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Importing electronic mail lists into LinkedIn to grow your connections is difficult at best. There's no effective manner to import a list and personalize a bulletin to that listing. Nosotros've tried information technology on several of our squad members' accounts, both free and premium.

Here we depict the procedure and then you know what we've tried and doesn't piece of work. None of the routes lead to sending a personalized bulletin to your electronic mail list.

Upload contact file fails

The biggest problem and thwarting is when y'all select "Whatsoever Email" to upload a file in.csv, .txt, or .vcf, information technology doesn't piece of work.  If it did, information technology would brand a large deviation to growing your LinkedIn connections with email lists. This isn't a temporary broken event every bit we've seen reports dating back to 2013 with no resolution.

It doesn't matter how yous format the file or if y'all follow LinkedIn's "Uploading Contacts File Didn't Work" instructions. We went as far as exporting our LinkedIn connections as a .csv file. We erase all the information and copy/paste the first name, final name and electronic mail address from email list into that file.

We upload it and in one case once more, the upload fails. The LinkedIn community gives communication nosotros've already tried. None of the communication works.

A few reports merits that the import works despite the mistake. Nosotros could not find whatever of the names from the uploaded file in the Imported Contacts Listing.

Trying a workaround

In this workaround, we consign our email listing and import it into a web-based email service. While you can copy/paste electronic mail addresses to "Invite by individual email" as shown in the first paradigm, LinkedIn won't let you personalize the message. The service automatically sends them the generic connection request. That won't practise.

Here's how we did the process in case you want to try information technology for other purposes. First, have your exported file of your email list set up to go. If you don't have information technology yet, become ahead and export your email list from your email app or email marketing provider. Most provide instructions on how to do it. Hither are instructions for Abiding Contact, Gmail, Post Chimp, Outlook, Outlook.com and YahooMail.

Important: Exist sure you keep first and last names in separate columns. If the first and last names are in the same column, you'll import electronic mail addresses without names.

Getting the names into LinkedIn

Select a web-based email service to apply to import the addresses into LinkedIn. If you want to import e-mail lists on a regular basis, y'all'll desire to create a brand new business relationship that you can use for this process. This keeps things make clean and prevents duplication.  LinkedIn is supposed to recognize duplicates, it doesn't always. The first two entries in our Imported Contacts Listing on LinkedIn are duplicates.

This example uses Yahoo! Mail. Since we don't use Yahoo! Mail to for daily e-mail activities, nosotros delete all the contacts in that account before importing the email list. This ensures that LinkedIn only imports the new names from the email list.

In Yahoo! Post, we imported the email list in a .csv file into Yahoo! contacts. (Contacts > Actions > Import > File Upload > Browse > (select .csv file) > Open > Import > View Contacts.) Success. I thing finally goes our way!

At present go to LinkedIn. Cull "Add Connections" from the Connections carte du jour.

This takes you to the "Run across Who You Already Know on LinkedIn" page. Choose your web-based electronic mail service. Here, we select "Yahoo! Postal service" and enter our yahoo email address. Select "Keep" to movement on.

A popup appears requesting authorized access to Yahoo! Contacts. (If you lot're not logged in Yahoo!, it'll ask you to enter your login.)

Hither, 1 of 2 things tin happen.

1, you lot'll see the "Congratulations, your previous contacts upload was successful" box. Yous can become alee, choose "Add connection(s)" and "Add to network" to send an automatic invitation unless you want to send a personalized invitation one-by-one.

The second thing that can happen is that LinkedIn asks you if you employ other web-based electronic mail services. Ignore that and go to "Manage imported contacts."

Manage imported contacts

At present we're on the Imported Contacts folio. The ones with the LinkedIn symbol have LinkedIn accounts. Those are the ones you want to target.

There's a little fleck of good news. We were already connected to a few people who attended the event where nosotros collected names for this email listing. Those names don't show up in the Imported Contacts List. Then no worries near sending an invitation to someone already connected to you.

To proceed with an invitation to connect, choose "Select all" and deselect anyone who doesn't take the LinkedIn icon. Then select "Invite selected contacts" to transport the LinkedIn invitation to connect. At present, if only LinkedIn would give u.s.a. the selection to personalize the message.

So if you have a long list of names, this gives y'all a way to send an invitation to connect on LinkedIn in bulk. Merely nosotros're big on personalization and prefer not to do this.

For the next email listing

If you're OK with not personalizing the mailing list, then y'all could echo this process. For case, next time we attend an event or create a special email list, we'd use Yahoo! Mail again. All we have to practice is select all the contacts — since we've already imported them — to delete them and start fresh.

Not the prettiest procedure, but information technology works for sending majority invitation requests. Information technology'south less fourth dimension consuming than trying to email each person.

How do you connect with your e-mail lists on LinkedIn?

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Source: https://www.proresource.com/want-more-linkedin-connections-tips-for-importing-lists/

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