Can’t invite more than 100 profiles per week? Here’s a workaround using Linked Helper.
If you are seeing a message like the one below on your screen, know that you are not the only one. Unfortunately, for the last couple of days, we have been getting more and more messages from people regarding the same issue. We know for a fact, that this is not your nor Linked Helper’s fault, and there are 3 main reasons for why this happened:
- You’ve sent many invitations within a short amount of time.
- Many of your invitations have been rejected or left pending by the recipients.
But most probably, you are just under the new LinkedIn cap of a maximum 100 invitations per week, which we know is honestly upsetting. We know for some of you LinkedIn is a source of generating sales, recruitment, and pitching, and obviously, 100 invites per week are not enough for you, Linked Helper is here to make your life a bit easier.
In this article, we will be discussing our solution in detail and as a bonus, you will learn how to utilize other Linked Helper’s useful features in order to get the best out of your leads.
- Create and adjust your campaign and contacts.
This workaround for invites works just like any other campaign. Everything is pretty straightforward. Start off as usual: create a new campaign, go for ‘Invite by Email and Follow Up’.
Now you need contacts for your campaign. And just as usual: Queue — ‘Add’ — Choose Source.
Here you would find more information on how to adjust your campaign, work with actions, and queue.
2. Decide how you extract the emails.
In order to invite profiles, Linked Helper 2 needs to know their email addresses. No matter if you have them or not, we have a solution for you. You can either upload emails into a custom field and use it as a source of email for inviting, or you can scrape emails using our Snov.io integration. Here you would find a step-by-step tutorial for this workaround.
- In case you already know emails of profiles you wish to invite, let’s say you have a CSV file, you may try using custom variables and in this case, Linked Helper will take the data from that custom field and will send invitations to those emails. Extract a CSV of your queue, create a custom variable with your saved emails inside of MS Excel or Google Sheets, reupload it and use it as a custom variable. Here is a more detailed instruction on how to work with custom fields.
- If you are trying to add whomever you want, but don’t know their emails, a solution for you would be to use our recent Snov.io integration, which allows you to automatically find emails of those who you try to invite. This is a rather effortless and automated process so we suggest you try it for yourself!
In order for this to execute successfully, you would just need to paste your Snov.io API credentials, which can be found here. Set up your free account, navigate to settings then the API section. Copy-paste them to Linked Helper and you are done.
Bonus: How to maximize the chances of your invitation being accepted?
As an active LinkedIn user, you are well aware that some people may be reluctant to accept invitations from 2nd or 3rd-level connections. We believe that if you make yourself known and show some interest prior to sending an invitation, some would find this to be a nice gesture and more likely to accept the invitation. Down below you can see how to use two of the new Linked Helper’s functions in order to break the ice and maximize your conversions.
- Profile Auto-Follower
One of the positive effects of following someone is that he or she gets a notification. This can be used to draw a person’s attention to your profile before sending an invite in order to increase the chance of the invite being accepted.
Both following and unfollowing work just like any other action in Linked Helper and can be added to your workflow. In the ‘General’ tab, you should set a name for the action, postpone the start of the action with the ‘Start At’ button and switch the mode to either ‘Follow’ or ‘Unfollow’ profiles. If you wish to explore how this function works on a deeper level and see how to use the ‘Delay’ and ‘Tags’ tabs here's a link to our detailed guide.
2. Like posts and articles.
Another possible solution to get yourself noted would be to like posts and articles of the person you wish to connect with. It is no surprise, that likes these days are universally accepted ‘currency and understood by almost everyone. This is especially true on LinkedIn, where reputation means a lot and one simple click can take you far.
Just like you do your regular business in Linked Helper, create a new campaign with ‘Like posts and articles, or simply add it to your current workflow. In the ‘General’ tab set a name for the action, choose your starting date, change the platform where the profiles will be processed (in fact, you can like posts and articles only in Basic LinkedIn, so the platform will be changed for the next Action provided that it can be carried out in that platform, otherwise the next Action will be executed in Basic LinkedIn as well) and select how many posts and articles will be liked. You can explore how to work with the ‘Delay’ and ‘Tags’ tabs in our detailed instruction here.
3. Run your campaign.
And that’s that — we are done! Now you can run your campaign and observe the whole process execute smoothly. We guarantee that this is a 100% secure and legit method to bypass the new LinkedIn weekly invitation limit.
Upon running, Linked Helper will either go to profile and company’s pages to extract company info, domain, then fetches email via Snov.io or go to the Import Contacts page directly if there are emails in the custom field.
Once the email from Snov.io is extracted, or in case the email was already uploaded into a custom field, Linked Helper will navigate to the Import Contacts page in LinkedIn, enters the email from its CRM to import and send connection requests.
As a result — the invitation will go out to users email and not to his/her LinkedIn profile and will look like this on your pending invitations page:
We suggest you take a look into another two of Linked Helper’s popular actions for lead generation, one of which allows you to pick out Open Profiles only and automatically send them your InMails, another makes it possible to message a large group of people who are members of the same group.
- Sending InMails to Open Profiles.
Most of you are already familiar with InMails and know that you are allowed to directly message other LinkedIn members that you’re not connected to, with a limitation of no more than 2000 characters. Unfortunately, LinkedIn wouldn’t let you search for people with Open Profiles directly. Linked Helper will. All you need to do is to set on the ‘Open link’ filter to ‘Yes’ in your CRM / campaign list. By following the same method you can delete everyone, who can’t receive free InMail messages. If you have any remaining questions, navigate to our detailed guide on this matter here.
2. Message LinkedIn group members.
One of the best practices to get your message to a large group of similar-minded individuals, would be to bulk message all members of a LinkedIn group. Just like most other actions in Linked Helper, this feature can be a campaign of its own, or be synchronized with your current workflow. Upon creating your campaign, you would need to collect people from the group you wish to message, here you have 3 options:
a. Collect profiles from the list of all group members
b. Collect profiles from the Sales Navigator search
c. Or the old-school method of importing contacts from CSV.
Upon double-checking your queue and reviewing your message run the campaign as usual! Learn more on how this function works here.
Note:
- Custom invitation message is not supported in this method due to LinkedIn limitations.
- If you enable both options to get emails from (see General settings below), then Linked Helper will prioritize the “Get emails from the custom field” option and in this case won’t visit profiles who already have custom fields with emails.
