80% of you replied…

I’ve been lazy…

In the past, I always welcomed my new LinkedIn connections with a clever message.

For the past year, I’ve been too lazy to cut and paste my message.

I don’t know why I was too lazy to send the message.

The other day I was teaching LinkedIn to a mastermind group, and I showed them my welcome message.

They loved my welcome message and asked if they could borrow it.

Of course, I said yes.

Yesterday I decided to dust off the old welcome message and send it to recent LinkedIn connections.

I sent my welcome message to 40 new LinkedIn connections on Wednesday morning.

As I write this email, 80% of my new connections replied within 36 hours.

80% response rate for one cut and paste message (I actually use TextExpander to paste the messages).

I spent about 15 minutes pasting the welcome message.

And I have over 30 conversations going with new LinkedIn connections.

Here’s one of the responses:

Thanks Ted! Something interesting…I actually don’t mind cold calling and embrace it, as an add on to LinkedIn. Love the content, thanks for everything!