A sane pace for LinkedIn outreach
There's no safe number, but there is a sensible pace. Here is the one we use, why we warm up first, and what we never automate.
Nobody can tell you a number of LinkedIn invites that's guaranteed safe. LinkedIn doesn't publish one, and it changes. What you can do is stay well inside the sort of pace a keen person could keep up, and stop when LinkedIn says so.
The pace we use
Our method's numbers are 10 invites a day and 80 a week. The weekly limit is counted over any seven days in a row, not Monday to Sunday, so you can't save up and send a burst. Messages, profile views, follows and likes each have their own, lower ceilings, and a new account starts lower and builds up.
You can lower any of them. You can't raise them past the ceiling.
Warm up before you connect
A stranger who has just viewed your profile and liked a post is less strange when your invite arrives. So Adapt does the warm-up first: it views the profile and likes a post, then the invite goes out. It's slower, and it's how a person would do it.
Every invite waits for you
Connection requests go out only after you approve them, and messages go only to people who've accepted, again after your OK. A tool that sends to everyone it can find isn't prospecting, it's spraying.
Comments are yours
A thoughtful comment on a prospect's post does more than ten invites, and it can't be automated honestly. So Adapt suggests, and you post. It never posts or comments for you.
Everything stays in your browser
LinkedIn actions run in your own browser, through the Chrome extension, on your own connection. Nothing is sent from our servers, and the extension stops by itself at the first warning from LinkedIn.
What this won't do
It won't guarantee your account is never restricted, and it won't get you hundreds of connections a week. It aims for a steady, human pace that you can keep up for months. How LinkedIn outreach works.
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