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23.09.2025

LinkedIn Outreach in 2025: How to Find and Convert B2B Clients

LinkedIn has remained a key platform for finding B2B clients, partners, and investors for several years now. However, by 2025, simple mass outreach no longer works - algorithms have become smarter, and users are more selective in how they respond to connection requests.

To get results from LinkedIn outreach, you need to act strategically: segment your audience correctly, build value-driven communication, and use automation tools without risking account restrictions.

In this article, we’ll cover what’s changed on LinkedIn in 2025, how to build an effective outreach funnel, and which tools actually work.

What’s Changed on LinkedIn in 2025

  • Feed Algorithms and Invitation Limits

    LinkedIn increasingly promotes content that sparks engagement, while the number of outgoing connection requests is limited (typically around 100 per week for standard accounts).
  • New Sales Navigator Features

    Sales Navigator now offers improved search filters and lead recommendations. But success still depends not on the number of filters - but on how precisely you use them.
  • Content as a Warm-Up Tool

    Regularly posting expert content increases response rates to your connection requests and messages. Without warming up your audience, conversion rates drop significantly.

How to Set Up Search in Sales Navigator

  • Geo, Industries, Job Titles

    Start by defining your target regions, industries, and decision-maker roles. The narrower the segment, the higher the conversion rate.
  • Boolean Search (Examples)

    Use logical operators:
    ("Marketing Director" OR "Head of Marketing") AND ("B2B" OR "SaaS")
    This allows you to find relevant specialists across multiple title variations.
  • Segmenting Leads into Batches of 1,000

    Break your database into smaller lists - this makes it easier to personalize messages and test different hypotheses.

Building an Outreach Funnel

  • Connection + Warm-Up

    Don’t pitch right after connecting. Give your audience time to warm up through content and casual engagement.
  • Lead with Value, Not a Sales Pitch

    Your first message should offer value - a relevant insight, link to useful material, or a quick checklist - not a sales proposal.
  • Move to a Call/Zoom Meeting

    Only suggest a call once interest has been shown. Conversion to meetings and deals is significantly higher at this stage.

Automation and Safety

  • Tools: Dripify, Expandi, Lemlist

    These platforms help automate invitation and message sequences, monitor responses, and manage your outreach funnel.
  • Respecting Limits and Avoiding Bans

    Stay within LinkedIn’s daily limits, mimic human behavior, and include delays between actions to avoid detection.

Real-World Example (Mini Case Study)

  • Client

    SaaS platform (B2B, UK)
  • Challenge

    Low response rate (2%) and no booked calls
  • Solution

    Database segmentation, revised messaging, content-based warming strategy, Dripify automation
  • Result

    Response rate increased to 11%, 12 meetings booked in the first month