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LinkedIn and multi-touch messaging

Use one lesson detail to answer "What's the right job for a LinkedIn connection request when prospecting a skeptical engineering buyer?" Keep it direct.

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LinkedIn is a hallway, not an inbox. The register is shorter, more conversational and far less tolerant of a pitch dropped into a connection request.

The cardinal error is treating LinkedIn as email with a smaller box. Copy-pasting your cold email into a DM reads as automation and engineers spot it instantly. Each channel earns its own version of the message.

EMAIL VS LINKEDIN, SAME PERSON

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Not a smaller box for the same words. Each channel earns its own version of the message.