LinkedIn messages that get replies are short, mention one specific thing about the person or company, and ask a question instead of pitching. Send a one-line note with the connection request, wait two or three days after it's accepted, then ask a question about their business. Stay under LinkedIn's limit of roughly 100 invitations a week, send from a real profile at a human pace, and time each touch between the emails in your sequence.
LinkedIn caps connection invitations at roughly 100 a week for most accounts, restricts profiles that push past it, and its user agreement prohibits bots and automated tools. Two consequences: you can't win on volume, so acceptance rate is the number to optimize, and everything below assumes a real person's profile sending at a human pace. A restricted account costs more than any campaign gains.
Every prospect looks at the profile before accepting. Three things should be true of it:
You have 300 characters. Use about 150. One true thing, no pitch.
Blank requests get accepted, but accepted-and-forgotten is the same as ignored. A note gives the first message somewhere to start.
No link, no pitch, one question. The reply tells you whether there's a conversation.
LinkedIn works best as the second channel in a sequence, so the prospect sees a familiar name when the email arrives. LinkedIn and Meta ads aimed at the same titles can warm them up before the first note, and our B2B paid social program runs that side.
| Day | Channel | Touch |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | First email, one question | |
| 3 | Connection request with a note | |
| 4 | Follow-up in the same thread | |
| 6 | First message, if accepted | |
| 8 | Last email | |
| 10 | Follow-up or voice note |
This is the structure behind our LinkedIn lead generation program, and the email side is covered in the cold email templates guide.
LinkedIn limits most accounts to roughly 100 invitations a week and may restrict accounts that push past it or leave many invitations pending. Aim for 15 to 20 well-chosen requests a day at most, and withdraw old pending requests.
Yes. A one-line note about something true on the prospect's profile or company gets accepted more often and gives the first message context. Never pitch in the note.
Two to three days. Messaging the instant someone accepts confirms you only connected to sell.
LinkedIn's user agreement prohibits bots and automated methods to access or send messages, and accounts caught doing it get restricted. Send from real profiles at a human pace.
Twelve cold email templates we use in client campaigns, with the reasoning behind each one: the trigger email, the question email, the referral ask, the breakup and more. Under 80 words, one ask, no fluff.
Read the templatesForty-five cold email subject lines grouped by type, with the data on length, personalization and the patterns that have stopped working. From campaigns Be Leaded runs.
Read the subject linesA step-by-step email warmup guide: what to set up before day one, a 21-day sending schedule per inbox, what to watch, and when a domain is ready for real cold email volume.
Read the warmup scheduleThirty minutes with the founder. You'll leave with a clear picture of your market, what a campaign would look like and what it would cost.
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