What LinkedIn connection request volume do you recommend daily and weekly for a 2‑year‑old account versus a brand‑new account?

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What LinkedIn connection request volume do you recommend daily and weekly for a 2‑year‑old account versus a brand‑new account?

Unfortunately, LinkedIn is very sensitive to connection request volumes. For a totally new account, I’d suggest about 10‑15 requests per day (roughly 105 per week); LinkedIn will likely throttle you around 100 per week, so you may get blocked eventually—just a notice to slow down. For a 2‑year‑old account with 250 connections and prior messaging, you can probably do around 20 requests per day. If you have LinkedIn Premium, you’ll get better results.

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How can I scale LinkedIn outbound outreach beyond the daily limit of about 100‑150 connection requests?

LinkedIn safely allows roughly 100‑150 connection requests per day before you risk a ban. To scale beyond that you’d need to purchase additional LinkedIn accounts, which runs into the same moral and legal concerns as buying email accounts. Most companies in the Netherlands worry about GDPR, so if you target US prospects or route outreach through your own company the risk is lower. Ultimately, the only realistic path to higher volume is to use multiple accounts, but that reintroduces the same issues you’re trying to avoid.

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What do you think about using five LinkedIn accounts to send 100 connection requests per day each?

I start by warming up the conversation with genuine compliments and curiosity before mentioning what I do; it’s about building real connections first and sharing the offer naturally. It’s hard to say whether this is a good idea because it depends on implementation. I generally don’t like the ‘real connections first’ approach because pretending to follow someone long‑term just to connect can feel misleading. Some people do like it, and if done intelligently it can work. Sending 100 connection requests per day on each of five accounts, with a limit of about 100 conversations per day, means you can only pursue roughly 50 new leads daily if you also need to follow up with a sales message. Anyway, Dale Land wants to connect—feel free to hit him up.

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I have a recruitment client who wants outreach via Facebook, LinkedIn, and WhatsApp numbers, but I can’t find the correct profiles of CEOs. How can I source these profiles and what are the realistic daily limits for sending messages on these platforms?

You’re limited by each platform’s daily caps – roughly 30 friend requests on Facebook, 20‑30 connection requests on LinkedIn depending on your account, and only a few WhatsApp messages per number. The best approach is to combine these channels with email, but if the client insists on Facebook/LinkedIn/WhatsApp, you have to work within those limits. For LinkedIn, you can pull CEO profiles easily using tools like Apollo and then feed them into Appify to get LinkedIn URLs. Facebook is trickier; you can use a Facebook search scraper or Appify’s user search by feeding names, but it’s a pain and not the most effective outbound channel. In short, use LinkedIn scraping tools, consider Facebook search scrapers if you must, but focus on email for scale.

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How do I handle multi-channel outreach with limits on emails, SMS, and LinkedIn per day?

Yes, multi-channel outreach is the way to go—hit prospects with your offer across email, LinkedIn, X, and Instagram to maximize visibility. However, each platform has different daily thresholds: about 30 emails per mailbox, 10-15 cold SMSs, and around 20 LinkedIn messages (unless you have a premium account). To work within these limits, use the lowest threshold (SMS) as the bottleneck for all channels. This means you’ll be constrained by the SMS limit, which can be challenging, but multi-channel is still highly recommended.

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