Like, the person who comments and engages on the person's behalf can damage their reputation. Write by hacking my account, and I am damn sure the owner of that personal branding agency would not be sitting and doing engagement on my behalf. I'd like your take on this, or from people who work in LinkedIn personal branding agencies.
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Dripify is the best linkedin lead generation tool I've used, but only if you treat it as a linkedin lead finder first.
The strategy:
- Use Dripify's search URL importer to stockpile 500+ targeted connections.
- Send BLANK invites for 30 days (no pitch).
- THEN launch your sequence to warm leads.
Your reply rate doubles. Easily.
Why Dripify wins vs other linkedin automation tools for lead generation:
- Cloud-based = safer than browser extensions
- Smart Inbox = manage replies without logging into LinkedIn
- Conditional branching = different follow-ups based on prospect actions
One thing to know: Dripify won't find emails for you. You still need a separate tool if email is part of your multichannel play. For pure linkedin lead generation? It beats everything else I've tested.
Are you using Dripify as a sender or a lead finder?
Hey guys, we just wrapped one of our best performing outreach campaigns. 410 replies, 300+ positive, over around 30 days.
The reason I can share the full breakdown is that we ended the campaign. We changed our offer, so the sequence is dead and there's nothing to protect. Everything below is exactly how we ran it.
Results
Sequence overview
The sequence had four steps.
Here's how each one worked.
Step 1: Filter out existing connections + ICP scoring
The first node checked whether the sender was already connected with the lead.
After that, every remaining lead went through an ICP scoring step before we sent a single connection request.
Our ICP is broad so we just used "Founder, owner, CEO, SDR, GTM expert, or Executive". Anyone that didn't matched that were removed from the workflow. We used a built in AI feature for this.
Out of 4,723 leads, 2,484 leads matched our ICP. That's the pool we actually contacted.
Step 2: The connection request (blank)
We sent every connection request with no note. I don't believe in connection notes. It mostly comes down to number of mutual connections, your profile picture, and your headline. Sometimes the location matters as well (mainly when targeting the US market).
Our acceptance rate was 61%, meaning 1,259 accepted out of 2,058.
The acceptance rate was consistent across all LinkedIn senders, regardless of follower count and gender.
Step 3: The message
After someone accepted, we waited 15 minutes and sent this:
What made it work was the anchor. Instantly and Smartlead are tools people in this space already know. Saying "like that, but for LinkedIn" gives them an instant frame of reference without needing a long explanation.
When leads responded positively, we just sent them a link to our AppSumo page. I don't have the exact conversion metrics for this, but our AppSumo campaign generated over $500K in gross sales and I have confirmed that $25K came from this campaign, but it is likely a lot more than that.
The setup
Account safety
We got zero restrictions on the campaign accounts across 45 days.
The accounts belonged to my girlfriend, friends, and team members. Most of them started from zero connections around 6 months ago and were built up organically before we used them for outreach.
One thing worth being transparent about: my personal account and our two founder accounts did get banned. That had nothing to do with the campaign or the tool we used. Our company breaks LinkedIn's terms of service at the platform level, the same reason Heyreach got banned earlier this year. Every other account we used is still active.
If you're running outreach through your own account or a client's account without that kind of platform-level exposure, the risk profile looks very different.
Happy to answer questions on any part of this. Drop them below.
LinkedIn is now scanning for browser extensions (6,000+ detected). That means any LinkedIn scraper running locally is a huge risk.
So LinkedIn web scraping needs a new approach.
Is anyone here safely using cloud-based tools for linkedin data scraping right now? I need a linkedin scraping tool that:
- Runs fully in the cloud (no extension)
- Exports from Sales Navigator
- Won't get my account banned
What's actually working in 2026?
Hey everyone,
I've been doing LinkedIn outreach manually for a while now, and honestly, it's eating up way too much of my time. I'm looking for a tool that can help me streamline the whole process end-to-end.
Here's what I need it to do:
- Filter & find leads – search by job title, industry, location, company size, etc.
-Send connection requests – ideally with a personalized note
-Automated follow-up messages – after they accept, send a sequence without me having to babysit it
-Personalisation – not just {{first_name}} stuff, something that actually feels human
If you're using something that's working well for you, drop it below! Would love to hear real experiences over marketing fluff. Bonus points if you've compared a couple of tools.
