Kenneth Nel, The Hoodie Guy, leaning on his desk in a black TDC hoodie

Bronze, from The Digital Collective

Rebuild your LinkedIn network safely.

We help founders who are new to LinkedIn, or have let it go quiet, rebuild their network safely with 100 hand-sent requests a week, so the right people know who they are.

$550 a month, plus your own Sales Navigator seat from LinkedIn. No contract. Cancel any time.

You are the expert in the room. Online, nobody knows you exist.

If they don't know you exist, they will never do business with you.

Every month the account stays quiet, the people who could refer you forget a little more of what you do, and the ones who do look you up find a profile from a job you left years ago. Trying to fix it yourself with an automation tool is the one way to make it worse.

Grow your LinkedIn network with TDC

Profile

Your profile starts the conversation

Before the first request goes out, we rewrite your headline and About section. When people check you out, they see who you help.

Part of set-up. About 14 days from your start call.

“If you're looking to quietly strengthen your presence online, especially in a senior or specialist role, Kenneth is well worth speaking to.”

Dan Partridge, Director of reliability engineering. LinkedIn recommendation, November 18, 2025.
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Your set-up

  • Headline rewritten
  • About section rewritten
  • Identity verified
  • Sales Navigator ready

Content

Give them something to find

Every new connection will look you up. Posting about once a week, 4 times a month, shows them someone active and worth replying to.

Posting isn't part of Bronze. You write and post your own. If you'd rather not, ask about Content Starter on your call.

“...we’ve been seeing 7 to 10 warm conversations a month from people who’ve been following our journey.”

Austin Shrum, Co-founder, search visibility. LinkedIn recommendation, July 1, 2025.
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Our advice

4posts a month
1a week

Outreach

100 of the right people, every week

A trained operator sends 100 connection requests a week from your account, by hand. No bots, no scripts, no scheduling tools.

A person sends every request by hand, at a human pace. No bots, no automation software.

“I was targeting the highest-level executives at Oracle and was getting at least eight or nine responses out of the 30 new connections that I made immediately.”

Steve Lewis, LinkedIn coach for tech executives. LinkedIn recommendation, April 17, 2026.
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31.4%accepted

Average across 40,525 hand-sent requests, April to July 2026, on accounts at full speed (200 a week). A benchmark, not a Bronze promise.

Engagement

Every yes gets a thank-you

Everyone who accepts gets a thank-you written for your positioning. Replies land in your inbox, and you take it from there.

Plus 1 report a month, in plain language: what happened, and why.

“It has resulted in my connections increasing together with engagement which then has led to having more client and introducer calls.”

Dave Symondson, Property development finance. LinkedIn recommendation, March 4, 2024.
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Every acceptance

  • Thank-you sent, in your voice
  • Replies go to your inbox
  • Monthly report, in plain language

How Bronze grows your LinkedIn network

Bronze is done-for-you LinkedIn outreach that gets your name back on LinkedIn, safely. No automation. No ghostwriting. Nothing on your account behaves like a bot. It replaces doing it yourself, and it replaces automation tools, which break LinkedIn's rules.

  1. Tell us who you want to meet

    Verify your identity, get Sales Navigator, and tell us who your best clients are. About 14 days.

  2. We send 100 requests a week by hand

    An operator sends every request from your account, and a thank-you to everyone who accepts.

  3. You take the conversations

    Replies land in your inbox, and you get a plain-language report every month.

Everything in Bronze, on your LinkedIn

  • 100 connection requests sent by hand every week by a trained TDC operator, never automated.
  • 1 thank-you message, written for your positioning, sent to everyone who accepts.
  • 1 report a month, plain language: what happened, and why.
  • When paired with Content Starter: a seat at the monthly coaching session, 60 minutes on Google Meet with one of our coaches.

What it looks like six months in

A network that includes the people you actually want to work with, replies arriving each week from people who accepted a request you didn't have to send, and a profile that holds up when someone checks.

Who Bronze LinkedIn outreach is for

Bronze is for you if

  • Your LinkedIn network is under 5,000 connections, or you're still working toward your first 1,000.
  • You've been off LinkedIn, or barely active, and want to build back up carefully rather than all at once.
  • You want proof this works on your own account before committing to anything bigger.

It isn't for you if

  • You want someone to sell for you. We grow your LinkedIn network and the replies come to you. Winning the business is still yours.
  • You want calls booked for you. We start conversations, and you take them from there.
  • Your network is already over 5,000 and active, and you want more volume. Silver or Gold fits better.
  • You want it automated. Every request is sent by a person, at 100 a week on purpose.

Real authority, treated like a bot.

We've watched founders with 20 years of real authority get treated like bots on LinkedIn because their account looked abandoned. And we've had our own accounts restricted, years ago, by trying automation tools. We stopped. Every request is sent by a person now.

  • 40,525connection requests sent by hand across our clients, April to July 2026
  • 31.4%of those requests accepted
  • 47public LinkedIn recommendations for Kenneth
  • 17,300people follow Kenneth on LinkedIn

The 31.4% average comes from client accounts running at full speed, 200 requests a week. It is a benchmark, not a Bronze promise. Bronze runs at 100 a week on purpose: it's the safe rate for an account with a thin or dormant history.

What clients say

Word for word, from Kenneth's public LinkedIn recommendations.

“And if you are someone who says, “I will never do this myself. Help! Manage my LinkedIn presence,” he has you covered there too.”

