Blank LinkedIn requests get accepted, but asking a question kills the conversation
A developer in his mid-20s from a small European country, with a physics and computer science , worked as a at two US startups that never really took off before starting a solo MarTech business. He knows his but lacks real connections in the space, so he has been trying to network on LinkedIn. He found that blank connection requests (no message) get accepted far more often than ones with a note, and a genuine hand-written comment on someone's post occasionally gets a reply.
Yet the same people who constantly post and pitch their own content go silent the instant he asks a question or offers a risk-, treating it like spam. Unlike people who blast 50,000-100,000 , he researches every cold lead individually before reaching out.
Key points
- Blank connection requests were accepted more often than requests with a note
- Hand-written comments on posts occasionally got a response back
- Asking a question or offering a caused people to go silent
- He researches each cold lead individually instead of mass-blasting emails