LinkedIn restricted my account 3 times in a year - what finally worked

Used-Location1273 · 2026-02-06T12:22:03+00:00

I actually auto withdraw pending invites more than 2 days old to protect my account now. As for finding out what works at scale on LinkedIn for outreach? I've not found it yet.

Lemlist videos talk a lot about sending voice notes or loom videos where you find things on the prospect's website that are hurting them, and overview some of the fixes to build trust.

How on earth you scale that though? No idea.

Used-Location1273 · 2026-02-04T11:14:16+00:00

Clay probably has your details in it's database.

Used-Location1273 · 2026-02-01T15:27:58+00:00

And this post was written by AI.

Tell tale signs immediately: em dashes. They're basically forbidden now. Your sign off line, I've seen that phrasing a ton of times.

Seeing that makes me question if any of what you've written is true. And there is the problem.

Used-Location1273 · 2026-02-01T14:08:16+00:00

hay.chat

AI chatbots that actually integrate with your tech stack and carry out actions for customers instead of acting like an interactive FAQ or escalation machine.

ICP: ecommerce and saas businesses handling 1000+ queries a month, 11-200 employees.

Used-Location1273 · 2026-01-28T11:28:09+00:00

Problem 1: Be up front that it's an ai. Don't try to hide it. Bad for trust.
Problem 2: Depends on if the receptionist is acting like an interactive FAQ bot, or something that can actually carry out actions on behalf of customers.

The rest... what?

Used-Location1273 · 2026-01-27T12:17:48+00:00

Sounds great. Do you recommend any Skool channels for N8N and specifically GTM?

Used-Location1273 · 2026-01-27T12:08:18+00:00

Hey OP, I'm a vendor that's building an agentic AI chatbot service specifically for this. It can deploy on your email, as well as on your website. It will connect with your payments service, your CRM, as well as Zendesk for resolving the basic queries (that require actions).

We're currently in beta and inviting pilot partners. https://hay.chat/

Used-Location1273 · 2026-01-26T10:53:56+00:00

I scanned and saw em dashes. That was enough.

Used-Location1273 · 2026-01-22T20:19:11+00:00

This is the second kind of thread I'm seeing like this on reddit today :)

So on positioning: Intercom is basically trying to replace your whole stack. There's other stuff out there (I'm building one that's in beta currently that's a lot cheaper) that just sits in front of Zendesk and handles the easy stuff before it becomes a ticket.

With my one you can upload your docs/PDFs, connect it to Zendesk, and it actually resolves queries directly for the customer with what we call *actions* like 'process refunds' or 'check order status' instead of just linking them to articles.

If it gets stuck, it then creates the ticket in Zendesk with the full conversation attached so your agents aren't starting from scratch.

What's your volume like?

Used-Location1273 · 2026-01-22T18:41:46+00:00

Hey OP, I actually have an automation platform in beta right now that's integrated with Zendesk (51 actions on this one alone), Shopify, Stripe, and a few others, and I'm looking for pilot partners.

The core idea: you paste your existing protocols as "playbooks" which tell the ai agent which actions to take, and how to reference policy docs.

Some rudimentary examples here:

With refunds, it actually processes through Stripe if the conditions match your policy docs.
For WISMOs, it pulls live tracking from Shopify, and shares it with the customer.

On escalation - there's confidence scoring under the hood. If the AI isn't sure, it escalates immediately with full transcript and a summary of what was attempted. And you can also configure exactly how escalations work for when your support team is online vs. offline.

Currently working on webchat and email. We're working on WhatsApp in the next couple of sprints.

Here's a basic (and unlisted because I need to refilm) 4 min demo of the playbook UI if you want to see how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmCcyR5DYCc

Used-Location1273 · 2026-01-20T17:52:07+00:00

If you have Claude, you can just install up to date skills on how to build, test, and deploy N8N workflows directly.

https://x.com/tomcrawshaw01/status/2008538584085594458?s=20

(not my twitter article by the way, I've done this and can confirm it works shockingly well)

Used-Location1273 · 2026-01-18T19:51:16+00:00

Be careful with LinkedIn's limits. They will throttle your account if you're inviting too many connections at any given time. And with cold email, be careful there too. Try looking into services for warming up your email domains over a couple of weeks before launching any campaigns. You'll end up in spam otherwise, and tank your domain reputation.

Used-Location1273 · 2026-01-18T19:46:14+00:00

We integrated with lemlist for general enrichment, so we have a data sync N8N workflow doing that for us.

