Automate Connection Requests – Letterdrop

What does it do?

This tool sequences out connection requests in over time to a provided list in a safe manner.

Why connect with prospects?

When you connect with someone, you unlock 2 valuable assets:

They start following you - if you’ve been struggling to connect via call or email or just can’t keep sending more touch points, this is a great way to stay top of mind

You can DM them - not as crowded as your email inbox and guaranteed to be seen. However, it’s single threaded and you can be blocked if you abuse it. Most people ignore InMails on principle but not DMs.

Don’t be like them in the dreaded Other tab

If you spruce up your LinkedIn profile to look like a helpful sales page instead of a resume and are talking about the problems you solve that are relevant to buyers, they’ll be more likely to connect with you. Great profiles can see a 20% acceptance rate.

150 requests/week * 52 week * 20% acceptance rate = 1,560 new buyers every year who are now following you and you can DM any time.

Where do I find prospects to connect with?

Method 1: CSV

You can upload a CSV with a single column called profile that contains LinkedIn profile URLs.

Here is a spreadsheet template you can use.

You can optionally add a column for message and email to add a first message and bypass LinkedIn members who require you to enter their email to connect.

Best practice is to not send a message in connection requests unless it’s very relevant. Blank sees higher acceptance rate than a generic message like “Hi {first_name}, I’d like to connect”

Method 2: SalesNav or LinkedIn Search List

You can perform a search for prospects either in LinkedIn or LinkedIn Sales Nav and copy/paste the URL. Note that this works on your own browser so you need access to SalesNav yourself.

Select the pages you want to scrape leads from to send connection requests. Fro your safety, there is a hard limit of 8 pages at once.

You will be emailed a CSV of the scraped prospects and they will automatically be added to your connect queue.

I sent too many connection requests

We gotchu. There’s a Withdraw old connection requests checkbox you can select. When selected, we periodically go through all outstanding connection requests that are over 1 month old and withdraw them.

Now you can send a connection request again in 3 weeks and don’t accumulate unaccepted requests (which LinkedIn doesn’t like).

Safety and rate limits

You can send ~100-150 connection requests per week depending on your LinkedIn tier: Premium, SalesNav, etc.

We rate limit how many requests we send out on your behalf to 10/day so that you stay within safe limits. This gives you enough buffer to send your own one off requests and still stay comfortably under the limit.