Curious what everyone's using for LinkedIn outreach right now: connecting, messaging and prospecting. I'm helping a client scale their LinkedIn follow-up, and doing it by hand isn't sustainable. I know the automation tools technically go against LinkedIn's terms. Does that worry you, or have you found a setup that feels safe? Would love to hear what's working (and what's gotten anyone's account flagged 😅).
For list building, enrichment and research - Bitscale and for sequencing - heyreach.
heyreach for automation. No need to look anywhere else. I don't use any other tool for any of my clients. I've used hundreds of LinkedIn senders across dozens of workspaces for my clients on heyreach. A phenomenal team behind it also. Tie it to your chat or Claude and let it rip.
I’ve heard good things about Heyreach as well.
Can you build the list using Heyreach?
I use dozens, depending on the ICP I'm building for. I use a ton of things, but I definitely don't just use Apollo (or equivalent). You're going to really need to drill down to what pain signals look like and go out and find tools and APIs to help find good fit companies that meet those requirements. Then you're gonna need to enrich with people data (less particular about that, as long as match rate is there), and then push up to the campaigns after bringing in the data into the messaging at the individual person level (essentially creating specific non-variable signal driven messaging specific to each individual person you having on that list). A simple way to do this would be to check out something like Grok bot to consistently finds orgs/folks that match your ICP + hosts a signal that you can use in messaging, and then tie it to campaigns in Heyreach.
It worries me because my own profile is the channel. If it gets restricted the pipeline stops, not just a client's. So we've stayed manual: connection requests only to people who've already reacted to or commented on something, 15 a day max, no note on the request, DM only after they accept and only about the post we met on. Slower than a sequencer, but they already know the name when the DM lands. Mike C. since you've run this across dozens of workspaces, what does the front end look like before HeyReach ever sends anything? Is it comment and engage first, or straight to connect, and what reply rate do you actually see on the first message?
You don't have to worry as long as you are sending decent stuff and you use Heyreach or another tool that has built-in safety infrastructure to automate it. I've never had a real account banned. Only put onn "cool down" which is like a week or so where you can't use it. But that's even rare. I have dozens of C-suite execs trusting me with their LinkedIn's. Stay at around 15 or 20 connection requests per day for the first couple weeks, and then you can move it to 30, then gradually you could get it up to 40, but you just to be safe, stay around 30 and you will hit your 200 per week, no problem. No, I only send a connection request with a note. I never send connection requests without notes. I'm not trying to trick people. I tell them what I want up front. Connection and acceptance rates should be between 5% and 20% and reply rates should be between 20% and 60% traditionally if you use that route and you have good targeting and messaging. I've been continuously proving this over the past two years. In my opinion, it's the only way to do things.
It's completely dependent on what you're selling. There's almost never a one-size-fits-all. And if someone or a tool tells you differently, they're lying lol. Sure there is overlap, definitely, but no one-size-fits-all, that's for sure. That said, there are some navigational intent signals that you can lean into that are pretty universal but you definitely shouldn't stop there or think that that's going to solve all your problems. One of those that actually does span the gamut of "previous decision-makers at companies your company has worked with in the past that are now at a different company that is also an ICP".
We’ve been working on LinkedVue for exactly this use case - managing LinkedIn outreach without turning it into a fully hands-off automation setup. It helps with prospecting, organizing leads, notes, reminders, connection tracking, and personalized follow-up sequences, so you can scale the workflow while keeping the actual outreach more controlled and human-led. linkedvue.com
Sourabh - i'm not the police, but why don't you just add some more value? and weave your product into the conversation versus just throwing it in here? It particularly goes against everything I said in here lol so without any context into why you think you can solve, people won't give your product a second look since I already provided a ton of context and insight.
