What will people think of me when they see I’m looking at their profile?

That’s a question that came up in a coaching session. She’s new on LinkedIn and looking to grow and learn from people on the platform.

Know what my response was?

“I love when people look at my profile!”

That’s right.

I don’t think of those people as lurkers. I think of those people as potential relationships.

After all I told her, “If you put all this work into your profile then wouldn’t you want people to check you out?”

When in doubt, send that personalized message,  make that observation about that person’s profile, find something that you can relate to.  DM that person, because you never know where that conversation will go!

I was there.  Back in 2017, I was only connected to people I knew.  Then I started expanding my network and I haven’t looked back.

On average I get 1800 people looking at my profile, every 90 days. They are all potential relationships.

There are 930 million people on LinkedIn.  I don’t think of all those people as strangers. My go to is “There are people here for the wrong reasons, but there are more people here for the right ones.”

How do you treat people checking out your profile? Are they lurkers or potentials?