opinion Linkedin outbound

[Bohdan]

Hi to all.
Time to time I'm doing some outbound at LinkedIn. And I found one embarrassment. After successful connection with possible end-users, they never reply. Maybe they just confirm connection and ignore what I'm offering?

 

[Sami Ketolainen]

Here is one example.

I find a potential company who could benefit from my domain name. I search people and try to find people who are responsible for "leadership" (CEO's, founders, managers etc.) in that company. If they don't have any leadership persons in LinkedIn, I'll try to find information about them at Google and contact them via email.

So, I'll sent a connection request to example Founder of X company. I'll include this message with connection request:

Hello xxxxx, I'm contacting you because I have xxxxxxx domain name for sale.

Regards,
Sami Ketolainen.

When the founder accept's my request, I send a message where I tell more about that domain name, how they can benefit from that domain name and how it can be used. There is not one right way to make a perfect sales pitch - You have to find information about the people and company who you contact so you have information about them and you can create really personal sales pitch and of course the sales pitch message doesn't look like copy and paste work.

 

[creataweb]

Ok but what if your picture looks like this?

Will it still work?

 

[Sami Ketolainen]

Do you include a message when you send a connection request?

I always include a small message when I send connection request, once they accept my request, I send my sales pitch to them. Around 30-40% of CEO's, managers etc answers to my sales pitch.

 

[Sami Ketolainen]

What do you suggest for outbound sales for your domain. I haven't had luck with Linkedin, Twitter or even emails!
What else to do??

Then there is one solution:

Get better names.

 

[ecomslice]

Yeah....i am too thinking to start outbound thing.It will be great if @Sami Ketolainen shares some material on this.

there are tons of threads on here with great info, well worth digging for. I was just hoping to see his version as he mentioned. but they may not be willing to add further as most have gone indepth in the other threads. I wish you good fortune on the journey. start digging / reading. I have 100s of hours reading on here and still figuring it out.

 

[Sami Ketolainen]

So you use your own personal Linkedin profile for such outbound marketing or have a different account setup for domaining?

I use my own personal account to do outbound.

 

[Sami Ketolainen]

Something like this:
Hello, Name. What is stopping you? Pricing? You can always negotiate the price.

Here is my example for the follow-up message when I notice that someone has accepted my request:

Hello (Name of the person).

The reason why I did contact you straight was that I'm offering domain name xxxxxx (dot) com to your company.

I checked out information about your company and noticed that your company is offering xxxxxxxx services and this domain name fit's perfectly to your services which you are offering. (Write down here advantages what the potential buyer would get if they acquire the domain name).

I always keep my messages pretty short, there is no need to write down a 5 page long story about the domain name, just useful facts. If the name is good, I'm 99% sure you will get responses to your messages!

 

[Sami Ketolainen]

Doing this for free. It's good to have an professionally made LinkedIn account, since many people check out your profile if you sent a connection request.

If your profile picture is example just a logo of your company, many people thinks that was is this profile, why this person doesn't use own photo as profile picture.

 

[Sami Ketolainen]

Ok but what if your picture looks like this?

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Will it still work?

I think you know the answer by yourself.

 

[baldrick]

Hi to all.
Time to time I'm doing some outbound at LinkedIn. And I found one embarrassment. After successful connection with possible end-users, they never reply. Maybe they just confirm connection and ignore what I'm offering?

Try with Linkedin Groups. Can be very useful.

For example, If you have domain about medical devices, type into Linkedin Search "medical devices", then click on "More" (menu below), then "Groups" on drop down menu. Choose group with the best connection with your domain and request to join. When (if) your request is approved, you can send your post, and every member of group can read it. No need to be premium member for this.

EDIT: As a regular member, you can send the personal massage only to connected people. Premium members can sent certain number personal massages on monthy basis (don't know how many).

 

[wizard]

Maybe it is as if your just spamming them domains for sale we get loads of random messages daily which we delete all depends on what the domain is and who your connecting with...

 

[Sami Ketolainen]

How does one talk about advantage, since search traffic doesn't really matter anymore and type-ins are usually nonexistent?

If their current domain is example EastFloridaBusinessBrokers dot com and I offer them a domain name BusinessBrokers dot com, I'm 100% sure they will get advantage from that name.

It seems like you didn't get my point.

 

[Jay Ha]

I have 19yo MarketingXXXXXXX.com and XXXXXXXMarketing.com where XXXXXXX is a country name. I got both names off closeouts. They used to be parked and not listed on any domain marketplace. I am currently approaching marketing agencies in that country on LinkedIn and through e-mail outbound. It is gonna be my first name (or in this case it is couple of names) that I'm going to be aggressive on the outbound.

