On one hand, LinkedIn gathers, hosts, protects and organizes our data so that it is the best place for professionals to meet, exchange, learn and work together. They do a pretty great job and are useful to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Bravo!
Profile View Generator
Connection Invites
Sequential Messaging
InMail Messages
Twitter Engagement
Target Imported Lists
Advanced Reporting
Profile page extractions
Search result extractions
LinkedIn profile/company finders
Extracting your contacts' URLs
Post/article extractions
Liker/commented extractions
Group member extractions
Connecting, Like, Commenting Actions
Rate limits are a constraint, sure, but a beautiful one. You can choose to see them as a blessing rather than a curse:
- Choose quality over quantity
- Target your prospects better
- Customize your prospection messages better
- Handle each answer as if it were your only one
- Realize each person you're connecting to is a real human being
Get into this mindset and you'll realize sooner rather than later that sending 80 messages per day and handling every single response is MUCH MORE than you can handle.
First, let's get inside LinkedIn's head: What do they want? Real people, giving them real information (as much as possible), keeping it fresh, and eventually becoming paid users.
The more they have what they want, the more they will reward users with greater visibility and access to information.
So for instance, a very new account with 0 connections, no school, no companies, no picture, etc. will not be able to send as many connection requests as a 10-year-old account with thousands of connections and 2 hours of daily connecting.
Here is an (incomplete) list of factors that will have an impact on your own unique rate limits:
- Whether you have a paid subscription
- Date of profile creation
- Completeness of the profile
- Number of connections/followers
- Time spent per day on LinkedIn
- Number of messages sent per day
- How many articles and publications you're posting
- How many comments or likes you're giving