain, Lebanon, Kuwait, Jordan, Oman, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Israel)
• #1 Most Connected SAP professional in the Middle East (where SAP is shown in the Title)
• #3 Most Connected SAP professionals World Wide 

last updated 2010-06

Such searches can make it easier to target getting in touch with or connecting with the Top Most Connected people in a particular country or industry. You can filter further your lists by selecting further selection criteria.

Below for example are some of my lists I personally use to connect with what I would call the (Safe To Invite) lists which are similar to the searches above but with the filter of restricting the search for members who belong to at least one of the largest LION groups “TopLinked.com (Open Networkers), OpenNetworker.com, LION500.com (Open Networkers)” Such members often accept all invitations or at least welcome invitations (as in may archive an invitation request but should never mark a connection as “I Don’t Know” which can work against you and restrict you to not being able to invite members unless if you enter their email addresses):

Most Connected TopLinked / LIONs (LinkedIn Open Networkers):

• in Saudi Arabia
• in Egypt
• in Saudi Arabia & Egypt
• in Australia 
• in Australia & Saudi Arabia
• in the Middle East
• SAP Professionals in Middle East
• SAP Professionals WorldWide

Important Tips to rapidly expand your network:

• Join the TopLinked (Open Networkers) group along with OpenNetworker.com, LION500.com (Open Networkers), the first 3 groups listed when you search for LION at Groups
• Keep an eye for the TopLinked Invite Me List that gets sent every Tuesday night
• Import that list to your LinkedIn connections
• Follow the steps to send them all invitations at once (This will allow you send approximately 2,000 invitations at once. 1,500 of them are likely to accept them within a week or so)
• You can also add yourself to that list when you subscribe for a premium membership through OpenNetworker for $9.95/month or $49.95/year

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Ehab Elagaty

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