We-Connect helps you automate InMails to certain premium members. These members are called “open profile” members. In other words, you can send messages to open profiles without connecting with them. The messages are sent as free InMails from your LinkedIn account, as in the screenshot below.
This process enables you to reach out to more contacts without waiting for an accepted connection request or worrying about running out of InMail credits.
How to send an InMail on We-Connect
We-Connect can identify open profiles during import, so you can send them free InMails in a campaign. You can do this when importing a list, or when importing contacts directly while creating a new campaign.
When importing contacts from a LinkedIn search, check the Import Open Profiles Only box under Connection Type. We-Connect will then verify each profile during import and add only open profiles to your list.
When enabled, We-Connect will check each profile individually during import to verify open profile status. Only contacts with open profiles will be added to your list.
Please note: This option will make your import significantly slower and increases the number of LinkedIn actions on your account, which may affect your account's safety limits. We recommend using it on smaller searches only.
Once your contacts are imported, build your sequence, including an InMail step.
Note: We recommend only sending InMails to 2nd or 3rd-degree connections. For 1st-degree connections, send them a normal message.
Finish settings up your campaign, choosing an action limit and any advanced filters.
Review and launch your campaign (or schedule it for a later date).
Note:
You can’t send a follow-up or a second InMail message to a LinkedIn member until they respond to your initial InMail. LinkedIn does not allow this. Please see this article from LinkedIn.
We recommend using the search URL method for saving a search if you want We-Connect to automatically identify open profiles. We cannot automatically identify open profiles from a CSV file.
We-Connect can map the 'Open profiles' and 'Premium' badges from Sales Navigator and Recruiter searches, however, we cannot map it when you import lead lists.
Open profiles are by default premium members but all premium members are not open profiles.
Other filter shows all profiles, excluding open profiles and premium profiles.
How Free InMails Work with Your Sales Navigator Plan?
If you are on a Sales Navigator (SN) plan, LinkedIn limits the free InMail message to open profile to be sent via the Sales Navigator inbox, this cannot be bypassed. Due to this limitation, LinkedIn creates a separate message thread distinct from the inbox in regular LinkedIn. Consequently, a conversation with a single person can exist across two different threads. We-Connect syncs both inboxes, so users may see multiple threads for the same person if a conversation is initiated in the Sales Navigator inbox.