Now, if only LinkedIn would give us the option to personalize the message. Then select “Invite selected contacts” to send the LinkedIn invitation to connect. To proceed with an invitation to connect, choose “Select all” and deselect anyone who doesn’t have the LinkedIn icon. So no worries about sending an invitation to someone already connected to you. Those names don’t show up in the Imported Contacts List. We were already connected to a few people who attended the event where we collected names for this email list. The ones with the LinkedIn symbol have LinkedIn accounts. Ignore that and go to “Manage imported contacts.” The second thing that can happen is that LinkedIn asks you if you use other web-based email services. You can go ahead, choose “Add connection(s)” and “Add to network” to send an automated invitation unless you want to send a personalized invitation one-by-one. One, you’ll see the “Congratulations, your previous contacts upload was successful” box. (If you’re not logged in Yahoo!, it’ll ask you to enter your login.) Select “Continue” to move on.Ī popup appears requesting authorized access to Yahoo! Contacts. Here, we select “Yahoo! Mail” and enter our yahoo email address. This takes you to the “See Who You Already Know on LinkedIn” page. Choose “Add Connections” from the Connections menu. csv file) > Open > Import > View Contacts.) Success. (Contacts > Actions > Import > File Upload > Browse > (select. In Yahoo! Mail, we imported the email list in a. This ensures that LinkedIn only imports the new names from the email list. Since we don’t use Yahoo! Mail to for daily email activities, we delete all the contacts in that account before importing the email list. The first two entries in our Imported Contacts List on LinkedIn are duplicates. LinkedIn is supposed to recognize duplicates, it doesn’t always. This keeps things clean and prevents duplication. If you want to import email lists on a regular basis, you’ll want to create a brand new account that you can use for this process. Select a web-based email service to use to import the addresses into LinkedIn. If the first and last names are in the same column, you’ll import email addresses without names. Important: Be sure you keep first and last names in separate columns. Here are instructions for Constant Contact, Gmail, Mail Chimp, Outlook, and YahooMail. Most provide instructions on how to do it. If you don’t have it yet, go ahead and export your email list from your email app or email marketing provider. First, have your exported file of your email list ready to go. Here’s how we did the process in case you want to try it for other purposes. The service automatically sends them the generic connection request. While you can copy/paste email addresses to “Invite by individual email” as shown in the first image, LinkedIn won’t let you personalize the message. In this workaround, we export our email list and import it into a web-based email service. We could not find any of the names from the uploaded file in the Imported Contacts List. None of the advice works.Ī few reports claim that the import works despite the error. The LinkedIn community gives advice we’ve already tried. ![]() We upload it and once again, the upload fails. ![]() We erase all the information and copy/paste the first name, last name and email address from email list into that file. We went as far as exporting our LinkedIn connections as a. It doesn’t matter how you format the file or if you follow LinkedIn’s “ Uploading Contacts File Didn’t Work” instructions. This isn’t a temporary broken issue as we’ve seen reports dating back to 2013 with no resolution. ![]() If it did, it would make a big difference to growing your LinkedIn connections with email lists. The biggest problem and disappointment is when you select “Any Email” to upload a file in.csv. None of the routes lead to sending a personalized message to your email list. Here we describe the process so you know what we’ve tried and doesn’t work. We’ve tried it on several of our team members’ accounts, both free and premium. There’s no effective way to import a list and personalize a message to that list. Importing email lists into LinkedIn to grow your connections is difficult at best.
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