Thanks in advance. 🙌
Hey everyone, I built Linki a few months ago as a free self-hosted alternative to Waalaxy and Lemlist. Back then it was a basic LinkedIn sequencer. I just shipped a huge update and it's now a proper AI SDR, so wanted to share what changed.
What is Linki (for those who don't know)
Self-hosted LinkedIn automation + cold email with an AI agent that writes every message for each lead individually. No SaaS middleman, no per-seat pricing, your data stays on your machine. You connect any model via OpenRouter (Claude, GPT-4o, Mistral, whatever).
What's new in this version
The AI agent is now the center of everything. There's a 3-layer prompt system: global context about your business and offer, campaign-level instructions, then per-step prompts. The agent writes with full context instead of just filling a template.
LinkedIn + email in the same campaign now. So you can do visit, connect, wait 2 days, send a LinkedIn message, wait 3 days, send a cold email. All in one sequence.
Unified inbox. All email replies from all your campaigns show up in one place. LinkedIn reply detection too.
Apollo enrichment built in. Connect your Apollo key, click enrich on any list, get verified emails and company data.
Big reliability improvement on the LinkedIn automation itself. Rewrote the DOM targeting and message delivery, about 63% improvement in connection reliability. Also added randomized pacing on imports to avoid bot detection.
AI cost tracking. Every generation is logged with model, token count, and cost. You always know what you're spending.
Hosting
Docker compose or manual Node.js. Or one-click on Opsily if you don't want to deal with the terminal. SQLite, no external DB needed.
Repo: github.com/moaljumaa/linki
Enjoyy!!!
I was using a Chrome extension tool at the time. Sending around 40 connection requests a day, which felt conservative. But i still got flagged.
At the beginning i thought it was the volume so i cut down to 20 requests/day. But then a friend of mine suggested that it doesn’t really have to do with the volume.
It’s how the activity looks to LinkedIn.
Chrome extension tools run on top of your browser from your laptop's IP.
LinkedIn has been shown to snoop on people and to see what browser extensions they've installed in their banned accounts because of that.
The other thing I didn't realize: I was sending requests at the same intervals every day. Which got super predictable. Real people don't use LinkedIn like a cron job.
So, what I changed:
Switched to a cloud-based tool with a dedicated IP per account. Activity runs on their servers, not my device.
Consistent IP, randomized timing, laptop being off is irrelevant. I’ve been on SalesRobot about a year now, 0 issues since.
Safe mode is on the whole time. Now i’m sending around 50 requests a day, randomized across the day rather than batched at the same time.
The warning was useful. I was running outreach in the laziest way possible and didn't think about what it looked like from LinkedIn's side until they made me.
I tried to buy LinkedIn accounts 3 times. First seller ghosted. Second sent me accounts that needed phone verification instantly. Third one lasted 2 weeks then asked for a selfie.
Complete waste of money.
Then someone told me to stop trying to buy verified LinkedIn accounts from random Telegram groups and just use Aimfox's rented profiles.
They call them "Outreach Avatars”: you pay monthly and they give you a ready-to-go account inside their system. No proxies, no warming up, no getting scammed.
Does it cost more than trying to buy an old LinkedIn account for $30? Yes, but I've been running one for almost a month now with zero bans.
Also tried to buy a LinkedIn account with connections once and those connections were all bots anyway. Useless.
What works if you still want to buy raw:
- Use a dedicated proxy (don't log in from your home IP).
- Warm the account for 7-10 days manually before turning on automation.
- Stay under 80 actions/day for the first month.
But if you just want it to work without the headache, the Aimfox rented avatars are the only thing that's actually delivered for me.
Ask me anything if you're struggling with bans. Happy to share what didn't work too (which is most of it).
so last month i was doing manual linkedin outreach, creating multiple accounts, sending connection requests one by one, spending 3 to 4 hours daily and barely getting any replies.
someone told me to try a linkedin automation tool, i was skeptical honestly but i tried it anyway.
first week i got 23 replies, second week i got 5 clients. i literally just set it up and let it run in the background while i was doing other work.
if you're still doing manual outreach in 2026 you're just hurting yourself.
what tools are you guys currently using for linkedin outreach? would love to hear what's working for others 👇
There was a thread here asking how to run LinkedIn outreach without getting banned and I started typing a reply that got out of hand, so I'm just posting it as its own thing.
