{"id":4838,"date":"2015-09-25T20:17:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T00:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=4838"},"modified":"2015-09-25T20:25:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T00:25:26","slug":"linkedin-premium-33-success-rate-with-inmail-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/linkedin-premium-33-success-rate-with-inmail-function\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn Premium : 33% success rate with InMail function"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently upgraded to the Premium membership at LinkedIn, the global network of professionals.<\/p>\n

It’s not that I desired to expand my 500+ business connections much further. After all, one has to be selective with their contacts, or things like this<\/strong><\/a> happen.<\/p>\n

In this case, I was interested in getting in touch with LinkedIn members that I’m several degrees of separation apart.<\/p>\n

Reaching out to those people was part of an investigation to identify the trails of a group of domain thieves, and as the investigation is ongoing, I will save these details for another time.<\/p>\n

As a Premium LinkedIn member, one can use InMail<\/strong> – the dedicated, internal communication that lands in one’s LinkedIn mailbox.<\/p>\n

Surely, that feature could be abused – and has been abused<\/em> – by spammers or overzealous recruiters alike.<\/p>\n

But the fact remains, that it’s a valuable communication delivery tool at a professional level, whether the unconnected party is an executive or a domain investor.<\/p>\n

Having sent out notices with a short introduction to 3 people that I’m not connected to, I have so far heard back from one, several days later. So I will count the success rate of LinkedIn InMail to be 33%, with the added caveat that the success rate most likely depends on your target.<\/p>\n

If your targeted contact is offline, or ignores prompts to visit their LinkedIn account to retrieve their mail, your attempts will fail. After all, once needs to be a consciously active member of LinkedIn, or any other community, in order to use it.<\/p>\n

Still, I am satisfied with the outcome, and hope to integrate this level of membership into my future contact attempts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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