B
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85%
85% -- email open rate for LinkedIn InMail messages (2021)
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85%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2021
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Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Sources (2)
Neal Schaffer
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Tier B
https://nealschaffer.com/linkedin-inmail/ ↗
Source Article
What is a LinkedIn InMail and How to Leverage Them
LinkedIn is a great place for networking, whether it be for your career or for business, but what happens when you want to contact someone that you are not connected to on LinkedIn? Regular messaging is available only between people who are connected to you. Enter the LinkedIn InMail, the internal L…
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Neal Schaffer
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Source: LinkedIn, reported in the article.
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LinkedIn InMail messages: 85% email open rate. Source: Neal Schaffer (2021). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/linkedin-inmail-open-rates
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