Buy LinkedIn Endorsements - QQSumo

Given the cutthroat nature of the competitive professional networking world, your first impressions matter, and so does your LinkedIn profile. Think of it as your digital handshake, an always-on sales rep, and the main home base of your personal brand. One of the most important components, though, and one that many people overlook when optimizing their profiles, are Skill Endorsements.

Rather than obsessing for the highest number of connections, it is the endorsement of skills that is going to convert the most profile views into opportunities for job offers, client inquiries, or partnerships. Securing upwards of 50 endorsements organically is out of reach for the majority of people in the forseeable future.

That is where QQSumo comes in. By using social proof as our foundation, we are able to offer a solution to this problem. In this handbook, we will discuss the market for socially purchased endorsements, the importance of social proof in driving traffic to LinkedIn profiles, and how QQSumo is the leading provider of safe, authentic endorsements.

Understanding the Social Proof Phenomenon on LinkedIn

Since the why is as important as the how, we first need to take a step back and answer this question: Why is it that people care so much about endorsements?

When a recruiter or hiring manager land on your profile, they begin a subconscious assessment of the associated risks. Do they think that the candidate is as competent as their resume indicates? LinkedIn is a world where social proof is the most important currency, and skill endorsements are an example of social proof.

• Cognitive Ease: The number of people who have endorsed you for “Project Management” helps a viewer trust the claim without checking further, as they have a positive, “feels true” intuition.

• Recency Bias: An active, new, and current profile in the industry is a profile with new and several endorsements.

• The Halo Effect: A positive endorsement profile is a positive endorsement of the whole profile. If you endorsed “Digital Strategy,” you’re assumed to be good in “Analytics” and “SEO” as well.

The most remarkable bullets on a resume without endorsements are empty. QQSumo helps with demonstrating the correlation between having skills and having endorsements.

The Organic Endorsement Dilemma

Why do successful, high-caliber, intelligent people find it difficult to receive endorsements naturally?

1. The Reciprocity Trap: Users tend to delay giving endorsements in the hopes of receiving one in return. This often leads to a deadlock. 

2. Skill Obsolescence: It's possible you have revised your profile with new titles (i.e. “Artificial Intelligence” or “Blockchain”), but your former connections might be unqualified to endorse such advanced skills.

3. Visibility Issues:  LinkedIn has developed an algorithm that favors certain users over others based on profile engagement. If a user profile has a lower amount of endorsements, that user will rank lower in search result and get less visibility and endorsements. This leads to a viscous cycle. Getting LinkedIn endorsements is not cheating to build your profile. LinkedIn endorsements are a networking engine. Buying an entry level endorsements package with QQSumo lets your network view your profile as an engagement target which will lead them to put in some actual endorsements.

Why QQSumo is the industry standard for endorsements.

In regard to the industry standard for endorsements, QQSumo has refined itself in comparison to QQSUMO market leaders in order to avoid any "black hat" growth risk. This is the reason QQSumo is the best.

Real people, not bots. 

Purchasing social proof can cause legitimate fear of something we call the "Bot Drop". A LinkedIn fraud algorithm can easily identify fake sponsor profiles and this will trigger shadowbanning and profile restrictions.QQSumo resolves this issue by employing a network of actual, real people who are professional and will, by using real profiles that are complete and active with connection histories and endorsements, will eliminate any of the social proof endorsements and the endorsements will actually be indistinguishable from organic.

The Drip-Feed Methodology

When something is too good to be true, it usually is. If you receive 50 endorsements in just 5 minutes on LinkedIn, you will get flagged for suspicious activity.  

QQSumo’s Solution: To avoid this issue, we use a gradual drip-feed delivery system. As stated in the analysis of the top competitors, we distribute the endorsements over 8 to 12 days to replicate natural and viral growth. One endorsement prompts another, so it will look organic to LinkedIn.