Anne ScottlinBusiness and life strategist, December 8, 2025

“if you are feeling a little overwhelmed with LinkedIn or you think its just another social media platform full of hot air, self promotion and bluster - speak to Ken.”

Steve BridsonSales confidence coach, April 17, 2025

“Coming from industry, I was quite 'old-fashioned' when it came to social media, lacking both knowledge and motivation to engage with it.”

Marco SchlimpertHuman intelligence advisor, November 18, 2024

“I started working with Kenneth as Linkedin felt like a black hole of hell and I wasn't getting the traction I needed to grow my business”

Nikki FinucanTransformation and systems, September 10, 2024

“there are some things that you just DON'T know (or want to know... like Sales Navigator...), and in both these instances - Kenneth is my go to person.”

Josefine WannerBusiness coach, February 28, 2023

Questions people ask about Bronze LinkedIn outreach

Will this get my account flagged or banned?

If you've watched an account get restricted, that fear is fair. Bronze sends 100 requests a week, half of what our full-speed accounts send. Every request is sent by hand by a trained operator, from your own account. No bots, no scripts, no scheduling tools. Nobody can promise LinkedIn will never restrict an account. If LinkedIn flags anything on yours, we stop and tell you.

What's the monthly coaching session?

It's for people running both Bronze and Content Starter. Once a month, 60 minutes on Google Meet, hosted by one of our coaches. You bring the conversations that came in and the ones that stalled, and work through them with the coach and everyone else on the call. Bronze on its own doesn't include it.

Why does this cost less than Silver or Gold?

Bronze is deliberately smaller: fewer requests, one reply, one report. It exists to prove the approach works on your account before you commit to anything bigger.

How long before this actually starts working?

About 14 days to get everything set up on your end: your ideal client profile, Sales Navigator, identity verification. The first real reply usually comes the week after that.

Does Bronze include posts?

No. Bronze grows your network. We suggest you post about once a week so new connections find you active. If you'd rather not write the posts yourself, Content Starter does that, sold separately.

Will it pay for itself?

One new client usually covers a year of Bronze. And there's no contract, so every month has to earn the next.

How much does Bronze cost?

$550 a month. Clients outside the UK pay in US dollars with no UK VAT. UK clients pay in pounds, plus 20% UK VAT.

Am I locked in?

No. There's no contract. Bronze is billed monthly in advance through PayPal, and you can cancel any time.

Is this automated?

No. Every request is sent by hand by an operator. No bots, no scheduling tools, no scripts. We've watched an account with over 30,000 connections and followers disappear completely, profile, company page, everything, three months after switching to an automated tool. That's not a risk we take with your name.

Do I need Sales Navigator?

For Bronze, Silver and Gold, yes. An operator runs your outreach through it (Core plan, $119.99/month direct from LinkedIn), so those tiers can't start without it. Content and Content Starter don't need it on their own. If Sales Navigator didn't work for you before, that's almost always because nobody showed you how to run it properly. That's on us this time.

Is Sales Navigator included in the price?

No. Your Sales Navigator Core seat is paid to LinkedIn separately, at $119.99 a month.

Do I need to verify my identity on LinkedIn?

Yes, on the network growth tiers, if you haven't already. It's a free, quick step LinkedIn offers, and it measurably improves how many people accept your connection requests. An unverified profile looks more like a bot to the person receiving the request.

What do Bronze and Content Starter cost together?

$1,100 a month, billed as two $550 lines. We call it the Starter Pair: 100 requests a week, 4 posts a month and a monthly coaching session.

Show me results for people like me.

Across our client accounts, 31.4% of hand-sent requests were accepted from April to July 2026. Our clients' own words are on LinkedIn, with names and dates.

Read the client stories

Bronze grows reach. Content Starter holds it.

Content Starter ($550/month) makes sure every new connection sees something current when they check your profile, 4 posts a month, built from one short interview. Buy both and you're in the monthly coaching session with one of our coaches.

How we keep your account safe

  • A VPN set to your region

    Every session runs through a VPN set to where you work, so LinkedIn always sees your account used from your part of the world.

  • Your time zone, your working day

    We work your account during your normal working hours, so its activity keeps your usual rhythm.

  • A person, by hand

    A person sends every request by hand, at a human pace. No bots, no automation software.

  • Always talking

    We stay in touch on WhatsApp between calls, so questions get answered quickly and nothing waits on an email.

Tick the three boxes, then start Bronze.

If they don't know you exist, they'll never do business with you. Start the conversation.

It's free, takes a few minutes, and measurably improves how many people accept your connection requests.

An operator runs your outreach through it, so Bronze can't start without it. If Sales Navigator didn't work for you before, that's almost always because nobody showed you how to run it properly. That's on us this time.

$550 / month

Billed monthly in advance through PayPal. No contract. Cancel any time by email. Your Sales Navigator Core seat is paid to LinkedIn separately.

Tick all three boxes above to start Bronze.

$550 a month, billed monthly in advance through PayPal. No contract. Your Sales Navigator Core seat is paid to LinkedIn separately.

Prices are in US dollars, with no UK VAT for clients outside the UK. UK clients see pounds plus VAT. The 31.4% acceptance figure is an average across 40,525 hand-sent requests from April to July 2026, on accounts sending 200 requests a week. It is a benchmark, not a promise of results.