For now, I am sending custom connection requests that include a small text which explains that both domains are for sale. Send around 20 connection requests, 5 accepted but didn't reply while 1 replied asking for the price but didn't accept the invitation. Will not send a price before I finish sending the invitations to ALL established marketing agencies in that country.

I think this process is gonna take a while but will bring a result, hopefully. Let's see how it goes.

 

[Sami Ketolainen]

I have 19yo MarketingXXXXXXX.com and XXXXXXXMarketing.com where XXXXXXX is a country name. I got both names off closeouts. They used to be parked and not listed on any domain marketplace. I am currently approaching marketing agencies in that country on LinkedIn and through e-mail outbound. It is gonna be my first name (or in this case it is couple of names) that I'm going to be aggressive on the outbound.

For now, I am sending custom connection requests that include a small text which explains that both domains are for sale. Send around 20 connection requests, 5 accepted but didn't reply while 1 replied asking for the price but didn't accept the invitation. Will not send a price before I finish sending the invitations to ALL established marketing agencies in that country.

I think this process is gonna take a while but will bring a result, hopefully. Let's see how it goes.

You can always include him the price if that person ins't even accepted your connection request. Some people at LinkedIn will choose carefully who they accept tot their network.

I have couple of similar situations and both of them ended for sale. I don't usually share my sales here at NamePros, since most of the buyers want's to write down NDA agreement and I want to focus on my own "business".

I would advice you to quote a price to that person who ask'd it.

 

[ecomslice]

Do you include a message when you send a connection request?

I always include a small message when I send connection request, once they accept my request, I send my sales pitch to them. Around 30-40% of CEO's, managers etc answers to my sales pitch.

May I see a rough mock copy of your sales request . thank you either way.

 

[Sami Ketolainen]

You're welcome.

 

[Bohdan]

Do you include a message when you send a connection request?

I always include a small message when I send connection request, once they accept my request, I send my sales pitch to them. Around 30-40% of CEO's, managers etc answers to my sales pitch.

Yes. I do. I always include a short note with an offer. Here is mine:
Hey Name. Got the xxx.com for sale for your business. Would this name be of interest? All the best!

And one more, when I have a similar domain name in another extension:
Hello Name, I'm currently offering for sale XXXX.com for your business and thought you may like to know of its availability as you own XXXX.org. Price is $xxx. Would this name be of interest? All the best!

 

[Sami Ketolainen]

Thanks. My problem with email is that you can't always find it and cannot guarantee its deliverability. I am aware that you can scrape emails from linkedin profiles but only if they are public.

I use www.voilanorbert.com to find right email addresses and I use www.mailtrack.io to track down when potential buyer open's email etc.

 

[wot]

You guys paying for this or just doing it inside the account for free?

Free, you can upgrade but only found it a little useful and they will give you a free trial which I cancelled when payment became due.

 

[Sami Ketolainen]

I just thought that maybe there's more than just that

Of course it's good if you have some detailed information that the domain name has QUALITY backlinks etc since the weaker backlinks doesn't bring any value to your domain name.

But usually, the end-user knows what they are looking for. If the name sounds great and is what they are looking for, they are gonna probably purchase it and work to get the domain name to top rankings at search engines.

 

[Domain_savvy]

Yeah....i am too thinking to start outbound thing.It will be great if @Sami Ketolainen shares some material on this.

 

[Domain_savvy]

Here is one example.

I find a potential company who could benefit from my domain name. I search people and try to find people who are responsible for "leadership" (CEO's, founders, managers etc.) in that company. If they don't have any leadership persons in LinkedIn, I'll try to find information about them at Google and contact them via email.

So, I'll sent a connection request to example Founder of X company. I'll include this message with connection request:

Hello xxxxx, I'm contacting you because I have xxxxxxx domain name for sale.

Regards,
Sami Ketolainen.

When the founder accept's my request, I send a message where I tell more about that domain name, how they can benefit from that domain name and how it can be used. There is not one right way to make a perfect sales pitch - You have to find information about the people and company who you contact so you have information about them and you can create really personal sales pitch and of course the sales pitch message doesn't look like copy and paste work.

So you use your own personal Linkedin profile for such outbound marketing or have a different account setup for domaining?

 

[Domain_savvy]

I use my own personal account to do outbound.

Cool... thanks for all the info Sami.

 

[Lord Antares]

This thread is timely because I've just now been looking into this.

Do you think linkedin messages might work better than emails? Emails can be tricky to find and are a gray area to say the least.

What do you think about sending them messages without connecting with them? Is there a reason to connect?

Has anyone had success doing this?

EDIT: Do you think it's important to edit and fill your profile?