Geo-Targeting Capabilities

If you are a real estate agent in Texas, endorsements from "Accra, Ghana" will look suspicious.  

QQSumo’s Solution: We provide detailed geo-targeting. This means you can choose to have endorsements from a specific location, whether it’s the USA, UK, Canada, or Australia. We use geo-fencing to match endorsers to your desired location.

60-Day Retention Guarantee

We are proud to say this is one of the few places in the industry where you don’t have to worry about this problem. We offer a 60-day Retention Guarantee on quality. If your endorsements drop within this period because of profile audits or deletions, we refill them for free. You have your money back.

Strategic Usage – How to Make the Most of Your Endorsements 

Purchasing endorsements is just the beginning of this process; you also need to prove social value successfully. 

1. Change Your Skills Order  

LinkedIn shows skills in the order they were added by default. Once you get a lot of endorsements for certain skills, reorder them to showcase the most relevant skills for the position you are looking for (recruiter spotlight skills). If you bought 100 endorsements for "Digital Marketing," ensure that skill is listed first. 

2. Skill Quiz 

LinkedIn's Skills verification is a short quiz, and passing this quiz places a 'Verified' badge next to endorsements. When the skill has the badge, and you have 100 endorsements for that skill, you have the ultimate trust score.

3. About Section  

LinkedIn endorsements for skills are meaningless without the 'About' section. Endorsements cannot stand alone. It's important to tell a story that reflects the skills you have endorsed; for example, 'I am trusted by more than 100 people for my expertise in UX Research...'. That's how you bring everything together

4. Use it as Outreach Ammunition.

The connection requests you send to influencers or possible employers are automatically validated when they see endorsements on your profile. They no longer have to ask themselves, "What is the reason to connect with this person?"

Getting the Facts Straight - Is it safe to purchase endorsements?

A common belief in the SMM community is that you will be banned for any form of purchased engagement. This is based on assumptions made from the poor quality of service provided.

The Risk Assessment:

LinkedIn's TOS (Terms of Service) do not allow any form of engagement that is not real. But they are only concerned with bots and fake accounts.

QQSumo is operating on the ‘Grey Hat’ side of things. We do not create fake accounts. We offer real people to take real actions. This is not much different from, legally speaking, asking your college alumni group to endorse you, only on a much larger scale.

The safety measures we take:

• No Password Sharing: We never access your account.

• No Unnatural Increases: We have a drip-feed to avoid algorithm detection.

• We Are Targeting Diverse Skills: Were not doing to put 500 endorsements on 1 random skill as that appears suspicious. We balance endorsements more to your most listed skills.

Professional Validation in Future Job Markets

As more AI tools are developed and put into practice for resume generation and cover letter writing, our ability to connect with people will become an increasingly differentiated and prized ability. The value of LinkedIn endorsements is changing. Microsoft is engaged in some preliminary experimenting with ‘Verified Skills’ in connection with Microsoft Learn and LinkedIn Learning.

But, in this case, the cornerstone is still validation by peers. Digital badges and AI evaluation scores will still all be secondary to the person saying, card, note, or quoted: ‘I vouch for and confirm that John is excellent at this.’ 

QQSumo is NOT solely selling numbers; we sell velocity of opportunities. We compress the time that is needed to build trust so you can turn your focus to doing what you do best- your real job.

Conclusion: Your Profile is Undervalued. Fix It Now.

You are very likely in the top 10% in your field for competence. However, if your LinkedIn profile is in the bottom 50% for social proof, you are literally throwing away money and opportunities.

As a recruiter, the first step to judge a profile is the endorsements. The 7.4 seconds a recruiter spends ‘looking’ at endorsements is more time than it takes to judge your profile once and define ‘hireable’ based on the endorsements.

In six months, your network will wake up and validate you, but create the distance today.Please pick your LinkedIn Endorsement package on QQSumo.  Join over 100,000 happy customers who have ethically, safely, and effectively boosted social proof on their professional profiles.