We're a small B2B team doing our own outbound, and the LinkedIn side of it used to live inside Dripify, which worked fine until one day it didn't and we caught a soft warning. the per-seat pricing was also creeping up as we added people, so we went looking for something that wouldn't trip LinkedIn's automation flags in the first place.
Then I came across a YouTube video from a founder demoing a Claude Code skill that pulls LinkedIn event attendees (those events where people RSVP to webinars or conferences) and runs them through FullEnrich to produce a CSV of verified emails and mobile numbers, all in about 10 minutes for a 40-person event.
the thing that sold me was the approval gate, it refuses to spend an API credit until you confirm by typing yes, so I tried it on an event the same afternoon and most attendees came back with verified contacts, which was enough to keep me poking at it.
The github project from the video is called yalc, and it's basically a folder of Claude Code skills (markdown files) that you point at your own API keys.
we kept FullEnrich for the enrichment, plugged Unipile's API in for everything LinkedIn-side (connection requests, messages, profile views), pulled Apify in to scrape attendees off event pages, and kept Notion as the data layer underneath everything.
The bill dramatically collapsed because we stopped paying for dashboards we barely used.
On the rate-limit side, we set things deliberately low because LinkedIn's enforcement has gotten stricter and we don't want to keep losing accounts.
we cap connection requests at 15 a day per account, leave at least 2 days between any 2 messages to the same person, and never follow up more than once if the first message goes unanswered.
it's slower than what Dripify defaulted us to, but the soft warnings stopped completely.
There's a real catch though, you have to be okay running everything through a terminal since Claude Code lives in your CLI, and someone on the team needs to be able to read a markdown file or you'll get lost fast.
my first week was rough because I kept reaching for a dashboard out of habit and there wasn't one, but by week two, it was second nature.
Cost is API-only now, which works out to about 80 bucks a month.
Happy to share the setup if anyone wants to see it.
any recommendations for Linkedin content agents? like an agent that researches, comes up with posts and post them?
I vibe coded a LinkedIn outreach automation tool from scratch, and made ~$2k in the first month 🫨
It started out as a random idea I had when talking to Claude, and I had no idea I could even build it, but I gave myself no choice.
Last year I decided to register a business, even though all I had was the website and a dream.
That way I felt forced to actually create the LinkedIn automation tool itself, simply for legal/taxation reasons if nothing else.
I knew I had a unique idea as the tool itself automates via a browser, instead of automating via the cloud or with a plugin, making it significantly safer when it comes to possible LinkedIn suspensions from automating.
I had no idea what I was doing at first and it was super buggy for a while, but over time I learned step by step and through trial and error how to build (mostly) effectively with Claude and how to build on top of LinkedIn’s code too (which is extremely challenging).
I was confident enough in the tool to launch it on April 1, and a month later I’m almost at 100 users. Most of them are on free trials but so far I made $2k from paying customers, which covered the costs of actually building the platform and then some.
It took a few months of 12 hour days and late nights but now it feels like it’s finally starting to pay off.
Hope I can inspire anyone else starting out to just keep going with whatever you’re doing/building 🚀
I'm building a fully automated cold outreach system for B2B lead generation and wanted to share my planned stack + get feedback from people who've done something similar and want to know is it possible or not.
The workflow I need to automate:
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Questions for the community:
- Any compliance landmines (GDPR, CAN-SPAM, CASL) I should be aware of when targeting EU/Canada/UK leads?
- Legal exposure if someone opts out and the system doesn't catch it fast enough?
- Any technical failure points I'm underestimating?
- LinkedIn: I know they're aggressive about automation detection. What limits are safe? Has anyone been restricted or banned running connection requests at 20/day?
- Email: Deliverability issues with automated sequences? SPF/DKIM/DMARC a must?
- Any tricks to stay under the radar without compromising volume?
Hey guys,
I have been doing Linkedin outreach at scale for a while now and just wanted to share my numbers averaging across my campaigns to get an idea if I am doing good or not.
I have been sending 300 reqs a day, 6 days a week. And here are my numbers --
If you also do Linkedin outreach at scale, would love to know about your numbers and any tips for me to improve.
I used to copy-paste linkedin outreach messages and got ignored. A lot.
Then I tried a few linkedin outreach automation tools. Got a warning from LinkedIn on one. Almost quit.
What I learned: most people blame the tool when their messaging just sucks.
