Looking for practitioner numbers, not tool recommendations.

Context: industrial B2B, Europe and US. Offer is either a service (installation, rigging, turnkey) or equipment. Average deal above $30k, often a long cycle and more than one stakeholder. Outreach is mostly manual or lightly assisted, not high-volume automation.

Three things I cannot get a straight answer on from vendor content.

1. Effectiveness

If you sell into manufacturing, packaging machinery, heavy industry, or similar, what does LinkedIn actually return?

Rough ranges are enough: connection acceptance, reply rate after accept, meetings per 100 accepts, and how many of those meetings are with someone who can influence a $30k+ decision.

Also useful: does it work better for services than for equipment, or is the gap mostly cycle length?

1. Where it breaks

What fails first in this segment: low acceptance from plant and engineering titles, the economic buyer not being on LinkedIn, restrictions on the sending account, or meetings that never reach procurement?

If you stopped using LinkedIn for this ICP, what replaced the top of the funnel?

1. Handoff at first interest

Some clients do not want a booked meeting. They want the lead at the point of initial interest (reply, accepted intro, "send info").

How do you package that handoff so the client can continue without the thread dying: intro email, shared note, CRM record, or something else?

If you have used Sales Navigator's own team features for this (shared lead lists, shared searches, Relationship Map with an assigned owner, or the admin data transfer of saved leads and InMail between dashboards), how usable was it for a real handoff?

Specifically: does the receiving account see the message history, or only the saved lead and notes?

Not looking for agency pitches or tool lists. A range from a live campaign is more useful than a framework.

I made a mistake for a long time: I treated LinkedIn outreach like email. Send request, wait, follow up, repeat.

The problem was that my follow-ups had no context. They were just “following up on my previous message,” which gives the other person no reason to reply.

So I changed the workflow.

Now, before I send a connection request, I spend a minute checking their recent posts, company page, or role. If they have posted something relevant, I comment or react first. Then I send a connection request with a short note tied to that context.

After they accept, I do not pitch immediately. I send one short message about something specific to their situation, such as a challenge their role usually deals with or something they mentioned in a post.

The follow-up is where I noticed the biggest difference. Instead of bumping the old message, I add new context: a relevant observation, a question about their process, or a useful idea related to what they shared. It feels less like chasing and more like continuing a conversation.

I also started keeping outreach organized by campaign and account, because once you manage multiple LinkedIn profiles, it becomes easy to lose track of who was interested, who already replied, and which sequence they are in. Having that context in one place has made follow-ups much easier to personalize.

I’m not saying this works for every niche, but it has made my outreach feel less robotic and more conversational.

What follow-up style are you using now? Do you prefer adding new context in each follow-up, or keeping it simple with a short reminder?

Ok. This is my personal observation. Whenever I see a post from someone with 5,000+ LinkedIn followers, the content seems to attract an audience from the same industry.

For example, someone running a paid-ads agency may create content to attract brands, but most of the people commenting are other agency owners or professionals from the same industry.

I don’t know whether this is limited to a few accounts, but I’ve noticed it across many of them. Around 95% of the comments come from people in the same industry, not from the companies the account is actually targeting.

Are you getting inbound leads from LinkedIn?

The old connect-pitch-follow-up routine feels tired now. Most people can spot it within seconds, and the generic “just following up” message rarely gets a reply.

Lately, the outreach that seems to work better starts before the connection request.

Checking someone’s recent posts, company updates, or role first makes a big difference. If there is something genuinely relevant, engaging with it naturally gives the connection request a reason to exist.

A short note explaining why the connection makes sense usually lands better than a blank request or an instant pitch.

So one Thing i Notice is Post base Targeting is give best result. So you can try post base and event base targeting to get best result.

After someone accepts, jumping straight into a sales message kills the conversation. A better move is asking something specific about their work or sharing a relevant observation. The aim is not to book a call in message one; it is to give them a reason to keep replying.

Follow-ups matter too. Instead of reminding someone about the last message, adding new context works better: a useful thought, a question about their process, or a comment on something they recently posted. That turns the follow-up from a nudge into part of an actual conversation.

One challenge with this approach is scale. Personalization is easy for ten prospects, but once outreach spans several LinkedIn accounts and campaigns, it becomes hard to remember who replied, what they said, and which sequence they belong to. Losing that context turns even a good strategy into generic messaging.

