Linkedin recently implemented a new limitation on connection request. This completely changes the way you should prospect and network.
Linkedin Connection Request Limit
Here we answer all your question about linkedin connection request limit:
- How many connection requests can I send on Linkedin?
- How many linkedin connections can you send per day?
- How to react when you hit the linkedin invitation limit?
- How to bypass linkedin connection request limitation?
- What are the consequence of the connection request limit?
1. How many connection requests can I send on Linkedin in a day?
You can send around 100 connections requests per week. That means an average of 20 invitations per business day. This limit is not strict.
It will depend on:
- Your daily activity
- Your number of connections
- The age of your account
This limitation is relatively new. It only exists since June 2021. Before that every Linkedin user was able to sent up to 100 connections request per day (500-700 hundreds per week)
During this summer 2021, many people started to see this message: “You’ve reached the weekly invitation limit”
This change had a huge impact on the way people prospect on linkedin because the weekly prospecting capacity has been divided by 7.
2. How many linkedin connections can you send per day?
You can send up to 20 connection request per day on average. This is not a fixed number as linkedin impose a weekly limitation, not a daily limitation.
Let’s say you can send up to 100 connection requests in a week. You can send 60 connections request in one day and then 10 per day for the rest of the week. What matters is the number of connection requests you send per week.
3. How to react when you hit the linkedin invitation limit?
If you hit the linkedin invitation limit:
- Stop send invitations for 2-3 days
- Send a few manual connection requests after a 2-3 days
- Relaunch your automation software if the manual connection request worked
Never relaunch your linkedin automation software before making a manual test!
4. How to bypass linkedin connection request limitation?
You can send up to 100 invitations per day if you use tools like LaGrowthMachine.
This tool allows you to easily bypass linkedin weekly limitation. They use the email invite feature to increase your connection request capacity.
The email invite feature allows you to send connection requests to people using their linkedin account email.
To send a connection request through email, go to My Network > More Options below Add Personal contact
Then you’ll be able to choose between different option:
- Invite your email address book (Gmail contact for example)
- Copy and paste email addresses
- Upload a CSV
Once you added the emails, Linkedin will show you all the profile that matched.
You will have to select manually all the people you want to connect with (Linkedin does not allow doing this in bulk to prevent spam)
This process is really painful to do manually if you got a lot of people to invite. Tools like LaGrowthMachine help you automate this process.
They also automatically find the linkedin email addresses of the people so you don’t have to do this job yourself.
5. What are the consequence of the connection request limit?
You only have 100 bullets per week. You better spend some time clearly identifying your targets instead of connecting with random people.
Imagine you are building a 500 lines lead list. If there are 200 unqualified leads in it, you will spend two business week doing linkedin outreach on people outside your target.
To improve the accuracy of your lead list, one thing you can do is to use Sales Linkedin Sales Navigator.
It is much more powerful than the basic Linkedin search engine. It offers more advanced search filters and allows you to build target lead and account list for your prospecting.
Plus, more and more people are doing linkedin outreach so mass messaging people clearly don’t work anymore.
Defining who will receive your message is 70% of the job. If you know you are talking to the right people, finding the words will be easy.
Finding emails from sales navigator is always a great way to reach out to them directly without sending a connection request.
Linkedin Connections Limit
Here we answer all your question about linkedin connections limit:
- How many connections can you have on linkedin?
- Can I have more than 30,000 connections on LinkedIn?
- How to react when you reach linkedin connections limit?
1. How many connections can you have on linkedin?
You can have a maximum of 30,000 connections on linkedin. After hitting this limit, “Follow” will become the only option available on your profile and you won’t be able to send connection request anymore.
2. Can I have more than 30,000 connections on LinkedIn?
No. You can’t have more than 30,000 first degree connections on Linkedin but you can have an unlimited number of followers.
People won’t be able to communicate with you through Linkedin message, but they will be able to see and comment your post
If you want to have more than 30,000 connection, what you can do is create another linkedin account
3. How to react when you reach linkedin connections limit?
If you reach this limit you have the ability to become a linkedin influencer. Take care of this opportunity to activate creator mode and display your number of followers.
