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The LinkedIn outreach setup checklist

Everything to tick off before your first invitation goes out, and every week after. Where a box has a number, it comes from LinkedIn's Help pages, a named public benchmark or ZenMode's own settings, and it says which.

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What's inside

  • Account prep and profile: what LinkedIn documents for free, Premium and Sales Navigator, and what it doesn't
  • A Sales Navigator list you could actually finish, sized to the weekly pace you plan
  • The connection note: inside LinkedIn's 200-character limit, and about them
  • Follow-ups and pacing: three follow-ups, about three days apart
  • Five numbers to check every Friday, and a table of when to pause

How it was put together

LinkedIn rules quoted from its Help pages. Benchmarks are named public datasets (Expandi, Reachium). Rules of thumb and ZenMode settings are labelled as ours.

The longer write-up is on the blog: LinkedIn Cold Outreach Best Practices That Actually Get Replies in 2026.

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