Personalised Templates on Linkedin

A connection of mine, John McGowan had a great question, the other day.

This is what John asked:

"At the bottom of the invitation screen where you put a personal note, is it possible to modify permanently the verbiage "I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn."?
I like to personalize it a little more, but have it default to that instead of having to retype or cut and paste all the time.
Thanks for your help!

I have to tell you, that the short answer is no.

"Unfortunately this functionality is not currently available within our messaging system on LinkedIn however I can definitely see the need for it and appreciate you taking the time to provide your feedback! I will forward on to the correct team here at LinkedIn! In the meantime, stay tuned to our blog (Linkedin blog - Tamas BANKI), when we release new products/features, we'll update there first! Thanks!

As Amber Lujan told in Mar 21, 2013.


Since then, nothing has happened.

BUT there is a longer answer I know and I do, is that you can have an "automatized learned instinct", what I mean with it, is that you can have/create Personalised Template letters.

When ever I see someone saw my Linkedin Profile, not in my network, I send that person a personalized template letter.

Template:I wrote the frame text, I personalize, if there is a topic I can add.

Personalize:if I see some interesting point on his profile, I react on that.

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As I read somewhere the only place on LinkedIn where the member has a possibility to create a personalized invitation message is when the member views the Profile of another member and clicks on the Connect button/link, or when one is viewed and finds the viewer on Who's viewed your profile. When the invitation dialogue screen displays the member can create a custom invitation message (or copy in from Notepad or any other text composer).

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Other Templates, Linkedin provides:

If you own or manage a Group, you can have 4 different Templates:

• Request-to-join Message, Welcome Message, Decline Message, Decline-and-Block Message
• You can write weekly an Announcement (also known as: electronic direct mail [eDM] or newsletter) up to 100,000 group members (you might have 20 subgroups, where you can write weekly announcements too)

If you have a Recruiter account, you can also send templates.Contact candidates through InMail ® – LinkedIn’s trusted messaging environment. Work more efficiently with InMail message templates and one to many InMails. Get higher response rates than cold calling and email.

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Sending messages to 1 or more contacts via Linkedin or your email provider:To send a message from your Contacts page:

1. Move your cursor over Connections at the top of your homepage and select Keep in Touch.
2. Find the person you want to send a message to and move your cursor over their information.
3. Click the Message link that appears under their name.

Note: If the contact you've selected are synced from an email account, you may have the option to select Send via LinkedIn Message or Send via…(email provider).


To send message to up to 50 of your connections on Linkedin (5. is about a kind of Template option):
To send a message to one or more connections from your inbox:

1. Click theInbox icon at the top of your homepage.
2. Click New on the left.
3. Type your connection's first or last name in the Tofield. You can add up to 50 recipients.
   • To browse a list of connections to whom you'd like to send a message, follow the instructions below on sending a message from the Contacts page instead.
4. Enter a subject in the Subject field and type your message in the large text box.
5. Optional: Uncheck the box next to"Allow recipients to see each other's names and email addresses" if you're writing to more than 1 person and you don't want them to see one another's information.
6. Click Send Message.

You can send Group message to Multiple connections from your Contacts page on Linkedin:

1. Move your cursor over Connections at the top of your homepage and select Keep in Touch.
2. Click Filter by and select Connections Only. You can also filter byCompany, Tag, Location, Title, and Source.
3. Check the boxes next to the connections you'd like to send a message to.
   
   Note: You can send a message to up to 50 connections at a time (
   so you can send as many times 50, as you wish - Tamas BANKI, DrLinkedin).
4. Click the Message link above the list of contacts.
5. Enter a subject and write your message.
6. Optional: Uncheck the box next to "Allow recipients to see each other's names and email addresses" if you are writing to more than 1 person and you don't want them to see one another's information.
7. Click Send Message.

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BIO:
@TamasBANKI is a Linkedin Expert (@DrLinkedin). Joined Linkedin in 2007 and helped over 1700 professionals and students with Linkedin.