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.

There are 8 different ways to send a messages to your connections

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

There are 3 ways to endorse skills of to your connections using Linked Social Toolkit

1. Endorse connections' skills through auto responder
2. Endorse targeted connections
3. Endorse all connections

Auto endorse skills with auto responder

Before endorsing your connections' skills, it is recommended to turn on auto responder that will auto respond to “Thank you messages” from your connections which you get after endorsing their skills.

You can auto endorse your connections’ skills if someone sends you a message containing specific keywords. Click the “Auto respond messages” button from Linked Social Toolkit left menu then you will see dialog as below

Follow these steps to set up an auto responder

1. Click the “Auto respond messages” button from Linked Social Toolkit left menu
2. Enable auto response for skill endorsement
3. Edit reply message which will be sent when endorsement is done
4. Click the "Start" button

Feature explanation

Edit

Click on checkbox to enable it and click on “Edit” button to edit keyword and other settings.

New dialog will open when you click the “Edit” button.

Keywords

Enter your search term or keyword for endorsing skills. You can enter multiple keywords with comma separation.

Total skills

In Total skills option enter total number of users’ skills you want to endorse.

Reply message

Enter your reply message that will be sent once endorsement is done. 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.

Attachments

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.

Click the “Stop script execution” button from Linked Social Toolkit left menu to stop script from auto endorsing connections skills.