Your contacts

Manage all your contacts in the 'Contacts' section.

There are 5 tabs under 'Contacts':

• 1. My Contacts: Members you are connected to. You share your network with them. They can ask you to introduce them to your other contacts.
• 2. Successful invitations: List of contacts you successfully invited to join Viadeo
• 3. Address book: Contacts imported from your address book but you have not invited them to join. You can  import your address book from Outlook or  import from a file and webmail .
  
  Importing your address book helps you find people you know on Viadeo, then invite the rest of your contacts to increase the size of your network.
• 4. Pending invitations: List of persons you have invited who have not yet accepted your invitation.
• 5. News feed: Your contacts' recent activities, for example, joining a forum, post message in a forum or connecting to another member.

You increase your business networking opportunities when you have more contacts. Your contacts can introduce you to their contacts. Well connected members will rank higher in our search engine as well.

Invite people you know to become your contacts on Viadeo. All you need is their email addresses. Ways to invite your contacts:

• To invite one person: Use the link 'Invite a person' on the 'My Contacts' page. Enter the email address, personalise the message and then send the invitation.
• To invite multiple people: Use the link 'Multiple people' on the 'My Contacts' page. Enter the email addresses, personalise the message and then send the invitation.
• To invite multiple people without entering email addresses individually: first fill in your address book, either manually or using the link 'My contacts: Import Contacts: Manual Entry' or by  importing your Outlook address book or Webmail or  importing from a file .
  
  Once your address book is completed, you can invite contacts one by one using the 'Invite' link or invite mutliple people. Check the box next to their names and click on the 'Invite Selection' button. Personalise the message and then send the invitation.

We recommend that you invite all the members that you know well and connect to those are already a member.

You need to know the email addresses of the contacts you invite.

Depends on if they are members of Viadeo or not

• Already a member: they can simply accept or decline your invitation. If it is accepted, you will become contacts.
• Not a member: they will receive an email with links for your profile and invitation.

Your contact may be registered with a different email from the one you know. Two things may occur:

• The member has entered a second email address (go to 'Accounts & Settings'>'Email and password'). In this case, they will receive your invitation in both emails.
• The member has not entered the second email address. In this case, Viadeo wouldn't know if person is already a member. The member is considered as a new member and is sent a registration form. This member can click on the 'I already have an account' located at the top of the form. After signing in, they will be directed to your invitation.

If you regularly use a second email address, we advise you to add another email to Viadeo. (Go to 'Accounts & Settings' > 'Email and password'.)

If you receive an invitation on an email address different from the one you used to register, do not fill out a new registration form but click on the link "I already have an account" on the form.

Invitation is sent to people not using Viadeo to invite them joining the network.

You send a Connection Request to ask a member to connect to you. Introduction Request is sent when you ask a contact to introduce you to one of their contacts.

To thank you for your commitment and loyalty, Viadeo offers a sponsorship program which gives you one free month of membership.
When 10 people subscribe to the site using your invitation link, you will receive one free month of Premium membership*. If you are already a Premium member, the free month will be added to your membership.

* Once per year maximum.