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Benefitting from LinkedIn super-connectors
Benefitting from LinkedIn super-connectors

Find your next lead by extracting the networks of your first-degree connections.

Alyssa Theodore avatar
Written by Alyssa Theodore
Updated this week

If you haven't made a habit of asking your current and past clients to connect with you on LinkedIn, now is the time to start. Why?

This video shows you how KnowledgeNet.ai makes it easy to collect, view, and sort the thousands of connections belonging to the people most likely to recommend your products and services.

Here's the step-by-step:

  1. Go to LinkedIn.com and open the "My Network" tab (https://www.linkedin.com/mynetwork/grow/).

  2. Click the down arrow next to where it says "Manage my network," then click your "Connections" link.

  3. Find the first-degree connection whose network you'd like to explore. Then click on their name to open their profile page.

  4. Click on their connection count to open a list of their connections. NOTE: If the connection count is greyed-out and not clickable, the person has disabled the permission that gives first-degree connections these viewing privileges. KnowledgeNet.ai will not circumvent this setting.

  5. Once the connections list loads, open the KnowledgeNet.ai browser extension on the right side of your screen.

  6. Click the blue "Save" button.

  7. KnowledgeNet.ai will propose a standard name for your list: [LinkedIn Connection's Name's] network. You are free to edit this name. When you are ready, click the blue "OK" button.

  8. KnowledgeNet.ai will begin building a list for you. It will take up to 1K connections (which is the limit imposed by LinkedIn) for each of your first-degree connections. You can view this list by going to https://app.knowledgenet.ai/app/lists.

  9. The list will appear in your KnowledgeNet.ai web app as a private list.

  10. When you open a network list, you will see that it has been enriched by KnowledgeNet.ai with as much data as possible, including email addresses.

  11. Sort this list inside KnowledgeNet.ai by hovering over the column headers and clicking on the hamburger menu (three vertical lines). You can also export this list to Excel to take advantage of its advanced filtering capabilities. NOTE: When you export a file from KnowledgeNet.ai, your file will be generated in the background. When it is ready, an email will be sent to the address associated with your KnowledgeNet.ai account. You have 36 hours to download the file from the link in this email.

LinkedIn Super-Connectors FAQs

Why do I see "Unresolved LinkedIn Profiles" on my saved Network list?

Unresolved profiles will show up in a Network list as incomplete information (missing employments, company data etc.). An 'unresolved profile' is a profile that KnowledgeNet.ai has not yet fetched from LinkedIn. To enrich your Network lists with as much data as possible, log into LinkedIn in a separate browser tab and leave that tab open. This allows KnowledgeNet.ai to download missing profiles in the background. You are free to work on other tabs. LinkedIn puts speed limits on how quickly KnowledgeNet.ai can retrieve profile data and it can take a little time to fully flesh out a network list.

My connection has over 1,000 connections. Why don't I see them all on the Network list?

LinkedIn imposes a 1,000 connection limit. This is set and controlled by LinkedIn, not KnowledgeNet.ai.

I'm a first-degree connection with someone. Why can't I see their Network?

By default, LinkedIn allows users to see the connections of their first-degree connections. However, this setting is controlled by each user and this permission can be turned off. If a LinkedIn user has chosen to not allow their first-degree connections to view their network, KnowledgeNet.ai will not circumvent this permission setting.

You can tell if someone's network is open or closed by looking at the top of their profile page.

This person has turned off this permission. The connections count is greyed out.

This person has left this permission on. Their connections count is blue and clickable.

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