The highest-leverage change we make to most outbound programs isn't a better subject line. It's adding a second channel. When a prospect has seen your face on LinkedIn before your email arrives, you stop being a stranger - and reply rates multiply.
The cadence, day by day
- Day 1 - Email #1, the relevant opener. Under 90 words, one idea, one soft question. No links, no attachments.
- Day 3 - LinkedIn: profile view + connection request. A short personal note on the same theme. Never "I sent you an email". This is also the moment your own profile gets read, so it needs to be built for the visit.
- Day 6 - Email #2, the value follow-up. A new angle: an insight, a benchmark, an example. Still short.
- Day 10 - LinkedIn DM (for accepted connections). Casual and human - this is where many of the best conversations actually start, and it is why we favour connection requests over InMail.
- Day 15 - Email #3, the graceful break-up. Routinely the highest-reply step of the entire sequence.
The three rules that keep it working
- Every touch knows about every other touch. The moment someone replies anywhere - email, DM, even a comment - the rest of the sequence stops and a human takes over. Nothing torches goodwill like a follow-up after an answer.
- Human-like limits on LinkedIn. Gradual ramp-up, conservative daily caps, personalized notes. Account safety beats one extra touch, always.
- Channels carry different jobs. Email does the reasoning; LinkedIn does the familiarity. Don't copy-paste the same message into both - the prospect sees both, and it shows.
By touch three you're not a stranger anymore. That's the entire trick.
Whose accounts?
Both models work. We can run the play on your team's existing LinkedIn accounts - your faces, your network compounding - or land you dedicated profiles, configured and warmed for your niche, when you'd rather keep personal accounts personal or need more capacity.
This is the short version of the play. If you want the reasoning behind each interval - and how to stretch it into a longer sequence without becoming noise - read the full multichannel cadence guide, or see how we run it as Cross Outreach.
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