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what if you engaged with prospects on Linkedin BEFORE the connection request? i tried it
Posted by on March 31, 2026 at 6:35 pmstarted running a little experiment in january that kinda changed how i think about linkedin outreach instead of sending cold connection requests straight away I spent a week engaging with prospects first, like their posts, leave a real comment, sometimes share something they wrote.
after like 5-7 touches I sent the request with a short note that actually referenced what we'd talked about. nothing fancy, just showed I wasn't a bot ran it against a control group, same type of profiles, straight cold outreach, no warmup. the difference was not subtle at all honestly i think most people skip this step because it feels slow or extra. but it just changes the whole dynamic of the conversation before it even starts
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i actually built this whole thing into a sequence, view profile, wait a bit, like something, wait a few more days, drop a comment, then hit connect. the timing between steps matters more than people think. too fast and it still reads like spam even if you did engage
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Quality of comments matters a ton here btw. Commenting “Great post!” is worse than not commenting at all. ppl remember who adds something real vs who’s clearly just farming visibility
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was the message in the request different between groups or identical
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