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All right we're going to talk about the shady hack people are using to get crazy LinkedIn growth.

Now, Neil changed this title on me last minute, so Neil, you can go first.

Yeah, so the way people are getting a lot of traffic on LinkedIn is it's all about comments and engagement.

How many good comments can you get from profiles have over 500 plus connections and are those comments

engaging where other people want to interact and respond with.

So the shady tactic people are doing right now is they're going to sites like PlayerUp.com and you can find

LinkedIn accounts with over 500 plus connections and they're buying like not five or ten of them they're buying like 20 of them.

So they're spending maybe up to like a thousand to two thousand dollars because if you buy them in bulk you also get discounts.

Now if you end up buying the ones,

and Erica and I aren't recommending this tactic,

we're just telling you how it is.

And neither him or I focus on this tactic or use it.

But if you buy accounts with less than 500 connections, it doesn't work as well. You need accounts with 500 plus connections. The LinkedIn profiles need to be verified. And what you'll want to end up doing is you know like you don't want the

LinkedIn account to just have random connections like it needs to be actually connections with

real people that's what I mean by verified.

So you need to go through the connections

and just make sure they're legitimate.

And what people are doing is they're logging into each of those profiles

and right when a post goes live within like four hours at the latest they're leaving

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