Social media has become the perfect place for social selling. It has the right mix of professional and personal that allows businesses to sell to potential clients in a way they will be most receptive to. That is why reaching out to people on social media is much more effective: response rate is an impressive 30-40%. Compare that with cold emailing, which has a 15% open rate and 2% response rate on average. Social selling is the future of sales. So let’s get started on how you can set up an auto responder using Linked Social Toolkit.

Linked Social Toolkit have default templates for auto responding with personalized message to birthday wishes, work anniversary, new job greetings, promotion greetings, additional position greetings and Auto respond to “Thank you messages” from your connections after endorsing their skills. You just need to enable these auto responses and update them with your message.

1. Message all connections
2. Message targeted connections
3. Send birthday wishes to your connections
4. Send new job wishes to your connections
5. Send work anniversary wishes to your connections
6. Auto respond to messages
7. Send follow up messages to new connections
8. Send message after endorsing connections skills

Click on “Auto respond messages” button from Linked Social Toolkit left menu then you will see dialog as below

1. Click the “Auto respond messages” button from Linked Social Toolkit left menu
2. Create your auto responder
3. Attach files or images if you want
4. Click the "Start" button

You can auto respond to messages based on some keywords in message. So whenever Linked Social Toolkit receives the message containing your define keyword, it will automatically reply with your reply message defined for that keyword.

Click on plus icon to create your own automatic responses for messages.

After clicking on plus icon, you will see below window asking to complete required information for creating auto response. Enter all required information and click on “Create” button to create new auto response.

Enter keywords for which you want to send an automatic response. You can enter multiple keywords with comma separated. Keywords are not case-sensitive.

Enter your reply message for your keywords. You can use @name for entire name, @firstName for first name and @lastName for last name of the user. These short codes are case-sensitive.

You can send images and files as attachments with your auto reply message. Click on “Attach an image” or “Attach a file”, then select your attachment. You can also add multiple attachments with single message script will save your attachment.

Check the checkbox to enable or uncheck to disable auto response. Linked Social Toolkit have default templates for auto responding to birthday wishes, work anniversary wishes, new job greetings wishes etc. These templates have keywords defined in different languages.

Check the checkbox against endorsing keywords to enable it and Click on "Start" button to start auto responder. The best way get endorsements for your skills is to request your connections in reply message to endorse your skill.

Check the checkbox against birthday keywords to enable it and Click on "Start" button to start auto responder.

Check the checkbox against new job keywords to enable it and Click on "Start" button to start auto responder.

Check the checkbox against work anniversary keywords to enable it and Click on "Start" button to start auto responder.

You can edit auto response by clicking on “Edit” button or click on “Delete” button to delete auto response.

You can change auto responding by dragging the response up or down. Top most response will have higher priority.

Click the “Stop script execution” button from Linked Social Toolkit left menu to stop script from auto responding messages.