Have you ever been restricted or blocked by LinkedIn? If yes, then you might be familiar with the pain of losing a well-established LinkedIn account. If you had important connections, losing an account could be a headache. Well, there could be many reasons for it. Many people say that they lost their accounts because of LinkedIn automation tools.
Is that true? Yes, that’s true! Some users in the past got their LinkedIn accounts blocked but that doesn’t mean the problem was LinkedIn automation.
Don’t get me wrong but to be honest, I also prefer to use the best LinkedIn automation tools to automate some of the repetitive tasks and I also recommend it to others. It’s because I believe that you must be within LinkedIn’s terms and conditions while using automation tools and must have the right strategy in mind!
If you want to prospect on LinkedIn with safety, here is the list of the dos and don’ts
1. Don’t spam
By this, I mean don’t send excessive LinkedIn connection requests and templated messages over the night. LinkedIn doesn’t like it when you use third-party tools to extract data to connect with people. Whenever you do it, it suspects such an activity, it restricts or blocks your account right away.
To avoid this, start small and use a conservative approach. Set a limit that is within LinkedIn’s standards and increases it slowly from time to time. Use LinkedIn automation tools that have an auto warm-up feature.
2. Only automate repetitive tasks
Personally, I use free LinkedIn automation tools to automate tasks like searching, engaging, connecting, and sending messages. I use advanced LinkedIn automation tools that offer a feature that helps me make my connect notes and messages personalized and relevant to the respective prospect.
My rule of thumb is: spend some money on a good tool that won’t engage, connect or send messages to the wrong persons.
Dos
Send personalized messages
Personalization is crucial to building meaningful relationships. Why I have been successfully generating leads using LinkedIn automation tools is because I prefer a tool — LinkedCamp that has a feature to send personalized connect notes and messages.
No one likes to engage or connect with a bot so make sure your messages don’t sound spammy or irrelevant.
