opinion Linkedin outbound

[Bogdan]

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?

 

[Khu]

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.

HI Sami,
I think your intro can be a little more catchy.. make it so you get a reply guaranteed.

 

[Khu]

So domain spam is becoming prevalent on Linkedin. It means too many people are already doing it.
PS: I don't use Linkedin so I have no idea.

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??

 

[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.

 

[1008202]

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!

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

 

[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.

 

[1008202]

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.

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

 

[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.

 

[Lord Antares]

When I view a company at linkedin, the members are blanked out and unclickable. Do I need to have connections and a developed profile to be able to click on them?

 

[Jay Ha]

When I view a company at linkedin, the members are blanked out and unclickable. Do I need to have connections and a developed profile to be able to click on them?

You need to grow your connections. This way you will be able to view their connections and so on.

 

[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.

 

[Jay Ha]

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

I thought I'd wait till I know how many agencies are interested in the names. This way I'd know how strong my position is before quoting a price. Also, I have no idea how much should I price it. No similar previous sales that I can find. Unless someone here knows of a similar sale.

 

[1008202]

I use my own personal account to do outbound.

Well, I'll track my emails and the succeed % is quite similar between LinkedIn and email. But so far I have made more sales via email.

Of course LinkedIn is much more easier place to chat with potential buyers if they are really active at LinkedIn, but email is more professional way in my opinion.

Do you also use personal accounts for email outbound?

 

[Domain Monk]

when i try to send invite it says "they are out of my network"

 

[Fox1990]

when i try to send invite it says "they are out of my network"

i think that's something to do with the privacy setting that the person you're trying to set an invite to has set up.