Inviting people to Connect The Dots

Because our Enterprise Connector automatically brings the entire company onto the platform, all employees’ networks are connected, which means Enterprise users will immediately see potential contacts when they use the app.

After the team gets familiar with the app, a critically important next step is to invite well-connected supporters, partners, and customers to join the platform. We recommend starting with board members, advisors, and other investors—people with strong connections and a vested interest in seeing your company succeed.

Bringing just a few of these people onto Connect The Dots is a quick, easy way to extend your team’s reach significantly.

The invitation process is simple. Just log in to the app and click the Invite button on the dashboard. You will have an option to cut and paste an invite link or send an HTML email invite. When you send the HTML email invitations, you will have the option to include a personal note. We strongly recommend writing one.

Because many of the people you invite won’t be familiar with Connect The Dots, it helps to be specific, succinct, and benefit-driven. Everyone you invite to the platform should know what’s in it for them.

To help make the invitation process easier and more effective, we’ve written some standard invites for you to copy, paste, and customize.

For each, we’ve included a subject line, which you can use if you send invite links by email. If you use the invite functionality inside the app, subjects and openings won’t be necessary.

Invite your CEO, CXO, board members, or advisors

Subject: A new way to help the team make connections

We’re using a new tool that maps professional relationships and shows how well people know each other, so it’s easy to find the best connections to reach target accounts and multithread deals. I’m trying to get the entire executive team and all of our advisors on so we can make the most of all the connections available to us. I’d love to have you sign up. It will be a huge help for us, and it’s a great tool to help you leverage your network, too.

Subject: Connect The Dots

I’d love to get you on this new tool we’re launching. It automatically maps professional connections and shows the strength of each relationship, which helps source and multithread deals. Instead of general intro requests, we’ll be able to see who you know best and come to you with specific asks. This way, we can drive maximum pipeline while being really efficient with your time.

Invite your job candidates

Subject: An interesting way for you to make connections at [company name]

It's great that you've advanced to the next round of interviews. To give you a view into our organization, I’m inviting you to Connect The Dots, a tool we use to map professional connections. You can use it to learn more about the people you’re interviewing with and find mutual connections.

Invite your new customers

Subject: I’d love to help you make connections at [company name]

We’re excited to welcome you to [company name]! As part of our onboarding, I’d love to invite you to Connect The Dots, a tool we use to map professional connections. Everyone in our company is available on the tool, so it’s a great way to network with us. If there’s anyone on the team or in my extended network I can help you reach, don't hesitate to ask.

Invite your customer champions

Subject: I’d love to help you make connections

First, I want to thank you so much for being such a great customer for us at [company name]. I’d like to invite you to join Connect The Dots, a tool we’re using to share our company network with our closest partners and collaborators. If you join, you’ll be able to make connections across our organization and see who we can introduce you to. If there’s anyone on the team or in my extended network I can help you reach, don't hesitate to ask.

Invite your partners/co-sellers

Subject: Let's Connect The Dots

I’d love to have you join me on Connect The Dots. It maps professional relationships and shows how well people know each other, so you can quickly pinpoint the best connections to people and companies you want to reach. We can use it to trade notes and see where we can help each other with introductions or insight into particular accounts. If you join, feel free to browse my contacts and let me know if you see anyone interesting.

Invite your sellers

Subject: A new way to find warm connections and drive deals

I’d love to get you on this new tool we’re launching. It automatically maps professional connections and shows the strength of each relationship, so you can see exactly who the leadership team can put you in touch with at target accounts. It’s also a great way to leverage relationships you have with customers, partners, or anyone else! It should help a lot with prospecting, multithreading, and lead nurturing. Going into a new account via a warm connection is a lot easier than going in cold.

Invite your recruiters or hiring manager

Subject: A great new way to find candidates and drive referral

I’d love to get you on this new tool we’re launching. It automatically maps professional connections and shows the strength of each relationship, so you can see who on the team can help you reach potential hires. Instead of waiting for people to recommend candidates, you can proactively ask them about specific people they know. That should really speed things up for you.

Sales manager to sales team

Subject: We should all be using Connect The Dots

Hi everybody,

At this point, you should have gotten some emails about Connect The Dots, a new tool we’re testing. I want to reinforce some of the best ways we can use it:

Target account prospecting. Connect The Dots shows you who you know that has strong connections at your target accounts. It’s a great way to do account research and make inroads with your early outreach to prospects.
Multithreading deals. You can use Connect The Dots to find connections to different stakeholders at the companies where you’re working a deal. It’s a great way to proactively protect your sale and lay the groundwork for horizontal account growth.
Preparing for calls. If you’ve got a meeting on the calendar and need context, Connect The Dots shows the people you have in common, email history, and professional background of anyone you’re in touch with.

Remember that Connect The Dots has a Chrome Extension that overlays LinkedIn, so you can easily do all this stuff right there on a person’s LinkedIn profile or a company page.

One last point. Connect The Dots is a networked product, so it gets better as more people join. One of the best things you can do is invite customers or partners to get on the platform and connect with you. They can use it just like you do—to find better connections to people and companies they want to reach. So it’s a win-win.

Connect The Dots has offered to coach us as we use the product, so let me know if you’re interested.