Why Your Words Are the Most Powerful Networking Tool on LinkedIn

Here is Why Your Words Are the Most Powerful Networking Tool on LinkedIn®

Loads of people describe LinkedIn as a “networking platform”…yet surprisingly few people actually network on it.

They post content.

They scroll.

They react.

But when it comes to using LinkedIn intentionally for real connection, visibility, and opportunity, very little changes.

And that’s a missed opportunity — because one of the most powerful things about LinkedIn has not changed.

What LinkedIn Still Does Brilliantly for Networking

Despite algorithm updates and feature changes, LinkedIn still offers three outstanding networking advantages:

1. LIVE on LinkedIn – real-time visibility, not hidden conversations
2. Event promotion inside LinkedIn – discoverable in search and feeds
3. Replay visibility – conversations don’t disappear; they continue

Those three features are exactly why I created Global Business Networking LIVE Online.

It’s networking designed for today’s world, where how you speak, respond, and engage publicly shapes how you’re perceived.

Networking with Words, Not Pitches

At our LIVE networking events, you don’t just introduce yourself.

You also participate in guided discussions, and this is where most people experience a shift.

Because your words don’t go beyond communicating information.

They communicate clarity, confidence, experience, and relevance.

Which leads to one core truth:

Your words lead to your visibility.

That’s why my recent LIVE presentation focused on three key ideas, without overwhelming people with technique.

Watch the Recording below, yes, it’s a long one but you can scroll back and forth – my actual share starts at 28min in.

Now let me share three points with you:

1. Conversation Clarity Enables Visibility

Here’s an interesting point to know:

If people can’t easily understand what you do, visibility hasn’t happened.

Your introduction — especially in networking — works like a navigation system.

Clear input leads to the right destination.

Vague input leads people somewhere else entirely.

When your words are focused, specific, and aligned with one clear outcome, listeners can follow your thinking — and remember you for it.

Let me share this personal experience with you to make this point:

When my husband and I visited Paris and we went with our hire car to find our hotel, I’m the driver, I’m confident driving on the right and left side of the road and in places we visit for the first time, so I’m the driver and my husband is the navigator, he inputs the destination details into the GPS and monitors that I follow the instructions.

Here’s me, GPS is on, foot on the pedal, I go – three times in a row I miss a turn – the GPS gave me the instruction VERY late, I could not prepare my exit.

Finally got the exit, we arrive somewhere in the middle of Paris – totally wrong destination – I’m starting to get hot under the collar – we stop – ask some bystanders, the first 4 are visitors like us, don’t know anything, finally someone checks our GPS input data against our hotel address details and says:

…you put in Paris instead of the suburb you want to go to – street name is fine, suburb is wrong.

That’s what happens when you’ve used confusing words to share about you and your business!

2. Your Responses Are Visibility Signals

Networking isn’t only about what you say about yourself.

It’s also about how you respond to questions and discussions.
Every response sends signals about:

• How clearly you think
• How easy you are to understand
• How confidently you hold your expertise

People don’t remember everything you say —but they remember how clear and relatable you sounded.

For example, when I first ever joined Toastmasters to become confident in public speaking, it was the ‘on the spot’ topic given to make a 2min, that helped me learn to think on my feet, to answer on the topic and become really good at focusing on what the most important point is that I want to make.

If that’s something you’d like to be part of, grab a guest pass and join us at our next Global Business Networking LIVE Online event.

Here’s the registration link: https://www.0s4.com/r/KLYNVB

Next point:

3. Your Language Must Match Your Expertise and Your Audience

Highly capable professionals often lose opportunities simply because their language isn’t written or spoken for the listener.

When language is too broad, too internal, or too jargon-heavy:

• The right people don’t lean in
• The wrong people don’t know they’re not a fit
• …and no one feels certain enough to follow up

Clarity isn’t about dumbing things down.

It’s about making it easy for others to choose you because they clearly understand what you do.

Why This Matters Now

In an increasingly digital and AI-supported world, human clarity stands out.

People don’t connect with complexity.

They connect with understanding.

This is why LIVE conversation — not just content — has become such a powerful visibility tool.

Watch the Full Presentation

In the full recording above, I walk through these ideas in detail, with live examples and practical demonstrations of how wording changes outcomes in networking.

Or jump on over to You Tube via this link and while you’re there, I invite you subscribe to my channel

👉 https://youtu.be/5AaA0OmXoYs?si=qu_essE_pm-zBnkg

If you want to experience what I’ve shared here, you are, again, invited to attend an upcoming Global Business Networking LIVE Online event.

Networking isn’t about saying more.

It’s about choosing words that finally work for you — not against you.

…and if you’d like to have a chat, connect below or send me an email from the contact page.