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.

You can auto respond to messages based on some keywords in message. You can auto endorse your connections’ skills if they send you a message with specific keywords.

There are 8 different ways to send a messages to your connections using Linked Social Toolkit

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

Sending follow up messages to new connections

You can send follow up messages to your connections when they accept your invitation. Click the “Auto respond messages” button from Linked Social Toolkit left menu then you will see dialog as below

Follow these steps to send follow up message

1. Click the “Auto respond messages” button from Linked Social Toolkit left menu
2. Enable default follow up message for new connections
3. Attach files or images if you want
4. Click the "Start" button

Feature explanation

Auto respond after connecting

You can send automatic follow up message to your new connection when they accept your invitation in real-time. Click the checkbox to enable it and click on “Edit” button to change reply message for connecting.

After clicking the “Edit” button you will see a dialog as below

Reply message for new connections

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

Exclude connections from auto reply

You can exclude new connections from auto reply based on their company name. Enter comma separated companies’ names and check “Enable not responding employees filter” checkbox to enable this feature. Companies names are not case-sensitive.

Attachments

You can send images and files as attachments with your follow up message for new connections. Click the “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.

Enter all required information and click on “Update” button to save changes. Click the "Start" button to start auto responder.

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