What worked for me:
I use Dripify now. Not because I love another subscription, but because it keeps me safe and actually works for linkedin prospecting.
My simple setup:
- Day 1: Connection request + short personal note (no selling).
- Day 3: "Hey [name], quick question: what's your biggest headache with [topic]?”.
- Day 7: "Not spamming you. Just curious if you solved [problem]."
No links. No PDFs. No "hop on a call" crap.
Results?
- 65% accept rate
- Reply rate: ~12% (connection → actual conversation)
- Zero bans (so far…)
Dripify is not perfect. Their support once took 4 days to answer me... And yeah, $59/month stings. But for linkedin prospecting that feels human? It's the best linkedin outreach tool I have personally used.
You automating yet? Happy to share my message templates if anyone wants them. Just comment.
tldr; 30 Warmed-Up LinkedIn Accounts Available for Rent — $29/month
Hey guys, been doing LinkedIn outreach for years. The biggest bottleneck to scaling isn't the messaging - it's scaling accounts.
So I built my own warmup system from scratch that lets me grow new accounts.
I am renting accounts:
The Accounts
Why this beats the market
Most providers charge $100+/month per account and still cap you at 25–30 connections/day. Worse — if the account gets flagged, your entire lead list disappears with it.
These accounts are warmed up gradually, kept under LinkedIn's radar, and priced at $29/month — a fraction of what you'd pay elsewhere.
Who this is for
Our team was using automation tools to run LinkedIn outreach and we got two accounts restricted last month.
Limits are tighter now and LinkedIn flags anything that looks bot-like. We still need to reach 100 new prospects per week for our web dev agency. I am looking at LinkedIn marketing services that do manual work plus light automation within TOS.
Has anyone shifted from tools like Expandi or Zopto to a managed service? I need consistent volume without risking profiles. What does compliance look like and what kind of reply rates are realistic now.
I'm rebuilding my outbound stack.
My biggest bottleneck right now is trying to find email on LinkedIn without copy/pasting into a separate tool. So I started testing Dripify.
They claim you can run everything (LinkedIn action → linkedin email finder → send email) inside one workflow. But is it actually good?
Here's what I need to know from actual users:
Has it matched your reality? I need to find email on LinkedIn for real B2B decision‑makers. Not generic info@ addresses.
How does their linkedin email extractor work with 2nd or 3rd degree connections?
If I set up a drip campaign, can I add a rule like "If Dripify finds an email → send email. If not → continue with LinkedIn message only”?
I don't want to waste credits on unverified data.
They mention pre‑verification in their docs. How accurate is it?
Why Dripify (for context)
I'm moving away from manual Chrome extensions. Dripify is cloud‑based, so I don't have to keep my laptop open.
That alone is a win. But I'm worried their linkedin email finder is just an expensive add‑on.
Most LinkedIn outreach fails for one of three reasons: the personalization doesn't survive volume, follow-up is inconsistent, and there's no clear line between AI and human in the conversation. Here's how we fixed each.
Personalization at scale
Before any message is written, every prospect goes through 5 enrichment passes, recent LinkedIn posts, company website copy, active job listings, funding news, and a synthesized one-sentence insight about what that person is focused on right now. If no strong insight exists, the prospect gets skipped. No insight, no message. This one rule eliminates a huge chunk of generic outreach before it's ever sent.
Follow-up that actually happens
Most SDRs know deals need 5+ touches. Most stop at 2, not because they don't care, but because 200 active accounts means things get buried. We run a 4-touch automated sequence: Day 0, 4, 9, 16. Each touch layers in a different signal rather than restating the opener. Touch 1 uses the LinkedIn post insight. Touch 2 pulls from job postings. Touch 3 is shorter and acknowledges they're busy. Touch 4 closes the loop without pressure.
A real escalation rule
The system handles the 5 most common early replies, "not the right time," "send more info," "who are you," "we already have something." But the moment someone shows real buying intent, it hands off to a human immediately. The AI never books the meeting. That boundary is what keeps the conversation quality high once it matters.
The whole stack, Sales Navigator, Clay for enrichment, Claude API for messaging, a LinkedIn automation tool, and Make. com for orchestration, runs around $370-$520/month. The output is a pipeline of ICP-matched, pre-warmed conversations that reps step into rather than start from scratch.
Anyone here used exeed ai for Linkedin content? I wanna make sure it's safe to connect my LinkedIn account to it for scheduling before I do that.
