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We’re Growth-Hacking LinkedIn. Here’s How. — We Did it

We’re Growth-Hacking LinkedIn. Here’s How. — We Did it | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

As a B2B startup, we’ve found LinkedIn really powerful in pin-pointing new potential customers. Where LinkedIn falls down is actually connecting with those people (does anybody actually read their LinkedIn messages?… mine is just filled with InMail spam from recruiters). Fortunately we’ve worked out a couple of tricks.


Email Hunter and ReplyApp.io combo.

The Email Hunter Chrome extension will find anybody’s email address from their LinkedIn profile. Does it work 100% of the time?… no, but it’s pretty damn good.


Once we’ve identified the person we want to contact, at the touch of a button we’ll (almost always) have their email. That’s where  ReplyApp.io comes in.


ReplyApp.io automates your sales outreach. Essentially you can pre-write follow-up emails that are sent only if you don’t get a reply. With all the time you save not having to follow people up, it will feel like your sales team has been multiplied by 2 or 3. We love it and are very happy to have finally made the discovery after researching about 20 different competitors (in fact I’ll write a separate blog post on this if anybody is interested, because finding the right tool was painful — we were using our own custom solution for a while)...

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Ed Moyse shares several useful LinkedIn hacks.

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Don’t Send Another Cold Message on LinkedIn Until You Read This

Don’t Send Another Cold Message on LinkedIn Until You Read This | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

There are many advocates of using a mutual LinkedIn connection as the basis of reaching out to a prospect, but I think the process in practice is flawed. There are far more direct ways to get into a conversation with a prospect with far better results.


To recap what the LinkedIn connection outreach process typically looks like:

-  Build a list of prospects you want to talk to.

-  Mine their profiles for mutual connections.

-  Email the mutual connection and ask them if you could use their name in a message to your prospect, or even ask them to make the recommendation themselves.

-  Send an email to the prospect saying you have a shared contact that trusts you, and therefore the two of you should talk.


I have tested this extensively. I’ve had some successes and quite a few failures too. After reflecting a bit, there are three main reasons I’d suggest this is no longer an effective strategy....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Sales prospecting on LinkedIn is no longer an effective strategy unless you change your strategy.

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