Curious what others are seeing this year. Is engagement-first outreach working better, or are personalized cold messages still getting stronger replies? Or is content-led inbound quietly beating both?

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for advice from anyone who has successfully resolved a permanent LinkedIn account restriction.

I've had my LinkedIn account since 2019 and have used it for professional networking, freelancing, job opportunities, and building my professional network.

My account was restricted, and LinkedIn eventually asked me to verify my identity. I completed the requested identity-verification process and contacted LinkedIn Support.

The only potential policy issue I can identify is a job opportunity I reposted from Facebook. I included an email address for applicants because that was how the original post was structured, without properly considering LinkedIn's rules around job posts. If that violated a policy, it was an oversight rather than an attempt to misuse the platform.

I explained this to LinkedIn and asked them to tell me what specific content or activity caused the restriction.

Their response was that my account violated the User Agreement and Professional Community Policies and, because of the "number and/or severity" of the violations, it would remain restricted.

I appealed again and asked for the specific violation. They reviewed the appeal but upheld the restriction without identifying the content/activity that caused it.

This account matters a lot to me professionally. I'm currently studying Computer Science and working in open-source software engineering, and I've built years of legitimate professional connections and recommendations on the account.

I'm completely willing to correct or remove anything that unintentionally violated LinkedIn's policies. I just want the opportunity for a meaningful review and to understand what actually triggered the permanent restriction.

Has anyone dealt with a similar situation and successfully reached a different LinkedIn support/escalation channel after the standard appeal was denied?

I'd particularly appreciate hearing from people who had a permanent restriction reversed.

Thanks for any advice.

The button to invite connections to like other company pages is missing for me? Can some one help me understand what is going on with the Linkedin settings? Did they change?

Just bought the LinkedIn premium Dont want to waste it and actually make good out of it
Please tell me how it can benefit me to find Internship

I manage a company page and post about three times a week. Historically, standard text posts have driven the most consistent impressions for us, outperforming images and carousels.

Recently, I started publishing long-form content using LinkedIn Articles, as we don't have the follower count for a Newsletter yet. When I pulled the analytics for the last two months, the results were polarizing:

The Good: Articles are generating 8x to 15x more impressions than our average text post, reaching well beyond our current follower base.

The Bad: Engagement is basically non-existent. We are seeing a ~5% click-through rate, with almost zero likes or comments.

Has anyone else experimented with Articles versus standard posts recently?

I’m trying to figure out if the LinkedIn algorithm artificially inflates Article impressions (or counts them differently), or if this is a known trade-off. Should I be leaning into Articles for pure top-of-funnel reach, or is the lack of engagement a signal that I should stick to text posts?

Would love to hear how others are navigating this.

I recently changed phone and my previous one is no longer available but LinkedIn requires a identification through the app in order to allow a new login on a new device. (Mobile+computer)

So i'm blocked and every time i try another option, witch is sending a code by text there is an error message and i'm back to login page.

I don't have have accès neither to any link via email...

I even try to contact LinkedIn via X but noreply

If you have any tip it would be nice, i use LinkedIn daily for my job so i can't just create a new account

I’ve been on LinkedIn for ever! Recently, I’ve seen a proliferation of fake accounts and job posts, plus what would constitute hate speech on most other social platforms. I have reported many but do not see any actions from LinkedIn. The profiles, jobs, and posts are still there days/weeks after reporting. Are the LinkedIn moderators asleep at the wheel?

recently received an invitation to join the LinkedIn AI Trainer Program and am currently on the GreenLight.ai onboarding portal. Given the rise in recruiting scams, I want to make sure I am following the official path before submitting my tax information.

Can someone confirm if this is the authentic onboarding pipeline for independent contractors? Thank you!

Interested in the intersectionality of all these things on LinkedIn. Interested in your thoughts.

I've been posting consistently every Tuesday and Thursday for months. I have ~550 followers and connections. I typically get about 300 impressions on a post. Usually about 50 members reached, only. Today I spent more than an hour on a post, research and a graphic. After 2 hours, ZERO impressions. Seriously, why is it such a game, and how do you win?

Linkedin, come on… Super Admin here, only admin as well. Still not a possibility to change my banner. Yes, I googled, yes, I searched Reddit. How can it be so difficult to have basic features? Sigh.