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33% -- linkedin connection rate for LinkedIn outreach (internal account, criteria-based filtering) (2025-05)
Standard ICP criteria filtering on LinkedIn Sales Navigator (active in past month) historically yielded a 33% connection rate.
- Baseline historical performance over many years on an internal account
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33%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2025-05
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B
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75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Pipelineology
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Tier B
https://www.pipelineology.com/ditch-the-ai-hype-a-better-way-to-win-consulting-clients/ ↗
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Ditch the AI Hype: A Better Way to Win Consulting Clients, Pipelineology | Done For You LinkedIn Outreach & Content
Ditch the AI Hype: A Better Way to Win Consulting Clients
Gary hosts a LinkedIn session arguing that AI is overhyped for consulting client acquisition and that the advantage is being a real, relevant human rather than using automated “personalization.” He outlines a non-AI-dependent pipeline: build …
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Pipelineology
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Methodology
First-party internal test; connection rate from cold outreach to people matching ICP criteria who logged into LinkedIn in the past month; consistent over many years per speaker
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Industrymarketing
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LinkedIn outreach (internal account, criteria-based filtering): 33% linkedin connection rate. Source: Pipelineology (2025-05). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/linkedin-connection-rate-standard-filtering-2025
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/linkedin-connection-rate-standard-filtering-2025" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>33%</strong> -- linkedin connection rate for LinkedIn outreach (internal account, criteria-based filtering)<br><small>Source: Pipelineology (2025-05) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/linkedin-connection-rate-standard-filtering-2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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