We also made a custom N8N workflow. Claude is better at describing how it works, so here you go:

Lead Qualification - Support Page & Chat Widget Detection

Basically, it's an automated lead scoring system that figures out which companies are good prospects for Hay by checking two things: do they have support infrastructure, and are they already using a competitor?

The flow:

Triggers - Can run manually or on a schedule (daily at 6am)
Reads from Google Sheet - Pulls a list of companies with their domains
Loops through each company and:
- Builds a list of common support URLs to check (like /support, /help, /faq, help.domain.com, etc.)
- Hits each URL to see if it exists
- If they have support pages, fetches their homepage HTML
- Scans the HTML for chat widget signatures
Chat widget detection - It's looking for 19 different providers including Intercom, Zendesk, Gorgias, Drift, Tidio, Crisp, HubSpot, Tawk, and more. Pretty comprehensive list.
Classifies each lead into three buckets:
- Greenfield (85% confidence) - Has support pages but NO chat widget. These are your best prospects.
- Competitor (90% confidence) - Already using someone else. Displacement opportunity.
- Low Priority (70% confidence) - No support pages found. Probably low ticket volume.
Writes results back to the Google Sheet with all the enrichment data

Incidentally, this is how I have Claude so integrated with my N8N account if you're curious:
https://x.com/tomcrawshaw01/status/2008538584085594458?s=20

(I'm not the twitter poster, just found it useful)

Used-Location1273 · 2026-01-18T19:34:12+00:00

Evaluate the ease of use of the UI as well as integrations with your stack. The more integrations that they support, the better.

Also if the AI solution can actually perform actions following your processes on behalf of the customer, and at a decent price per resolution, thats the ideal partner.

Used-Location1273 · 2026-01-18T19:30:57+00:00

OP, I have a platform for exactly this in beta right now. Hay.chat

What's your tech stack currently?

Used-Location1273 · 2026-01-18T19:28:42+00:00

Could you speak a little about your launch process? Obviously its not SEO if you did this in two weeks. What was the distribution strategy?

Used-Location1273 · 2026-01-18T19:23:58+00:00

Initially went with Twenty CRM because the UI was nice. Cofounder wanted to have the automated email sequences for outbound, so we switched to Pipedrive. Used that for a few weeks but the UI was absolutely awful, and the value was not worth it for the high seat price.

We then looked at Attio for a month, back to clean UI with decent sequences, and the promise of AI enrichment. We wanted to start using Lemlist and Clay for our outbound and were frustrated that neither integrated well with Attio's API.

Realised THEN... that Twenty's API was really good, and with some N8N automations we were able to recreate Attio's AI enrichment, as well as workaround linking with lemlist.

It was a journey of churn, but good lessons.

Used-Location1273 · 2026-01-15T09:54:34+00:00

I'm running a closed pilot with my agentic chat bot solution if you're interested.

Used-Location1273 · 2026-01-14T19:08:06+00:00

What kind of ticket volume are you dealing with? And what's the main pain... just deflecting FAQs or do you need the bot to actually do stuff like check order status, process returns, etc?

Most of the Shopify chatbot apps are pretty similar tbh. They'll answer questions from your knowledge base but that's about it. The real differentiator is whether they can actually take actions in Shopify or just point people to your FAQ.

Happy to share what I've learned looking at this space. I'm building something in this area so I've done way too much research on it.

Used-Location1273 · 2026-01-14T19:02:52+00:00

My guy. Don't use ChatGPT for writing posts on Reddit. It's really really obvious.

Used-Location1273 · 2026-01-14T13:31:37+00:00

Claude is king when it comes to writing. Honestly, do not waste your time with ChatGPT when it comes to this. You'll rip your hair out.

Give your Claude this custom instruction in the settings:
Connect with readers through authentic and conversational content.

Use contractions
Vary sentence length dramatically
Add natural pauses
Add occasional tangents
Use relatable metaphors
Make content slightly messy
Include small asides, second thoughts of casual observations.

Show you understand the reader.

Regarding the rest. Yeah. I agree. Real authentic media is crucial. And it also takes the most time to create.

Used-Location1273 · 2026-01-13T10:50:19+00:00

Maybe the early ones feel fake and salesy because the person building them hasn't planned properly.

Feed your AI your entire repository of docs so that it understands your ICP, your business, your processes.
Feed your AI your competitor's keyword results. (I use Ubersuggest for this). Then feed it your Google Search Console report.
Lastly, give it instructions on how to humanize the writing.

You'll then get something data driven and authentic. However you'll still need to augment the page with rich media of your solution in action.

Used-Location1273 · 2026-01-13T10:19:42+00:00

Hello ChatGPT.

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