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Are you looking for a smarter way to stay in touch with your most important business relationships?
What if you could store all of your contacts in one place?
Well now you can with LinkedIn Contacts.
In this article, youâll discover how LinkedIn Contacts looks and take a tour through its features.
What is LinkedIn Contacts?
LinkedIn announced the new LinkedIn Contacts in April.
This new feature brings together all your address books, emails and calendars, and keeps them up to date in one place.
From these sources, LinkedIn will automatically pull in the details of your past conversations and meetings, and bring those details directly into your contactâs profile.
Contacts hasnât been rolled out to everyone yet, so you may have to check back later or join the waitlist.
To see if you have this new feature, click on Contacts in the top navigation. If youâve been given access to the new functionality, it will look like the screenshot below.
Manage Your Network With LinkedIn Contacts
From the front page of Contacts, you can easily add tags and hide or remove a connection entirely.
Sync Your Contacts and Calendars
You can sync your email contacts from inside LinkedIn, as well as from Gmail, Google Contacts, Yahoo! Mail & Contacts, Outlook Mail and Contacts and the iPhone Address Book. Calendars from Google, Yahoo! and Outlook are also available for syncing. After the initial sync, the files update once a day to keep everything current.
If you have trouble with the sync function, thereâs also an option to import everything. The thing to remember is that if you import, you will need to do an import again at some time in the future to catch your latest email contacts when needed.
Refresh your browser and click on Contacts to start exploring.
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Send Congratulations Updates
From the left-hand navigation, click on Your Day and youâll find that itâs much easier to see who has good news to share.
This section will alert you to career changes and birthdays in your network, which provides a perfect opportunity to stay in touch with a quick message.
Look for the cake icon to wish people a happy birthday, and congratulate a colleague on a new position or job when you see the briefcase icon.
New Search Functionality
Over on the left side of your screen is the new contacts Search functionality. There are several sorting parameters to choose from, including Connections, Saved, Tags, Companies, Titles, Locations, Sources, Potential Merges and Hidden.
You can sort your contacts by several criteria: where they came from, whether they were imported into LinkedIn some time ago, by the Outlook contacts youâve recently added and also by any apps you may use such as CardMunch.
The image below shows an extra filter functionality thatâs now available to sort your connections by a variety of options.
Click on Recent Conversation to see whom you last chatted with on LinkedIn or reconnect with someone you havenât interacted with in some time by clicking on Lost Touch.
Map Your Connections
Do you want to meet up with potential clients in the city you are visiting next month? Or would you like to find out whoâs near you today?
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CLICK TO LEARN MORESometimes youâll want to know where your contacts are located. The Locations option, in the left navigation of your screen, pops up a handy map that shows you the geographic locations of your connections.
Curate Information on a Connectionâs Profile
Letâs talk about whatâs new over on LinkedIn profiles.
Now, when you click on the profile of your first-degree connections or people you have sent an InMail to, youâll see more information about your past correspondence and relationship with them.
There are several places to make notes and keep helpful details. What you enter is not publicly viewable, so you can write as much as you need to.
The Relationship tab is especially robust.
Set Reminders to Stay Connected
Do you need some contact management help? LinkedIn now makes it easy for you to stay connected.
Create a Reminder and set it to alert you in one day, one week, one month or to recur. Type in what you need to remember and choose the option that best applies.
This function helps streamline tasks that are related to your connections.
Store Relationship Details
Store the details of how, when and where you met your connection and who, if anyone, introduced you.
This is especially useful when you’re following up with a new connection. You may want to mention specific details or someoneâs name that you both have in common to help set the right context with the person youâre contacting.
View Your Messages
LinkedIn Contacts makes it easy to manage your networking activities.
If youâve exchanged messages or an InMail with a connection, a copy of the first few sentences of the latest conversation will be on display to refresh your memory. Click on the subject line to read the whole message.
Share Your Calendar for Better Event Networking
When you import or sync your calendars, shared calendar events are also shown. The image below shows a Rotary Changeover event that both my connection and I are attending. Itâs easy for me to use this information to create a Reminder to find him at the event.
Itâs interesting to note that in the image above, the tags are clearly labeled along the top but they were not on his profile. This is because this is a second-degree connection.
Go Mobile
You can also stay connected on the go. LinkedIn Contacts is available as a standalone app for iPhone for U.S. users, so you can stay in touch with your contacts wherever you work.
With all of these new features, you might want to expand your LinkedIn marketing tactics and take full advantage of them thanks to the mobile option.
Your Turn
The new Contacts feature from LinkedIn creates an easy-to-manage, all-in-one interface for your email databases and LinkedIn connections.
Will this become your contact management tool of preference?
What do you think? Have you tried using Contacts yet? What do you find most helpful? What else would you like LinkedIn to add? Leave your questions and comments in the box below.
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