Results
What good looks like on LinkedIn, weekly.
We help owners who are tired of big promises see what good looks like at 100, 150 and 200 requests a week, so they know what to expect before they spend a penny.
Everyone in this industry quotes a best month and calls it an average.
These are ours. The honest numbers, before you pay for them.
40,525 requests. Every one sent by a person.
They include the bad weeks. If a number below looks unimpressive next to someone else's landing page, that is the point. This is a four-month rolling window, April to July 2026, on client accounts. Not a case study, not our best client, not a projection.
- 40,525Connection requests sent. Human-sent, on client accounts from April to July 2026
- 31.4%Accepted. Roughly 1 in 3 says yes to the connection
- 200Sent per week at Gold pace. Silver runs 150, Bronze 100
What we count
A conversation is a person who accepted your connection and then replied to the thank-you message with something worth picking up. Not an impression. Not a like. Not a follower. A reply is where a conversation gets the chance to start, not proof that one has.
These are benchmarks, not promises. We do not guarantee a number, because the biggest variable is not our sending. It is whether the target is right and whether you pick up the replies that come in. A tight ICP in a market that knows you will beat these figures. A broad list in a market that has never heard of you will sit under them.
Run the arithmetic on your own account.
Our acceptance rate applied to 200 requests a week, the Gold pace. Round numbers, no flattery. Bronze and Silver scale down in proportion.
Where the funnel ends is deliberate. We report replies, because that is the last thing we control. Anyone quoting you a meetings number is quoting you someone else's work.
200 requests a week
~63 new connections a week
Every reply lands in your inbox
You take it from here
Who you target beats what we write.
The same message to a different list produces a different result. These are the acceptance rates we target by list type. If a list runs below its floor, the search is wrong and we rebuild it rather than send harder.
| List type | Who is on it | Target acceptance | Warming needed |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Recent Independent | Just left corporate. Fractional, advisor, principal, under a year in the role. | 45%+ | Low |
| The Framework Creator | Expert founders with a named methodology, already thinking about visibility. | 40%+ | Low |
| The Senior Seller | Business development and sales leaders where personal credibility is the pipeline. | 35%+ | Moderate |
The Recent Independent is the highest intent list we run. They feel the gap between who their profile says they are and who they have become, and they feel it today. That urgency is why the number is higher. It is a trigger, not a trick.
The shift looks the same across industries.
Different markets, different language, same gap. What changes is not the funnel. It is what your buyer needs to see before they will reply, and that changes what we fix first.
Financial services & advisory
Trust is slow and pressure is fatal.
What your buyer needs: calm, deliberate, long-term. Any urgency triggers a professional immune response and the conversation dies on the spot.
What we change: the pull matters more than average here. No calendar links, no scarcity. The first message has to feel like a conversation, never a sales meeting.
Expect: Slower acceptance, higher quality. Conversations that take longer to open and go further when they do.
Technology & SaaS
Deep credibility, weak narrative.
What your buyer needs: to understand the current venture, not the logo you left. Technical founders often have a profile that reads as engineering history.
What we change: we surface the tension between past credibility and current positioning. The gap is almost always that the profile tells the old story.
Expect: Acceptance around the average, with reply quality lifting sharply once the profile stops selling the last company.
Management consulting
Not a credentials problem.
What your buyer needs: specificity. Strong frameworks and narrow specialisms are already there. The problem is being seen in the rooms where the decision happens.
What we change: generic positioning fails outright. We go precise on the niche, because vague questions get vague replies.
Expect: Our strongest list type sits here. Framework creators accept at 40% and above when the search is built tight.
Legal & compliance
Visible without appearing to sell.
What your buyer needs: discretion. Conduct rules restrict marketing, and peers and regulators are watching how you show up.
What we change: we separate visibility for the right audience from broad marketing. The problem was never being found by everyone.
Expect: Lower volume by design and a longer runway. The ceiling here is professional, not algorithmic.
Recruitment & talent
A big network that does nothing.
What your buyer needs: a reason to treat you as a specialist rather than another inbox filler. Everyone in this market is already connected to everyone.
What we change: we turn network size into relationship depth. Volume was never your problem. Relevance was.
Expect: Acceptance at or above average, and the sharpest gains from profile work rather than sending.
Professional services & coaching
Referral pipeline gone quiet.
What your buyer needs: proof before contact. They will research you, decide, and never tell you they looked.
What we change: the profile has to do the convincing while you are asleep, then the outreach only has to open the door.
Expect: Around the average across the board. The variable is whether your niche is narrow enough to search.
When things actually happen.
Month one buys you a foundation, not a pipeline. If someone promises you conversations in week one, they are sending to a list nobody approved.
Month 1: Build and warm up
- ICP built from your seed clients
- Profile mapped and updated
- Sales Navigator search approved
- List built and signed off
- 5 to 15 requests a day, randomised
Expect a foundation and a quiet inbox. That is correct.
Month 2: Ramp and first replies
- Volume up to your tier's pace, 100 to 200 a week
- Warm thank-you on every acceptance
- Replies inside about three days
- Every reply lands with you
Expect the first real replies. What they become depends on how fast you pick them up.
Month 3 onward: Full rhythm
- Up to 200 requests a week, sustained
- Around 250 new connections a month at Gold pace
- Every reply waiting in your inbox
- Weekly update, no vanity metrics
Expect a channel that runs whether or not you had a good week.
Four numbers we will not quote you.
Meetings booked
We do not control your calendar, your qualifying, or your close. Quoting a meetings number would mean taking credit for your work.
Revenue generated
Between a conversation and a contract sits your pricing, your proposal and your judgement. None of that is ours.
A guaranteed result
Anyone guaranteeing outreach outcomes is either automating, exaggerating, or planning to blame you in month three.
Impressions and followers
They feel like progress and pay for nothing. If you want a bigger follower count there are cheaper ways to buy one.
Clients, in their own words
“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.”
“Since then, we’ve been seeing 7 to 10 warm conversations a month from people who’ve been following our journey.”
“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”
Questions people ask before they start
Want these numbers run against your market?
Start with your Visibility Score, then bring your seed clients. If the target is not there, we will tell you before you pay us.