{"id":5337,"date":"2014-02-22T18:24:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T18:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/?p=5337"},"modified":"2014-12-20T17:42:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T17:42:34","slug":"important-advice-for-reaching-out-via-linkedin-and-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/important-advice-for-reaching-out-via-linkedin-and-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Important Advice for Reaching Out via LinkedIn and Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little advice for people here using LinkedIn and Facebook, more of a very strong suggestion\u2026 stop sending out invites without a personalized note, and best if that note offers a reason you want to connect.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Just saying people\u2026\u00a0<em>it\u2019s all about building relationships, not just being connected, and the first step of that relationship is the introduction\u2026 especially if we have never met!<\/em><\/strong><a title=\"Show less\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/nhome\/updates?topic=5840609075788144640&amp;trk=eml_comment_UNIU_view_update&amp;ut=3Y0RXrGjRWaS81#\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"pin_images_1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tedrubin.com\/?p=4636\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-02-19 at 3.48.32 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/tedrubin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-19-at-3.48.32-PM.png\" width=\"999\" height=\"461\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"pin_images_2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tedrubin.com\/?p=4636\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-02-19 at 3.48.50 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/tedrubin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-19-at-3.48.50-PM.png\" width=\"975\" height=\"458\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"pin_images_3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tedrubin.com\/?p=4636\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-02-19 at 3.49.04 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/tedrubin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-19-at-3.49.04-PM.png\" width=\"914\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"pin_images_4\"><a id=\"irc_mil\" href=\"http:\/\/tedrubin.com\/?p=4636\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abmuku.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Linkedin-Facebook-logos.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little advice for people here using LinkedIn and Facebook, more of a very strong suggestion\u2026 stop sending out invites without a personalized note, and best if that note offers a reason you want to connect. Just saying people\u2026\u00a0it\u2019s all about building relationships, not just being connected, and the first step of that relationship is &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/important-advice-for-reaching-out-via-linkedin-and-facebook\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,7],"tags":[1370,1458,393,358,30,3],"class_list":["post-5337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-tedrubin","tag-ronr","tag-tedrubin-2","tag-facebook","tag-relationships","tag-social-media","tag-ted-rubin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5338,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5337\/revisions\/5338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}