13 Strategies to Improve the Loyalty of Existing Connections on LinkedIn

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There’s a definite disparity between the size of your network and the quality of your network connections during a job search. Although the numbers don’t lie, they can be quite misleading.

Focusing on improving the quality of your network connections by as little as 5 percent can increase your results by as much as 95 percent. Furthermore, you’ll spend five times less time networking on LinkedIn; the response rates will be higher because you’re messaging existing connections, and the conversations will be much less nerve-racking; most of the times we can even ask a shared contact for an introduction.

Why, then, do 90% of job seekers focus primarily on adding new people to their LinkedIn, without having a clear goal and detailed plan?